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Oxford Hills base runner Hunter Tardiff safely dives back to first before Lewiston s Damon Bossie can put a tag on him during a pickoff attempt. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
PARIS For the second consecutive weekend Oxford Hills completed a walk-off win against a stout opponent.
Saturday saw Oxford Hills suddenly end a 3-2 win against Lewiston in the bottom of the seventh in the first game of a doubleheader. The Vikings then rolled to a five-inning, 12-0 victory in the second game at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.
After earning a walk-off walk in a victory against Bangor a week ago, the Vikings were ready to play in the seventh inning again after enduring a solid pitching performance from Lewiston’s Josh Murphy through six innings.
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USM s Lauren Merrill, an Oxford Hills graduate, speaks with head coach Sarah Jamo in the circle during a game earlier this season. Cullen McIntyre photo
Madison Day and Lauren Merrill’s Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School softball careers didn’t end the way they hoped.
None of them want this spring season their new team to end.
Kirsten Pelletier, a former Bates College standout, is playing for the University of Southern Maine as a graduate student this season.
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For Day and Merrill, this is their first year on the University of Southern Maine softball team. Same for Pelletier, but it’s also her last, having graduated from Bates in 2020 and utilizing a fifth year of eligibility as a graduate student at USM this season. Each of them has played a key role on a Huskies team that is in the midst of a memorable season, as has sophomore Hannah Shields of Buckfield, who didn’t get a season last year because of COVID-19.
Statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control on Monday showed Androscoggin County had a rate of 645 cases per 10,000 residents. Oxford’s rate is third among the counties with 547 cases per 10,000. Franklin County’s rate is 400 cases per 10,000.
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The state average is 448.3 cases per 10,000.
In Oxford County, Maine CDC outbreak investigations are ongoing at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, N.D. Paper mill in Rumford, Guy Rowe School in Norway, Rumford Elementary School, Sacopee Valley Elementary School and Sacopee Valley Middle School, both in Hiram, Norway Health and Rehabilitation Center and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris.
In Androscoggin County, outbreak investigations are ongoing at many schools, three nursing homes, a business and a church. The list includes Auburn Middle School, Bruce Whittier Middle School in Poland, Clover Health Care in Auburn, D’Youville Pavillion in Lewiston, Durham Community School, Edward Little High School an
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State investigates rising COVID-19 outbreaks in Oxford County schools, businesses
The rate of cases is rising in Oxford and Androscoggin counties at schools, workplaces and gathering spots.
By Bonnie WashukSpecial to the Sun Journal
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Patrick Boland of FEMA holds open the tent flap to the mobile vaccination unit at Oxford Casino where Cynthia Venoit set up to five shots April 12.
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Statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control on Monday showed Androscoggin County had a rate of 645 cases per 10,000 residents. Oxford’s rate is third among the counties with 547 cases per 10,000. Franklin County’s rate is 400 cases per 10,000.
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