Sports

MADAWASKA– It is spring sports season again, meaning the start of baseball and softball in the St. John Valley.

While the birds are chirping and with the snow finally melted, the students at Madawaska High School are gearing up for the baseball/softball season.

FORT KENT - On Monday morning, march 5, Ryan Anderson pulled into the Lonesome Pine Trails at 8:10:16, followed nine minutes later by Mario Racine.  Fiddlehead Focus will have more details later this morning.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY – As darkness makes its way across Aroostook County, ten mushers are slugging it out as they follow their teams from Maibec to the Two Rivers Cafe in Allagash, a 56.5-mile stretch of the 250 miles that make up the Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Race.

Mario Racine is maintaining his front position, leading bib No.12 Ryan Anderson by 17 minutes.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY – At 9:07 a.m. on Sunday morning, March 4, race officials are predicting Mario Racine, who was the sixth musher in the Can-Am Crown 250 to leave the starting gate on Saturday morning on Fort Kent, will be the first to arrive at the checkpoint in Maibec, deep in the North Maine Woods.

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FORT KENT –The Can-Am Crown Sled Dog races launched on Saturday morning, and race officials have announced unofficial results for both the Pepsi Bottling Can-Am 30 and Willard Jalbert Jr. Can-Am 60, with the husband and wife pair of Marco Rivest taking the top spot in the 60-miler and Anny Malo taking the win in the 30.

FORT KENT - Every year, a wide track of snow appears, as if by magic, down Main Street in Fort Kent, Maine, just in time for one of the most amazing sporting events in Aroostook County.    

As many as 90 mushers will travel down the track on sleds which teams of dogs pull in the Annual Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Races.  This video, which Zack Thibodeau shot,  shows part of how that temporary ribbon of snow manages to appear every year.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA/Fort Kent - The University of Maine at Fort Kent men's basketball team has received and accepted one of eight at large bids to participate in the 2012 United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Men's Basketball Division One Basketball Championships March 6 - 10 Hosted by Penn State Fayette on the Eberly Campus in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.