Yarmouth Knocks off TA

Let's start with the Game of the Day where Yarmouth, the 2-time defending champs (but in B), made their biggest statement of the year by upsetting the defending A champs from Thornton Academy.

They'll take on an unbeaten Falmouth team that handled Deering 16-6.

Over in C, #3 Maranacook upset Gardiner to set a date with #1 NYA. That'll be the same matchup on the girls side, only with the seedings flipped.

In Class A, Cheverus put a scare into #1 Kennebunk, but Anna McCarron's goal in overtime punched the ticket to the title game for the Rams. They'll take on TA, who knocked off Windham.

TA girls end Windham’s reign, advance to states for first time

SACO—The future is now for the Thornton Academy girls’ lacrosse team. A team that many thought was a year away, instead is now just one win away from the biggest prize of all. Wednesday evening at Hill Stadium, the second-ranked Golden Trojans took on No. 3 Windham, the

Hoffer's High School SportsMichael Hoffer

Varsity Maine has a couple of articles giving you a paragraph preview of each of the state games--pretty handy if you're helicoptering into the State Game and want to have an idea of what to expect.

There's the usual storylines: Addison DeRoche probably isn't giving up any runs. Bangor coach Dave Morris is retiring. Medomak and Gardiner scored a million runs when they met earlier this year. Gorham has been dodging bullets, Matrix-style, all playoffs. Monmouth and WA are a rematch. The basics.

The Maine baseball finals are Saturday. Here’s something to know about each game

Varsity Maine reporters dish on the four championship matchups.

Centralmaine.comSteve CraigStaff Writer

And you would think such an article wouldn't be controversial, but can I introduce you to social media in 2026?

I guess they're mad that the article mentions Gorham's lucky break of the rainout against Falmouth, but you can't tell the story of the Class A tournament without that tidbit. It was kind of a big deal.

Regardless, it's the newspaper, not an Instagram account that only exists to hype your team. Their job is to be a neutral party that covers the high school baseball tournament, not make you feel good about the path your team took to the title game.

Here’s the important things to know about the Maine softball finals

Varsity Maine reporters throw strikes about the 4 championship matchups.

Centralmaine.comDrew BonifantStaff Writer

Friend of the podcast Toby Nelson has a new job as the Director of Athletics and Alumni Affairs for Foxcroft Academy, as announced on Facebook.

This is a great move for Foxcroft and if you'd like to know more about Toby, check out his appearance on the podcast a couple of weeks ago!

The NY Gaming Commission reported that for the week ending June 14th (that'd be the Finals), they lost $48,515,979 in online gambling. Forty eight million dollars! In one week! I hadn't really thought of it at the time, but the Knicks winning is kind of a perfect storm for a sports book. In the preseason, the Knicks were +900 to win the whole thing, 4th best odds. That's not crazy in and of itself. The Nuggets were +1800 the year they won.

But, the Nuggets aren't in the same category of draw, obviously. Knicks fans have long been untethered to reality, normally to comedic effects, but that also means they bet a lot of money on their team to win.

The key reason sportsbooks are rooting against the Knicks in the NBA Finals

Sportsbooks were rooting for the Knicks before the NBA Finals. Not anymore.

New York PostMalik Smith

In what seems like a perplexing proposal on the surface, Major League Baseball is looking to make some large changes.

The league’s proposed framework would be a significant drawdown of the way the draft has operated for years. High school players would no longer be eligible to be selected. In fact, anyone under 20 years old by September 1st of the draft year would not be eligible, so that would take many college and junior college players off the table as well.

So this is the big one. Taking away the eligibility of high school players means no more phenoms making the bigs at 18 (or Joe Nuxhall), which is a shame.

I always thought one of the benefits of having MLB's minor league system was that you had time to really develop players you could draft as high schoolers and teach them to be professionals as they rode buses with no AC through the American South. If you take all those high schoolers out of the minor league equation, that has to change the dynamic of low-A. Really, it has to severely damage the minor leagues as a whole, which feels like a short-sighted move.

There's more, like an international draft and the ability to trade draft picks, so it's not completely terrible, but I have to think the Player's Union is going to push back pretty hard on all of this.

MLB Proposes Significant Changes To Amateur Draft

The league wants to cut costs anywhere they can, including in the draft.

MLB Trade RumorsDarragh McDonald

The annual Waldoboro Day 5K is Saturday morning, organized by yours truly.

It's a small race in the Waldoboro Village that features hills and is probably the only 5K you'll ever run that has a whoopie pie aid station (courtesy of Moody's Diner).

I'll be leaving there and going immediately to St. Joe's for the title games. Come hang out and run (or walk)!

Finally, Mexico really needed a save late last night against Korea. And they got one for the ages.

There's only 2 games on the schedule today, both Class B lacrosse title games.

On the boys side, we have #3 York against #4 Marshwood. It's not often you get 3 vs 4 in a title game, but here we are.

Marshwood knocked off #1 Greely 11-10 to reach the title game and are showing that they're better than their schedule allowed them to show during a regular season in which they were largely dominant.

York had a tougher path during the regular season and dropped 5 games, but if you look at those 5 games, it's not hard to see why. They lost to a quite good Cape team early, then lost to the teams ranked #1 (Falmouth), #2 (Yarmouth, twice), and #3 (TA). That's an absolutely brutal schedule for a Class B team.

The Model's picks for the rest of today's games are after the jump.