The back of the Portland High football coaching staff's baseball caps spell the letters W-I-N. Friday night the Bulldogs did just that with a 14-0 victory over Scarborough to give Mike Bailey an early birthday present. Bailey celebrates his 53rd birthday Saturday.

Keep an eye out for these three football games tonight ...

South Portland at Biddeford, 7 p.m., Waterhouse Field

Can South Portland win its third game of the season? A South Portland win tonight will equal the program's total in 2004.

Lewiston at Mt. Ararat, 7 p.m., Topsham

Will anyone be able to stop Lewiston's Wesley Myers? The Eagles face one of Eastern Class A's top backs in Myers, who can crack the 1,000-yard mark tonight. Myers has averaged 224 yards a game, including a 374-yard effort Sept. 7 in a 34-18 win at Messalonskee.

Scarborough at Portland, 7 p.m., Fitzpatrick Stadium

Will the 0-4 Bulldogs finally get a win? Portland High hasn't won a game since Oct. 21, 2006 - a 44-23 win over South Portland.

.. a fan shouting from the stands at the Scarborough soccer game, after three players collided on the field:

"Hey, you can't do that! That's 12 to 14 months for assault!"

Erskine Academy of South China became the lastest KVAC field hockey team to defeat Belfast. On Tuesday, the Eagles handed the Lions (5-4-1) a 2-1 loss in South China.

Belfast has lost its last three games to Maranacook, Waterville and Erskine. Earlier this season, Leavitt ended Belfast's 54-game winning streak.

The South Portland School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the high school library to appoint a high school's new boys basketball coach.

No, that's not a mistake on the Westbrook boys soccer roster. The Blue Blazes have five players with the first name Zachary or Zachariah on this year's squad – Zach Johnson, Zach Souza, Zach Good, Zach Russell and Zach Huggard.

The name Zachary, by the way, was the 22nd-most popular baby name in 1990 and 1991 and 16th most-popular in 1992, according to the Social Security Administration.

If you're a Marshwood football fan, chances are you've heard the Notre Dame fight song more than the Golden Domers themselves in the first few weeks of the season.

The Marshwood marching band plays the "Notre Dame Victory March" after every Hawks touchdown; in their first four games of the season the Hawks have scored 16 touchdowns, including three Friday in a 21-7 win over Thornton Academy.

Meanwhile, before Saturday's kickoff against Michigan State, the Fighting Irish have scored only 13 points in its first three games of the season – a touchdown, a point-after kick and two field goals.

Deering tailback Jack Heary wasn't about to underestimate the Portland football team, even after the Rams rallied to defeat the Bulldogs 33-16 on Thursday at Fitzpatrick Stadium.

"I'm telling you, they played a great football game," Heary said of the Bulldogs, who led 16-14 in the third quarter. "If they played the game they played (Thursday), they would have won their first two games."

The YouTube phenomenon has swept the country, and if you do a little digging you're bound to find a video featuring one of your teammates or classmates.

YouTube defines itself as a video-sharing Web site. Have you scouted the competition on YouTube? Have you posted a video involving high school sports on the site? Have you seen a video involving a Maine high school sports team or athlete?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, shoot me an e-mail with your name and phone number at rlenzi@pressherald.com, for a story we're working on about the power of the Internet and high school sports.

The No. 9 jersey shared hands Tuesday night at Yarmouth. Dan Gerges, who is listed as No. 9 on this year's boys soccer roster, had a hand in two of the Clippers' four goals but handed his jersey off to backup goalie Alex Planer, who played on the field in the final minutes of a 4-0 win over Gray-New Gloucester.

With a 2-1 win over Marshwood on Monday, the Gorham girls soccer team extended its unbeaten streak to 39 games. Falmouth, the defending Class B champion, is right behind the Rams; with a 2-0 win over North Yarmouth Academy on Monday, the Yachtsmen extended their unbeaten streak to 29 games.

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, the national record for consecutive games without a loss in girls soccer is 158, set by St. Thomas Aquinas in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., from 1994-2001. St. Thomas Aquinas also holds national record for consecutive wins – 119, from 1994-1998.

It may only be Week Three in high school football, but Morse Coach Jason Libby coined it well: Separation Week.

A win or a loss now for any team could decide the eventual playoff field, especially if it becomes a tight race in the final days of the regular season. The Shipbuilders proved the theory in 2006; despite a 3-4 regular season record, Morse made the Eastern Class B playoffs with the help of a win over Leavitt in Week Three.

The Westbrook girls soccer team is sporting pink soccer socks for its home games, as a way to promote breast cancer awareness, and the Blue Blazes have made the cause their team fundraiser this season.

"We see it somehow every day as adults," Westbrook Coach Vincent Aceto said. "It could be 'my mother-in-law had it,' or 'my grandmother had it.' Just to make an impact somehow, it's what we're doing."

Some statistics to consider in regards to breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society:

Nick Gaddar put Tony DiBiase's 17-year coaching career at South Portland into perspective.

"Coach DiBiase has been coaching at South Portland my whole lifetime," the South Portland senior said. "To me, he is South Portland basketball."

Jana Kenney became part of a unique group Saturday when she kicked a field goal and an extra point in the Dexter football team's 16-6 win over Mount View.

That's right, SHE. Kenney, who plays field hockey for Margaret Veazie at Dexter, joined the small sorority of female football players. Among that group is Katie Hnida, who was the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I football game. Hnida kicked two extra points for the University of New Mexico in a 72-8 win over Texas State on Aug. 30, 2003. Hnida is now an author and a motivational speaker.

Many athletes had to withstand a debilitating heat on Saturday, but Skowhegan football player Zack Whiting had one M.O. in order to play through the oppressive conditions.

"Water, water, water," said Whiting, who scored four touchdowns and ran for 349 yards in a 34-15 win at Mt. Ararat.

And in Topsham, fluids were aplenty. So was a portable fan, perched near the Mt. Ararat bench and surrounded by several football players in the minutes before the opening kickoff.

It's Week 2 of the high school football season, and hopefully the blowout games - and there were quite a few of them last week - will taper off as the season progresses.

The PPH staff chose Deering at Westbrook as this week's "Place to Be" but there are a few matchups that provide intrigue:

The Leavitt field hockey team beat Camden Hills to the punch this week, handing Belfast its first loss in more than three years. Before the season, if any team had the best chance to end Belfast’s 54-game winning streak it would have been the Windjammers, who host Belfast on Friday in Rockport.

Camden Hills Coach Janet Holmes-Jackson has built her program into a regional contender and, after all, she is her father’s daughter – her father, Allen Holmes, is in his 35th season at the helm of the Belfast field hockey program.

Summer speculation had Cody Zane transferring to NYA for athletic purposes, and whispers of the “R-word” were even abound - recruiting, a problem that plagues any private school’s athletic program. (In regards to recruiting, the problem with that argument is that you rarely ever see recruiting allegations brought against the private school teams that lose.)

But Paul Betit’s story on Zane and Taylor Gorman - both among the top high school boys soccer players in the state - sets the record straight. Zane saw he could fulfill his academic potential at the Yarmouth school and chose to transfer from Mount View in Thorndike before his senior year.

The fall sports season kicked off this weekend and with that comes the Press Herald’s fall sports previews over the course of this week. While we hope it’s comprehensive enough, there are always a few stories that you can’t put into a confined space.

You'll hear the H-word mentioned around Cape Elizabeth and it's football team quite a bit this season, but it's not so much about the weather. The Capers defensive corps calls itself a "Hurricane." Capers quarterback Jim Bump explained on behalf of his teammates after Friday's 39-0 win over York.