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December 29, 2007
New records for a new year

Greely's Becky O'Brien and Cony's Bethany Dumas set meet records in two events Saturday at the USM New Year's Relays in Gorham. O'Brien won the girls shot put (48-1 1/2) while Dumas won the girls pole vault (11-3).

In the boys mile, Sintayehu Taye turned in winning time of 4:24.04, ahead of Falmouth's Ethan Shaw and Lewiston's Mohamed Noor. Taye, a former Portland High standout who is a senior at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass., ran as an unattached competitor.

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December 18, 2007
Bowdoin Relays

Saturday at the Bowdoin Relays in Brunswick, four area track athletes had qualifying marks for one of two national meets in March – the Nike Indoor National meet in Landover, Md., and the National Scholastic Indoor Classic in New York.

Peter Slovenski, Brunswick: 15-2, boys pole vault
Becky O'Brien, Greely: 47-3, girls shot put
Dan Smith, Thornton Academy: 55-6, boys shot put
Brigham Michaud, Cheverus: 51-7, boys shot put

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Rachel is in her fourth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A Maryland native and a former college soccer and softball player, she covered high school and college sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

She grew up watching the NHL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Georgetown basketball and the Baltimore Orioles and is a confessed sports nut. Her interests include reading and movies, going to the gym, Motown and '70s R&B music and following the New York City tabloids.

Married in July, she and her husband Tommy are avid Steelers and Kansas Jayhawks fans. Their toughest decision as newlyweds has been "NESN or ESPN?"



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