Every May in Maine, the same ritual plays out. A bunch of suburban Class A programs with charter buses and awesome fields and assistant coaches who have assistant coaches start clearing throat space for their inevitable June coronation. And every May, somewhere in central Maine, a team most of the state cannot find on a map quietly goes 11-0 and breaks the spreadsheet.
This year, the spreadsheet is already broken. With tournament brackets seeding inside the week, the Heal Points leaderboard, the GameIQ state championship odds, and the longest active winning streaks in every spring sport are all pointing at the same demographic: small schools, Class C, Class D, places with one stoplight and a lumberyard.
Let's shift gears and actually look at who is running the table.
Maranacook/Winthrop Girls Lacrosse Is The Whole Story
The single biggest favorite to win a state championship in any spring sport, in any class, anywhere in Maine, is a Class C co-op out of Readfield. Maranacook/Winthrop girls lacrosse is 11-0, sitting on a Heal Points number of 131.8, which is the highest mark in the entire spring season across every class. GameIQ gives them a 40.4 percent chance to win Class C, which sounds modest until you realize no other team in any class in any spring sport cracks that ceiling.
They are also the defending Class C champs, which is the part that keeps the rest of the state up at night. Last June's final ended Maranacook/Winthrop 10, Traip Academy 9, on a Stella Stewart goal with 7.1 seconds left. Stewart put up 40 goals and 31 assists in 2025 before authoring that ending. Alice Ferran scored 43 goals last year. Mya St. Pierre added 22 goals and 12 assists. They all came back.
On May 21 in Readfield, they put 15 on Mt. Ararat and gave up 5. St. Pierre had four goals. Celia Bergdahl had four goals. Stewart had two goals and four assists. Ferran had three and three. That is what a 131.8 looks like in practice. It looks boring if you're rooting for the other team.
Washington Academy And Richmond Are Doing It In Baseball Too
Down in East Machias, where you go to get to the rest of Washington County, Washington Academy baseball is 12-0 with a Heal Points of 99.1 and a PIR of 98.2. They have outscored opponents 138 to 12 during the run. GameIQ has them at 25.6 percent to win Class C, the largest share in the class. They also happen to be the team that lost last year's Class C final 9-1 to Monmouth Academy, which is the kind of thing a roster remembers in February.
The coach has been blunt about it. "Our goal is to win a state championship," he said. "We've been talking about this for several years."
The roster is built to back the talk. Junior Trevor Shimabukuro is 5-0 with a 0.47 ERA on the mound and is hitting .462 with 10 RBI and 14 stolen bases. Junior James Welch is 3-0 with two saves, a 0.71 ERA, has never lost a varsity game pitching, and is hitting .528 with 13 RBI and 14 steals. Senior Parker Cates is 1-0 with a five-inning two-hitter in a 13-0 win over Bucksport and is hitting .429 with two home runs and nine RBI. Colby Moholland is hitting .469 with a home run, 16 RBI, and 12 stolen bases. Daniel Gardner has 16 RBI. Jayden Mahan is at .389 with 10. George Welch, the sophomore second baseman, has crossed the plate 18 times. There is no soft spot in the lineup.
In Class D, Richmond is 11-0 with a 65.3 Heal Points and a 98.3 PIR, and GameIQ has them at 30.3 percent to win their class, which is the highest figure of any baseball team in any class in the state.
Bucksport Softball Is Out Here Posting Cricket Scores
Bucksport softball is 13-1, with the streak at 13, a Heal Points of 117.5, and a PIR of 98.1. Recent results include an 18-0 win over George Stevens and a 17-1 win over Mt. View. GameIQ likes the Golden Bucks for Class C at 24.5 percent. The other Class C softball streakers are not exactly chopped liver either, with Dirigo at 12-0 and Mattanawcook at 11-1, but Bucksport is the one putting up the scoreboard-breaking numbers.
The Class A Counter-Argument, Because Fair Is Fair
This is not a small-school dunk piece. The big schools have their own pile of zeroes in the loss column.
Cheverus softball is 13-0, the unanimous No. 1 in the Varsity Maine poll, sitting on a 114.7 Heal Points and a 98.3 PIR. Ace Addison DeRoche has struck out 17 in one game and 11 in another, and homered for two runs while she was at it. Hailey Lamontagne and Abby Kelly also went deep in a recent rout of Windham. GameIQ has Cheverus at 22.9 percent to win Class A.
Falmouth boys lacrosse is 10-0 with a 122.2 Heal Points and a 28.4 percent shot at Class A. Thornton Academy boys lacrosse is 11-0 at 114.5. These are real teams with real numbers. They are not the story this spring only because Maranacook/Winthrop exists.
This Isn't David And Goliath. It's Just Math.
Here is the reframe. It is easy to write this as a David and Goliath thing, the little co-op from central Maine looking down at the suburban juggernauts. That is not actually what the Slate and the Bracketology and The 207 are saying. What they are saying is simpler. A team that returned three players who combined for 105 goals last spring, that won last year's state final on a buzzer-beater, and that has not lost a game this year, is the favorite. It would be the favorite if it played out of Cumberland County. It just happens to play out of Readfield.
Brackets seed next week. We will see who shows now that the the snow finally quit for good.
Ayuh, that's the spring.