AFTER A DAY OFF, THE SOX ARE BACK IN ACTION WITH THE YANKEES AT FENWAY. GARRETT CROCHET STARTS ON THE MOUND FOR BOSTON. HIGH SCHOOL LACROSSE PLAYOFFS…#9 GARDINER AT #1 YORK LATE FIRST QUARTER… .GARDINER TAKES A 2-1 LEAD AS REMINGTON LAMOREAU FIRES POINT BLANK…. YORK DOMINATES THE REST OF THE QUARTER, EVAN ANASTAS THE ONE-TIMER TO TIE IT… WILDCATS SCORE FIVE STRAIGHT, QUINN WALENTA TO BRETT ACETO… YORK 20 GARDINER 7 IN CLASS C BOYS.. NYA BOYS HOSTED THE NORTHERN MAINE CO-OP FROM AROOSTOOK COUNTY. PANTHERS FELL BEHIND 2-0 BUT THEN GOT THE OFFENSE GOING..ZACH LEINWAND IS ABLE TO SNEAK THE BALL PAST THE GOALIE FEW MINUTES LATER, MAX SIEBERT RACES IN AND TIES THE GAME UP… NYA 17 NORTHERN MAINE 3 CLASS ‘C’ PLAYOFFS….#1 WELLS HOSTING #8 ERSKINE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER, KENDALL MAXON FEEDS CAITLIN ROONEY…JUST BEATS THE BUZZER, 5-0….WARRIORS 2ND QUARTER, A MILESTONE FOR ROONEY THE JUNIOR NETS HER 100TH CAREER GOAL WELLS 13 ERSKINE 2 WARRIORS MOVE ONTO SEMIFINALS. IN CLASS ‘A’ GIRLS, 13TH SEEDED CAPE ELIZABETH TRIED FOR ANOTHER UPSET AGAINST CHEVERUS. CAPERS LED 7-4 AT THE HALF, BUT SYDNEY BRUNELLE MAKES IT A ONE GOAL GAME IN THE THIRD QUARTER… CAPE RESPONDS EARLY IN THE FOURTH. CAMPBELL DEGEORGE MAKES IT A 10-8 GAME. THEN WITH CHEVERUS SERVING A PENALTY, PHOEBE EVANS PASSES TO CAMI JOHNSON FOR THE GOAL CAPE ELIZABETH 11 CHEVERUS 10 IN SOUTHERN A SOFTBALL, TOP SEEDED CHEVERUS HOSTED KENNEBUNK. STAGS LOAD THE BASES WITH TWO OUTS IN THE FIRST AND ABBY KELLY HITS THE BLOOP SINGLE TO KNOCK IN A PAIR OF RUNS. THAT IS MORE THEN ENOU

It was a celebratory day in the East Hills on Friday morning. Complaints about water damage and collapsing roofs are starting to turn into renovated homes.

Rising Tide Partners has turned some of the abandoned properties into rentals, but on Friday, it cut the ribbon on the first for-sale home with the community.

Dr. Patricia Saunders-Madison, the vice president of the HOA involved, heard the complaints from people in this neighborhood over the years.

“It was a good house in the middle – and two abandoned on each end – so a lot of the water coming through the roof was coming into their homes,” Saunders-Madison said.

In came Rising Tide Partners, and Kendall Pelling, its executive director.

“They needed that real estate capacity. They needed somebody who would come and take risks with them,” he said.

The first of those for-sale homes was revealed Friday. The house includes a renovated kitchen, a bathroom and even a deck. 

“I’m happy that we’re here today,” Dr. Saunders-Madison said.

Pelling says 84 of the 167 properties in this HOA are abandoned.

“Now we control them and the community controls their destiny instead of an absentee investor controlling their destiny,” he said.

Rising Tide has turned some of these into rentals. He says they want to get them all to good owners and keep them at a low cost.

“A homebuyer can have a monthly mortgage payment of $650 to $700 a month,” Pelling said.

Part of the next steps include making lot improvements, like to sidewalks and the parking area. Pelling said those projects will be up for bidding this summer.

The hope is for the home that was renovated for sale to be available by the end of the summer as well.

Pelling also said that Rising Tide applied for a low-income housing tax credit from the state for funding to allow for continued renovations and help.

Dr. Saunders-Madison remembers how this place used to be. She also knows that the work is not over, but she and others are pleased with what’s become of it.

“We’re not there yet. We’re not there yet – but it’s coming, it’s coming along,” she said.

CHICAGO — Utah Valley men’s soccer signee Lewis Knecht was named the Utah Boys Soccer Gatorade Player of the Year, the organization announced in a press release on Thursday.

The award, which honors the top high school athletes for their successes on the field, in the classroom, and in the community, adds to the long list of honors Knecht has received in his high school career. Earlier this week, Knecht was also named the UHSAA Male Athlete of the Year — the top athlete in the state regardless of sport — and Utah’s Mr. Soccer for the second year in a row.

Knecht becomes the sixth Wolverine to be named Utah Gatorade Player of the Year, joining Lucas Cawley, Thomas Loomis, Aidan Dayton, Carter Johnson, and Trevor Walk.

Knecht, a member of the 2025 signing class that will be joining the Wolverines this fall, led American Fork HS to its second straight state championship last month, the team’s fourth in school history.

Knecht built upon a stellar junior campaign — during which he also won the Mr. Soccer award by scoring 20 goals and assisting on 17 more — by scoring 24 goals and adding 12 assists as a senior in 2025. 

Knecht and the Wolverines will play the inaugural season at UCCU Stadium this fall.