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Maine high school suspends football operations, hazing investigation ongoing

Lisbon High forfeited its game against Mountain Valley Friday

Gary Adornato

Football operations at Lisbon High School (Maine) have been suspended while the school deals with a hazing investigation involving its football team. The Greyhounds also forfeited their game with Mountain Valley, scheduled for Friday.
Football operations at Lisbon High School (Maine) have been suspended while the school deals with a hazing investigation involving its football team. The Greyhounds also forfeited their game with Mountain Valley, scheduled for Friday. / Lisbon High School

In the midst of a hazing investigation, Lisbon High School (Maine) has suspended its football operations at the direction of the Lisbon School Department, multiple local media outlets in Maine are reporting.

The news broke shortly after Mountain Valley High announced, via a social media post, that Lisbon had forfeited Friday's scheduled game between the two schools.

">WMTW News 8 reported on a letter it obtained which explained the decision to suspend football operations to the Lisbon school community. The letter, which reportedly came from Lisbon School Department Athletic Director Chris Spaulding, stated that the school's football activities would be suspended "until further notice."

On Thursday, Lisbon police revealed, also to WMTW, that they were investigation a hazing incident at the school.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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