Guenther, Weymouth selected for Lobster Bowl

A pair of defensive linemen from the region were selected for the 31st annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl, scheduled for Saturday, July 18 at Thornton Academy in Saco (the coronavirus pandemic has the game questionable at the present time). Dexter Regional High School’s Haedyn Guenther and Isaac Weymouth of Foxcroft Academy were both named to the East squad which features the best recently graduated high school senior football players across all classes. Participants are nominated by their coaches and then selected by the coaches from each Lobster Bowl side.

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LOBSTER BOWL PLAYER — Dexter senior Haedyn Guenther, left with classmate Colton Tibbetts, gets ready to douse head coach Andrew Shorey following Dexter’s overtime win vs. Foxcroft last fall. Guenther has been selected for the 2020 Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl in July at Thornton Academy in Saco.

Foxcroft Academy head coach Danny White will lead the East squad, and Steffi Victoria of Foxcroft was named to the East cheering team as a flyer. White is serving as head coach for the first time but has served as an assistant previously and he played in the 2003 game.

Players from the East and West will take to the field after training camp at Foxcroft Academy. Earlier this year Foxcroft Academy and the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl board of directors announced a new five-year agreement for the Dover-Foxcroft secondary school to continue to host the annual Lobster Bowl Football training camps. This will be the second five-year deal the two groups have reached.

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PONY CONTINGENT — Foxcroft Academy senior Isaac Weymouth blocks for junior Logan Martin this past season. Weymouth was selected for the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl, on the East team to be coached by Pony head coach Danny White. Foxcroft’s Steffi Victoria will be a member of the East cheering squad.

Since 2015 Foxcroft Academy has been the destination for the Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic training camps. More than 110 student-athletes and coaches from both the East and West teams are housed on campus in July and will hold three practice sessions each day as they prepare for the game.

In 2019 the West won 60-14 to improve to 20-10 all-time in the series.

The Lobster Bowl is sponsored by the Maine Shriners, with 100 percent of the net proceeds from the game benefiting the 22 Shrine Hospitals for Children across the US, Canada and Mexico. The Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Game, which operates under the motto, “Strong legs run … so that weak legs may walk,” was created over three decades ago to raise money and to help raise awareness for the expert orthopedic and burn care facilities available to children who desperately need this specialized care — regardless of their family’s ability to pay.