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Ty Boone scored four touchdowns, including runs of 65 and 84 yards, and second-seeded Fryeburg Academy avenged a regular-season loss as it defeated No. 3 Lawrence, 34-13, in a Class B North football semifinal Friday night in Fryeburg.

Boone also caught a 27-yard TD pass from Benny Arnason and ran 19 yards for a touchdown, helping Fryeburg (6-3) advance to the regional final against undefeated Cony (9-0).

Lawrence (5-5), which beat Fryeburg 47-35 in the regular season, started the game with a 6-minute drive that resulted in a 3-yard touchdown run by quarterback Evan Bowers.

Boone quickly answered, though, with a 65-yard run that tied the game at 7-7. Boone then made it 13-7 with a TD catch in the second quarter.

Fryeburg padded its lead in the third quarter with a 12-yard TD run by Merrick Iacozilli and an 84-yard burst by Boone, who zigzagged his way to the end zone.

Bowers threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to Keegan Littlefield in the fourth quarter before Boone scored his fourth TD.

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HERMON 30, NOKOMIS 6: Sam Hopkins opened the scoring with a 38-yard run, then added an 85-yard kickoff return as the third-seeded Hawks (8-1) beat the sixth-seeded Warriors (5-4) in a Class C quarterfinal in Hermon.

Tyler Corson also scored twice, catching touchdown passes of 16 and 15 yards from Ethan Curtis. Ethan Garner added a 31-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

Nokomis scored on a 47-yard pass from Gabe Leighton to Seth Bowden in the second quarter, cutting its deficit to 20-7, but Hopkins answered for Hermon on the ensuing kickoff.

The Hawks advance to face No. 2 Leavitt or No. 7 Foxcroft Academy in the semifinals.

WINTHROP/MONMOUTH/HALL-DALE 28, OAK HILL 13: Senior quarterback Jacob Feith threw a pair of touchdown passes and ran for a score as Winthrop/Monmouth/Hall-Dale dispatched Oak Hill 28-13 in a Class D South football semifinal Friday in Winthrop.

The top-seeded Ramblers (9-0) advance to face sixth-seeded Morse (6-6) in the regional final next week. The Shipbuilders knocked off No. 2 Dirigo 28-22 on Friday.

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Winthrop opened the scoring with Feith’s first TD pass, a 17-yard completion to Brody Adams on third-and-goal from the 17 with a couple minutes left in the first quarter.

Fourth-seeded Oak Hill (6-4) tied the game on Colton Burnham’s 3-yard TD run a couple minutes into the second quarter, but the Ramblers responded and took a 13-7 lead with a 15-yard Ross Fichthorn touchdown run that was set up by a long completion from Feith to Adams.

Winthrop relied heavily on its running game, as usual, but went to the air again for its third score. On fourth-and-9, Feith found Ben Porter in the end zone for a 29-yard touchdown pass midway through the third quarter.

Feith scored Winthrop’s final TD on a fourth-down QB sneak from the 1 to give the Ramblers a 28-7 lead with 9:48 left in the game.

After Oak Hill quarterback Braden Dubuc led the Raiders down the field with his passing and running, Burnham scored his second touchdown on a 2-yard run with 6:51 to play.

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