Wil Kramlich

Sun Journal

Wil Kramlich is a sports reporter who has lived in greater Lewiston/Auburn his whole life. Born in Lewiston, Wil grew up in Gray, where he played sports and fell in love with the sports section of the newspaper. He was a three-sport athlete at Gray-New Gloucester High School before participating on the track & field team at Westfield State University in Massachusetts for a year. He graduated from New England School of Communications in Bangor, and first interned for a couple of online media entities before landing his first newspaper job at the Journal Tribune in Biddeford. He has worked at the Sun Journal since 2015, covering high school and college sports and beyond. Wil is a father, husband and obviously a sports fanatic.

Latest

Published
August 28, 2022

Oxford 250 draw all about luck; then it’s time to get to work

The last drivers to enter picked last during the qualifying draw. The two most coveted poker chips were still in play for the final three drivers, but so was one of the least-desired numbers.
Published
August 27, 2022

Oxford 250: Former winner Jeremie Whorff running well again at Oxford Plains

The 2006 champion from Bath has shown speed in limited races at the track this season, and he will be gunning for second victory sixteen years after his first.
Published
January 27, 2022

‘He was a light’: Former Lewiston boys soccer standout Zakariya Abdullahi dies

The 2016 Lewiston High School graduate and starting defender on the Blue Devils’ 2015 boys soccer state championship team had been in a coma after being hit by a car while on a religious trip in Saudi Arabia.
Published
November 22, 2021

Winthrop athletes ready to move on to winter season

The transition to basketball started Monday, the first day of winter practices, for players from the Ramblers’ title-winning field hockey team and state runner-up football squad.
Published
November 5, 2021

Maranacook dismisses Dirigo in Eight-man Small School South final

H.S. football: Owen Dunn scores three touchdowns as the Black Bears cruise to a 50-7 victory over the Cougars.
Published
October 26, 2021

Top-seeded Lewiston blanks Messalonskee in Class A North boys soccer quarterfinal

Shafi Ibrahim helps the Blue Devils take a 3-0 lead in the first half with an assist and a goal, and Lewiston adds four goals in the second half to beat the Eagles and advance to the semifinals.
Published
October 8, 2021

Oak Hill shakes off Poland in the second half

H.S. football: Caden Thompson rushes for more than 200 yards and collects four touchdowns in the Raiders’ 35-20 victory over the Knights.
Published
September 25, 2021

Donovan Jackson’s 4 TDs lead Lewiston past Mt. Blue for Justin Bisson’s first coaching victory

H.S. football: The Blue Devils’ interim head coach took over Thursday, and his senior quarterback starred in just his second game at the position on Saturday in Lewiston’s 27-0 win.
Published
September 7, 2021

2021 boys soccer preview: Another final run together for Mt. Abram’s Allen family

Preview notebook: This is the last season for Roadrunners coach Darren Allen with son Ian and all his classmates on the team. Also, there’s another new coach at Gray-New Gloucester and youth will be relied upon for some area teams.
Published
August 29, 2021

Farmington’s Cassius Clark wins the Oxford 250

Clark survives takes lead after crash, then, with a damaged car, fends off challenges from Derek Griffith and Curtis Gerry to claim his first Oxford 250 title.