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Over at Reginald P. Clark Memorial Field, where the Skowhegan Indians football team was scheduled to take on the rival Bangor Rams Friday night, there was quite a lot of maroon and white to be seen -- Bangor's colors.
The entire senior boo th at the edge of the football field had been painted sometime overnight in maroon and white with the words "Billy Clark, Indians" and in large maroon letters "Bangor Rams."
Billy Clark is a senior running back for Skowhegan who, before Friday's game, had rushed for a league-leading 692 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Bangor won last year's matchup, 26-14.
The names and numbers of current and past players and names from this year's senior class had been painted over on the booth, too.
A maroon and white, pumpkin-smiley face also was painted on the booth, again with the words "Billy Clark."
"Sometime last night or in the early morning we had somebody paint our senior booth white and red," Skowhegan police Officer David Daigneault, the high school resource officer, said Friday morning.
"They pretty much painted over the school colors with white and just kind of wrote 'Bangor Rams' all over the building."
Daigneault said he has some leads in the vandalism, but those leads do not necessarily lead up Interstate 95 to Bangor.
"I don't want to speculate," he said. "I don't want to say it's them. It could be anybody. There's always a possibility that it wasn't" Bangor students, Daigneault said.
The officer said the booth had been orange and black, just like everything else around the high school on Friday.
Skowhegan High School Principal Rick Wilson was not in his office Friday morning and did not return telephone messages later in the day for comment.
Bangor High School Principal Norris Nickerson said Friday that no one had mentioned the vandalism to him, but that he trusted it was not his students who had done it.
"I would be shocked if our kids had taken the time to go that far away to do something of that sort, but it could have happened, I'm sure," Nickerson said. "We've had similar types of situations here and I don't even rule out my own kids trying to stir up controversy when it happens in their own school.
"It could be most anything, but I wouldn't pass judgment on it. We hope that kids represent themselves on both sides of the field."
Terry Michaud, athletic director at Skowhegan, said he did not care to comment on the incident or to speculate how the maroon and white paint made its way onto the Skowhegan orange and black.
He said it is a long-standing tradition to paint the names of players and senior students on the booth for homecoming.
By game time Friday night, the maroon graffiti had been painted over, replaced with the orange and black names and uniform numbers of Skowhegan.
Doug Harlow -- 474-9534, Ext. 342
dharlow@centralmaine.com
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