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Pro baseball player from Maine tells Lisbon students to set goals, follow through
10+ hour, 57+ min ago (754+ words) Students at the Philip W. Sugg Middle School in Lisbon were anxious Monday afternoon. It's not every day a professional baseball player comes to visit. "I know there were a lot of people that were telling me, like, "Oh my gosh, my stomach hurts,' like, "I'm so nervous," Maizy Atwood, an eighth grader, said. "And, like, I was nervous too, but I was also excited because not a lot of people get this opportunity to meet people before they become at a much higher level." Cody Bowker didn't disappoint, encouraging the students to be themselves and put their intentions into action. Bowker, a 21-year-old Bowdoinham native, was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies this summer. Fresh from Florida, where he is in training, Bowker was in Lisbon at the behest of Assistant Principal Michael Toomey, who is also the advisor to the…...