BREWER — With its back against the wall, the George Stevens Academy volleyball team came up clutch in the season’s final moments. GSA completed an undefeated 2021 campaign with a five-set (25-23, 19-25, 17-25, 25-22, 15-12) victory over Woodland in Monday’s Penobscot Valley Conference Class C title match at Brewer High School. The Eagles came …
BLUE HILL — The scenes of empty fields last spring hit everyone hard. For Dan Kane and the George Stevens Academy baseball team, the season that never was hurt even more. After a strong 2019 season in which it claimed the No. 1 seed in Class C North and finished with a 16-2 record, GSA …
ELLSWORTH — With the scheduled slate of games completed, the final chapter of the 2021 winter/spring volleyball season is set to begin. Hancock County teams concluded their 2021 spring/winter regular seasons earlier this week. Those teams will now turn their attentions to postseason competition as they battle to bring home Penobscot Valley Conference pod championships. …
ELLSWORTH — Jake Hackett has spent hours contemplating how a 2020 high school softball season might have unfolded. This time a year ago, Hackett, the head coach of the Ellsworth softball team, was still holding out hope that the spring season, which had yet to be officially canceled, could still take place. Even when those …
ELLSWORTH — Another tight battle between the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island volleyball teams has gone the way of the Trojans. MDI defeated Ellsworth in four sets in Tuesday afternoon’s match at Ellsworth High School. The Trojans claimed a 25-18, 25-20, 26-28, 25-21 victory to notch their third consecutive win and complete a regular season …
ELLSWORTH — Doug Libby vividly remembers one of the very first basketball games he watched in Hancock County. Arriving in Ellsworth in 1975 after accepting a teaching job at Surry Elementary School, Libby, who had gotten hooked on coaching youth sports during his young-adult years in Aroostook County, was eager to get involved. With the …
BLUE HILL — What should have been a glorious fall sports season for Sophia Biggie-Jennings was instead a major gut punch. Biggie-Jennings, a junior at George Stevens Academy, had long pictured this past fall as a golden opportunity for the GSA volleyball team. With all but one player back from a squad that went 13-3 …
DEER ISLE — A local high school with a tradition of success in both diamond sports won’t be fielding a team in either one this spring. Deer Isle-Stonington will be unable to offer baseball and softball during the 2021 spring season, Athletic Director Betsy Woodward told The Ellsworth American last Wednesday. The school lacks the …
ELLSWORTH — After three losses to tough opponents to start the year, the Ellsworth volleyball team is finally in the win column. Ellsworth defeated Bucksport in straight sets in Monday’s match at Ellsworth High School. The Eagles won decisively in the first set and fended off challenges from the Golden Bucks in the second and …
BREWER — Despite fielding a team of just five members, the Ellsworth boys’ swim team took a respectable third place in the recent Penobscot Valley Conference championship meet. Ellsworth’s team of Lucas Fendl, Owen Frank, Sean Hill, Nick Partridge and Robert Springer finished behind champion Mount Desert Island and runner-up Bangor in the 11-team field. …
AUGUSTA — Maine high school sports might finally be getting — dare it be said — just a little bit more normal. After more than a year of dealing with the unfamiliar on courts, fields, diamonds and tracks throughout the state, local athletes, coaches and administrators are beyond ready for the return of the atmospheres …
CASTINE — After seeing their seasons canceled abruptly a year ago, spring athletes at five Maine universities appear set to compete in their favorite sports in the weeks and months ahead. The North Atlantic Conference announced Wednesday that it will be moving ahead with a 2021 spring sports season. The announcement means spring athletes at …
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