BAR HARBOR — After a frustrating loss early last week, the Mount Desert Island girls’ soccer team has completely flipped the script. In their home opener last Monday, the Trojans fell to a 5-1 loss against visiting Hermon. That contest saw MDI make a number of key mistakes both offensively and defensively, and the team …
PRESQUE ISLE — The Ellsworth girls’ cross-country team spent much of the 2018 season winning meets in nail-biting fashion. The Eagles’ opening meet this year came without such difficulties. Ellsworth posted a strong start to its state championship defense Friday with a first-place finish in the Presque Isle Invitational. The Eagles placed all six runners …
BUCKSPORT — At the end of an emotional school week at Bucksport High School, two hours on the football field gave everyone a reason to smile. This night, the school’s Homecoming game and home opener, was always going to be a big one for the football team and everyone else in the Bucksport community. Yet …
BLUE HILL — Nate Mason began practicing for the 2019 soccer season in an Ellsworth uniform, but his first game as a senior came wearing a different team’s maroon and white. Less than two weeks ago, Mason was getting his photo taken as an Ellsworth Eagle at team picture day and preparing for his senior …
ELLSWORTH — If this wasn’t football, Jim Hartman doesn’t know what is. Hartman, back for his second stint with the Yarmouth Clippers after seven seasons at Portland, has patrolled the sidelines at many high school football fields throughout the state during his 13 years as a head coach. Doing so in the Clippers’ first-ever eight-man …
ELLSWORTH — With the regular season just days away, the Ellsworth girls’ soccer team is ready to make a statement. There’s a prevailing sense of confidence among this year’s group of Ellsworth players, who are busy preparing for another year in a strong Class B North field. After finishing in the top half of the …
SULLIVAN — Every time he takes a look around the soccer fields behind Sumner Memorial High School, Tom Hart finds another reason to be excited. As a head coach, Hart, who is in his second year at the helm of the Sumner boys’ team, is always searching for another wrinkle he can throw at opponents. …
BAR HARBOR — A new era of Mount Desert Island football last season saw some early growing pains. The way the Trojans ended the year, though, is still energizing them more than 10 months later. One year removed from their second consecutive No. 1 playoff seed and Northern Maine title game, the Trojans had their …
BUCKSPORT — Keeping up with the Bucksport offense has rarely been an easy task for opposing football teams over the years. Last season, the Golden Bucks made that task borderline unfair. Few teams in Maine high school football history have posted the sorts of numbers Bucksport did in 2018, a season in which the Golden …
ELLSWORTH — For two days, Carolyn Miller’s sons were baseball’s biggest stars. As Miller, an Ellsworth mother of two boys with rare medical conditions, awoke Sunday morning, she did so to the joyful yelling of Timothy, 6, and Oliver, 5. This was game day morning, and there was no containing her boys’ excitement. “They woke …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Playing in an unusually late Claremont Croquet Classic, Dave Nelson’s mastery of the sport reached a new level. This year’s edition of the tournament, which typically takes place the first full week of August, was instead held the second full week of the month. Players came from Maine and all over the …
ELLSWORTH — Nearly two months after their last home game, members of the 2019 Ellsworth baseball team are still buzzing with excitement. Many summer evenings have come and gone since June 8, the last time the Eagles played on their home field. The celebratory scenes that followed Ellsworth’s 6-0 win over Medomak Valley in the …
