ELLSWORTH — In a season where life has made playing opportunities scarce off the court, Andy Pooler’s team now finds its hands full on it. Returning the majority of a roster that earned a spot on the Cross Insurance Center floor last year, Pooler’s Ellsworth girls’ basketball team has plenty of experience and leadership this …
ELLSWORTH — The first competition of the Hancock County winter sports season came Friday night as the Ellsworth boys’ and girls’ swim teams defeated Brewer in a virtual meet. On the boys’ side, Ellsworth claimed victories 10 of the evening’s 11 events to earn a 72-32 win over Brewer. The Eagles took first place in …
DEER ISLE — This January has a different feel to it for the Deer Isle-Stonington girls’ basketball team. In a normal season, this is the time of year when the Mariners, the Class D North runners-up each of the past two seasons, would be gearing up for a state title run. The wooden bleachers here …
ELLSWORTH — The opening game of the Ellsworth girls’ basketball team’s 2021 season will be a big departure from the norm. In a typical year, Ellsworth will begin its 18-game regular season slate with a showdown against a familiar Penobscot Valley Conference foe. Whether the Eagles are traveling to Orono on a Saturday morning or …
CASTINE — Conference basketball games will not be happening this winter at Hancock County’s lone university and four others throughout the state of Maine. The North Atlantic Conference announced Monday the cancellation of the 2021 basketball season. The decision means Maine Maritime Academy, Husson University, Thomas College, the University of Maine at Farmington, the University …
ELLSWORTH — Years after the two first met, Jimmy Shedeck remembered Darren Richardson. In the early 1990s, Richardson, an athlete at Mount View High School in Thorndike, and Shedeck, an assistant coach at Ellsworth, first crossed paths during an outdoor track meet. The two had a brief conversation, and Shedeck encouraged Richardson and gave the …
ELLSWORTH — After a frustrating end to 2020, the early days of 2021 have provided a beacon of hope for the Hancock County sports community. Monday marked the first day of Level 2 and Level 3 competition for local high school teams, which were able to hold formal team practices and intra-squad scrimmages for the …
SULLIVAN — For Hancock County’s easternmost school district, the return of sports is, at long last, within touching distance. More than 10 months have passed since anyone at Sumner Memorial High School has been able to compete in practices, competitions or other team activities of any kind. Since then, athletes, coaches and parents at Sumner …
ELLSWORTH — For years, sports in Hancock County have been a given. Then, in 2020, everything changed. An entire season canceled; delays after delays to fall and winter practices and competitions; masked coaches, spectators (if allowed) and, in some, cases, athletes. Those images and many more told the story of a year with no precedent …
ELLSWORTH — Years before they starred on their respective Ellsworth High School basketball teams, Trinity Montigny and Jackson Curtis played alongside one another as teammates. As youngsters at the Down East Family YMCA, Montigny and Curtis competed together as members of the third/fourth-grade boys’ team. The team, coached by Jackson’s father, Dan, would be a …
BAR HARBOR — The winter sports season continued in Hancock County this week with two more schools joining in on the action. Mount Desert Island became the third high school in the area to begin winter sports when it held its first day of skills and conditioning exercises Monday. The list of Hancock County schools …
ORONO — The University of Maine returned to college athletics last week with the women’s basketball and men’s hockey teams beginning play and the women’s hockey team resuming its season after a two-week hiatus. In Rhode Island, the Maine women’s basketball team began its 2020-21 season with a win Thursday as it defeated Providence 62-48. …
