SULLIVAN — After years at the bottom of Class C, the Sumner girls’ basketball team is in the midst of a resurgence. Following an 0-18 season in 2019-20, the Tigers turned a bit of a corner a year ago. Not only did Sumner snap a winless streak of nearly two years, but the team would …
ELLSWORTH — Gage Hardy has grown this year — in more ways than one. A bench player last year, Hardy, a member of the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team, put in countless hours of work to improve his game ahead of the 2021-22 season. Yet the Ellsworth senior has also been aided by growth in a …
BAR HARBOR — Justin Norwood’s team took the term “playing lights-out” a bit too literally Saturday. Leading by 16 with 1 minute, 12 seconds left in the Mount Desert Island boys’ basketball team’s home game against Houlton, Norwood’s Trojans were on the verge of a much-needed win in the Class B North standings. Given the …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth swim team has started the second half of the regular season with one of its best efforts to date. Ellsworth took on Class A Bangor in a battle of two top Penobscot Valley Conference programs Friday night at the Down East Family YMCA. The Eagles claimed a 104-59 victory on the …
DEER ISLE — It’s been a changing of the guard this year for a basketball team that’s dominated Downeast Maine like no other over the past few years. Since the start of the 2017-18 season, no team, boys or girls, in Hancock County or Washington County has won more games than the Deer Isle-Stonington girls’ …
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County’s three high school wrestling teams got a full afternoon of competition in over the weekend in a locally held meet. Ellsworth, Bucksport and MDI wrestlers competed in a round-robin tournament Saturday afternoon at Ellsworth High School. A total of 94 matches were held with local wrestlers claiming an impressive 46 wins. …
ELLSWORTH — Andy Pooler’s tenure with the Ellsworth girls’ basketball team began with a rebuilding job. Stepping on as Ellsworth’s head coach in 2011-12, Pooler took over a young team fresh off a one-win season. The first year was trying as expected for Pooler and the Eagles, who lost their first eight games en route …
ORONO — December came to a close with Hancock County athletes lighting it up at the University of Maine. Local runners, jumpers and throwers took part in the season’s second and third indoor track meets Dec. 23 and 30 at UMaine’s New Balance Field House. Hancock County accounted for 17 victories in the month’s penultimate …
ELLSWORTH — Welcome back, everyone. Welcome back, parents who had to miss more than a year of watching your children play; welcome back, passionate fans and student sections; welcome back, football, baseball, softball, wrestling and all other sports that could not go forward in 2020 as well as in the early winter months of 2021. …
ELLSWORTH — Before the local sports world became somewhat recognizable again, 2021 began as a year unlike any other. Whereas the turning of the calendar is usually met with optimism and feelings of new beginnings, the world was a much different place as 2020 turned to 2021. With a pandemic raging, Maine’s 2020-21 winter season …
BUCKSPORT — The season is young, but three local boys’ basketball teams have already racked up some big wins. Ellsworth and George Stevens Academy claimed wins over local foes Wednesday before improving to 3-0 over the weekend. Elsewhere, the Sumner boys earned their first win since January 2020 with an emphatic victory over Deer Isle-Stonington. …
BUCKSPORT — One Saturday in December always means just a little bit more to the Bucksport wrestling team. With the exception of last year’s pandemic-canceled season, Bucksport’s Ralph Jewett Gymnasium has been host to the Ryan Detour Memorial Tournament every year since 2003. The tournament is held in memory of its namesake, Ryan Detour, a …
