BANGOR — This time, the blowout went the other way. Meeting for the third time this season, the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island boys’ basketball teams took to the Cross Insurance Center floor for a playoff game that meant much more than their previous encounters back home. For the Eagles, who had lost to MDI …
From the opening tip to the final buzzer, the driving force behind another strong year for boys’ basketball teams in Hancock County this year was yet another strong group of athletes who rose to face their challenges on the biggest stage. Cutting the list of local boys’ basketball standouts to just six players on the …
Whether it came to scoring, passing, rebounding or playing stifling defense, Hancock County girls’ basketball players could do it all in 2018-19. Those efforts earned six players spots on the first Ellsworth American All-Hancock County girls’ team, an accomplished unit that brings together the top skill sets from the three local playoff teams. These athletes …
Pound for pound, few places in Maine have seen more success in boys’ basketball over the past few years than Hancock County. Since the Eastern Maine region became the Northern Maine region prior to the 2015-16 season, local teams have played in a total of five state and seven regional championship games. With all six …
It’s been nearly five full years since the Mount Desert Island girls’ basketball team beat Presque Isle to claim the Eastern Maine title in Class B. Since then, no Hancock County girls’ team has won a regional title. Although only three local girls’ teams are headed to the tournament this year, those teams will be …
ORONO — The Ellsworth boys’ indoor track team won the Small-School Eastern Maine Indoor Track League title Saturday when it beat Orono by a whopping 64 points to take home the championship. On the track, Henry Scheff won the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.62 seconds. Ellsworth’s other track wins came courtesy of Matt …
ELLSWORTH — Local cheer teams competed at the state championships Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center with Ellsworth, Sumner and Deer Isle-Stonington placing in the top four in their respective classes. Ellsworth followed its Class B North championship last month in Bangor with a second-place finish at states. Hermon, which won the Class B title …
ELLSWORTH — The wrestling scene in eastern Maine revolved around Hancock County on Saturday afternoon as wrestlers from 17 high schools came to Ellsworth for this year’s Class B North championships. Wrestlers from Fort Kent to Calais to Belfast and everywhere in between packed Ellsworth’s Katsiaficas Gymnasium as fans in attendance sported team colors and …
ORONO — Nearly a year to the day after the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island boys’ swim teams fought to the wire for the conference title, the two delivered another classic showing. The Ellsworth boys edged MDI in another back-and-forth battle at the Penobscot Valley Conference championships Friday at the University of Maine. The meet …
ELLSWORTH — Looking to correct course with the playoffs looming, Justin Norwood turned to the words of a coaching legend. Norwood’s MDI boys’ basketball team entered its final stretch of the season having lost three of five games, an unusual feeling for a team that’s been among Class B’s best the past few seasons. In …
