BUCKSPORT — The wrestling regular season began Saturday with Bucksport hosting its own tournament and Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island competing in Belfast. Bucksport hosted schools from across the state in this year’s edition of the Ryan Detour Memorial Tournament. This year marked the first time the tournament, which has been held in Detour’s honor …
ELLSWORTH — The road to the Gold Ball officially has begun for high school girls’ basketball teams throughout the state of Maine, and three Hancock County squads with high hopes for the 2018-19 season made good first impressions over the weekend. Ellsworth, Mount Desert Island and Deer Isle-Stonington earned victories in their first games of …
BLUE HILL — The faces of the boys wearing George Stevens Academy’s maroon and white basketball uniforms have changed a lot over the years; the team’s mission, winning the Gold Ball, has not. Long one of Hancock County and Downeast Maine’s top basketball programs, the GSA boys’ success has reached new heights in recent seasons. …
BAR HARBOR — Justin Norwood has been quick to credit the Mount Desert Island boys’ basketball team’s winning ways in recent years to the program’s accomplished players. It’s how his groups have embraced their identities, though, that has yielded those results. After riding a seasoned and talented senior class to a Gold Ball with a …
BUCKSPORT — Bucksport football won big at the Little Ten Conference awards ceremony Sunday night with two players receiving major honors following the team’s impressive 2018 season. Senior Carter Tolmasoff was named Player of the Year in the conference following his prolific season on the ground. Tolmasoff finished with 1,661 rushing yards and 25 rushing …
ELLSWORTH — For 32 minutes of play Monday evening, the Deer Isle-Stonington girls’ basketball team looked fearless. Up against an Ellsworth team that had a much larger talent pool from which to draw, it would have been easy for Hancock County’s smallest high school to get overwhelmed. After all, schools of different sizes are put …
ELLSWORTH — The biggest competition in town over the weekend was held not on a field, in a gym or on a track. Instead, it took place inside a much more unusual setting just a stone’s throw from downtown. If there was even space to move anywhere from the bar area to the tables and …
ELLSWORTH — No matter who’s in the water, Ellie Clarke knows their name. Since she was just 3 years old, Clarke has been a staple at the Down East Family YMCA pool. After spending a decade and a half doing everything from taking swim lessons as a youth to competing for DEFY’s club team and …
BUCKSPORT — The Tournament of Champions, hosted by Dennis and Karen Tracy of Tracy’s Karate on Oct. 27, brought approximately 200 competitors from Maine and Canada to Bucksport’s Ralph Jewett Gymnasium. The tournament featured team fighting, which placed competitors on separate team drawn from different dojos. More than 20 teams competed for the right to …
By Travis Lazarczyk Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel AUGUSTA — It’s first down and goal to go for proponents of eight-man football in Maine. The Maine Principals’ Association football committee voted Thursday to replace the Class E developmental league with an eight-man division next year. Classes A, B, C and D would continue to play the traditional …
