BAR HARBOR — For Ellsworth basketball players, fans and coaches, waiting 14-plus years was long enough. Many changes occurred in Hancock County’s lone city between Dec. 23, 2004, and Thursday. In that time span, 14 senior classes graduated from Ellsworth High School, and the city celebrated 250 years as a settlement as its population grew …
ELLSWORTH — Autumn Paul and her family are far from the traveling type. After an unexpected item arrived in the mail back in fall, that’s about to change. Early one morning back in November, the Ellsworth High School sophomore walked in to school just as she would any other day of the year. Soon after …
BAR HARBOR — Winning came easy for the Mount Desert Island girls’ basketball team in December. The first game of January required the Trojans to dig as deeply as they could. Coming off a 31-point win in its previous game eight days earlier, MDI had plenty of momentum on its side as it took the …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth’s Emma McKechnie highlighted Saturday’s indoor track meet at the University of Maine with wins in three different events. McKechnie’s event wins came in the long jump, high jump and triple jump at Ellsworth’s most recent meet, which pitted the Eagles against Bucksport, George Stevens Academy and Sumner. The teams were competing in …
BUCKSPORT — Competing at full strength, the Bucksport High School wrestling team took first place Saturday at a wrestling tournament in Calais. The Golden Bucks brought a total of 16 wrestlers to the tournament and sent seven of them to championship bouts. Junior David Gross, who was competing in official matches for the first time …
ELLSWORTH — As the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team dribbled the final seconds of 2018 off the clock, a chant from the Ellsworth student section said it all. Leading by 10 points in the dying moments of Monday’s encounter against Orono, the home team and its fans were in a celebratory mood as it closed out …
ELLSWORTH — Local high school wrestlers enjoyed strong dual meets and tournaments throughout the state as the 2018 portion of the season concluded over the weekend. Competing in the Maine Central Institute Winter Classic in Pittsfield, Bucksport’s Travis Hutchinson earned a win the 120-pound class. The Golden Bucks got second-place finishes from Kaleb Nightingale (126 …
ELLSWORTH — The 2018 cross-country season was historic for the Ellsworth girls’ cross-country team, which claimed Hancock County and Class B North championship crowns Oct. 5 and Oct. 20, respectively, before winning the state title Oct. 27. It was the first girls’ cross-country title in 40 years for Ellsworth, which improved with each passing meet …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth swim team closed out the 2018 portion of its schedule in excellent fashion with a sweep of Washington Academy on Dec. 21 and a strong meet Friday at the Morse Invitational in Bath. Competing against Washington Academy at the Down East Family YMCA, Ellsworth scored a 128-31 win on the boys’ …
SULLIVAN — Sumner had a winning year on the soccer field in 2018 with the boys’ team making its first regional semifinal appearance in 29 years and the girls’ team taking a huge leap forward. On the boys’ side, Sumner finished the year with a record of 14-2 after posting winning streaks of eight and …
