BLUE HILL — For most high school basketball teams in Maine’s smallest classes, finding role players to build championship teams is no easy task. From 2014-18, the George Stevens Academy boys’ squad was one of the rare few to find the perfect blend. In Taylor Schildroth and Max Mattson, the GSA boys had a pair …
BLUE HILL — With the winter sports regular season set to begin next week, teams across Hancock County are gearing up with preseason games, scrimmages, meets and tournaments. Local basketball teams opened play against teams from different classification levels all over the state to prepare. Among the cross-class showdowns were Tuesday’s contests, which pitted Mount …
ELLSWORTH — This year’s edition of the Santa Run/Walk 5K is scheduled to be held next, Dec. 2. The race will begin and end at Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School. Costumes are encouraged but not required for the race, which gives 100 percent of its proceeds to the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center. Prizes will be …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth/Sumner and Bucksport football players were among those named All-Little Ten Conference selections Tuesday. For Ellsworth/Sumner, senior Javon Williams was named a second-team selection on both offense and defense. Malcolm Svec was named to the second-team offense, and junior Connor Crawford was selected to the second-team defense. David Gross, Cameron Soper, Carter Tolmasoff …
ELLSWORTH — Life is pretty good right now for Trinity Montigny. After the past month, it’s easy to see why. On Oct. 27, Montigny ran as part of the Ellsworth girls’ cross-country team that made history when it broke a 40-year state championship drought. Less than a week later, she received a certificate informing her …
By Mike Lowe Portland Press Herald ORONO — Belief. That’s what Joe Harasymiak has been preaching to the University of Maine football team for a year. Belief in the team. Belief in what can be accomplished. And Saturday afternoon, the Black Bears accomplished something no one foresaw four months ago. Picked to finish eighth in …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth’s Olivia Robidoux was named Friday to the Maine Volleyball Coaches Association All-State first team. Robidoux, a captain on this year’s team alongside fellow senior Kristen Omlor, spent three years as a member of Ellsworth’s varsity squad and helped the Eagles to playoff appearances in 2016 and 2017. She played under former head …
BAR HARBOR — Bunky Dow never got rid of the wrestling gear in the Mount Desert Island High School sports closet. With the winter season less than a month away, he’s about to bring it back out again. No current athletes at MDI have ever worn the team’s dark-green singlets and headgear, but that doesn’t …
ELLSWORTH — Local veterans were among the many competitors at this year’s running of the Veterans Remembrance Road Race held Sunday morning in Ellsworth. A total of 127 walkers and runners competed in this year’s race, which was held behind the Down East Family YMCA. Twenty-two of the participants were veterans. The top military veteran …
BLUE HILL — After a brief stint in Florida, former George Stevens Academy boys’ basketball standout Taylor Schildroth will be moving closer to home. Schildroth announced Saturday that he would be continuing his basketball career at Woodstock Academy in Connecticut. His return to New England came less than two weeks after announcing he would be …
