BANGOR — A pair of Ellsworth High School alums have the Husson baseball team back on the right track. Jackson Curtis and Austin Baron propelled Husson to five consecutive wins last week against the University of Maine at Farmington. Both former Ellsworth players notched hits and scored runs in multiple games as the Eagles rebounded …
BREWER — With its back against the wall, the George Stevens Academy volleyball team came up clutch in the season’s final moments. GSA completed an undefeated 2021 campaign with a five-set (25-23, 19-25, 17-25, 25-22, 15-12) victory over Woodland in Monday’s Penobscot Valley Conference Class C title match at Brewer High School. The Eagles came …
BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Island and Ellsworth volleyball teams competed in the pod playoffs this week with the Trojans claiming opening-round win and the Eagles falling to a narrow defeat in their play-in contest. On Thursday, third-ranked MDI claimed a four-set win over No. 6 Nokomis (4-6) in a Penobscot Valley Conference Class …
CASTINE — Ellsworth High School alum and Maine Maritime Academy senior Keith Jordan was announced Thursday as the North Atlantic Conference’s first Senior Scholar Athlete. Jordan, a 2017 Ellsworth graduate, competed with the MMA swim team in its inaugural season at the club level three years ago and returned to the team at the varsity …
BLUE HILL — The scenes of empty fields last spring hit everyone hard. For Dan Kane and the George Stevens Academy baseball team, the season that never was hurt even more. After a strong 2019 season in which it claimed the No. 1 seed in Class C North and finished with a 16-2 record, GSA …
ELLSWORTH — With the scheduled slate of games completed, the final chapter of the 2021 winter/spring volleyball season is set to begin. Hancock County teams concluded their 2021 spring/winter regular seasons earlier this week. Those teams will now turn their attentions to postseason competition as they battle to bring home Penobscot Valley Conference pod championships. …
ELLSWORTH — Springtime means baseball and softball, and although many fields are still rather damp at the moment, the action is set to return to local diamonds in the coming days. The Hancock County preseason slate is scheduled to begin with the first game Thursday, April 8. Contests will continue into the weekend and over …
SULLIVAN — Three Hancock County cheer teams concluded abbreviated 2021 seasons as the results of the virtual state championships were announced. Sumner capped off another successful campaign as it claimed second-place honors in Class C. Ellsworth and Bucksport also concluded their seasons with sixth- and 12th-place finishes in their respective events, the results of which …
ELLSWORTH — Jake Hackett has spent hours contemplating how a 2020 high school softball season might have unfolded. This time a year ago, Hackett, the head coach of the Ellsworth softball team, was still holding out hope that the spring season, which had yet to be officially canceled, could still take place. Even when those …
ELLSWORTH — Another tight battle between the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island volleyball teams has gone the way of the Trojans. MDI defeated Ellsworth in four sets in Tuesday afternoon’s match at Ellsworth High School. The Trojans claimed a 25-18, 25-20, 26-28, 25-21 victory to notch their third consecutive win and complete a regular season …
ELLSWORTH — Doug Libby vividly remembers one of the very first basketball games he watched in Hancock County. Arriving in Ellsworth in 1975 after accepting a teaching job at Surry Elementary School, Libby, who had gotten hooked on coaching youth sports during his young-adult years in Aroostook County, was eager to get involved. With the …
ORONO — The leader of one of the University of Maine’s top athletic programs is set to remain in Orono for the foreseeable future. Maine women’s basketball coach Amy Vachon agreed Wednesday to a four-year deal to remain with the program. The agreement will keep the Augusta native at the university through the end of …
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