ELLSWORTH — Trinity Montigny just finished four years playing basketball as an Eagle. Now, she’s set to play four more. Montigny will continue her basketball career at the college level next year when she suits up for Husson University in Bangor. The outgoing Ellsworth senior finalized her decision over the weekend before informing Husson head …
BAR HARBOR — The biggest offseason basketball tournament of the year is about to take over Hancock County. Players, coaches and families from all over the state will travel to Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island this weekend for this year’s edition of the Great Harbor Shootout. The tournament, sponsored by Harbor House, is set to …
ELLSWORTH — With the high school basketball season in the rear-view mirror, youth teams in the area took center stage over the weekend with tournaments in Ellsworth and Lincoln. Locally, teams from all over the state came to Ellsworth for this year’s edition of the Sheriff’s Cup. This was the 20th year of the tournament, …
BLUE HILL — A pair of local basketball players swept the Class C and Class D Boys’ Player of the Year awards Thursday as the All-Penobscot Valley Conference teams were unveiled. George Stevens Academy senior Caden Mattson was announced as the PVC Player of the Year in Class C. Mattson led GSA in points (14.6), …
BANGOR — Long before the 2019-20 season began, many basketball junkies across the state saw this Class B North championship game battle coming. With the Ellsworth and Caribou boys’ basketball teams returning the bulk of their production from a season ago, the two were widely tipped at the beginning of the season to meet in …
BANGOR — The first game of this year’s Championship Saturday slate at the Cross Insurance Center provided a serious case of déjà vu. For the second straight year, the early-morning time slot featured one of Hancock County’s top teams, the Deer Isle-Stonington girls; for the second straight year, the No. 2 Mariners were less than …
BANGOR — For the first time in five years, there won’t be a sea of maroon traveling from Blue Hill to the Cross Insurance Center for Championship Saturday. The George Stevens Academy boys’ basketball team fell to a 60-58 overtime defeat against Central Aroostook in Friday night’s Class C North semifinal showdown. The defeat came …
BANGOR — The Deer Isle-Stonington girls’ basketball team reached the Class D North championship game with a 48-34 win in Thursday’s semifinal showdown against Katahdin. Second-ranked Deer Isle-Stonington (18-2) trailed for much of the first half, but the Mariners finished the second quarter on an 11-0 run to take a 24-16 lead into halftime. Deer …
BANGOR — Peter Austin had one goal for his players entering Wednesday night’s Northern Maine tournament game: Play loose. Although Austin’s Ellsworth boys’ basketball team has been one of the top Class B North contenders all season long, the Eagles didn’t necessarily assert themselves in their opening tourney game Friday against Winslow. Ellsworth scored a …
BANGOR — Ellsworth’s Jackson Curtis was announced Wednesday as a semifinalist for this year’s Mr. Maine Basketball award. Curtis is averaging 19.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per game this season for an Ellsworth team that is 16-3 entering tonight’s Class B North semifinal game against Washington Academy. On Jan. 25, he became the eighth 1,000-point …
BANGOR — Ellsworth senior Trinity Montigny was announced Tuesday morning as the 2019-20 Big East Conference Player of the Year. Montigny led the Big East in points (17.4) and assists (3.3) per game in the regular season. She added 18 points last Tuesday in Ellsworth’s Northern Maine prelim win over Mount Desert Island and 15 …
BANGOR — Playing as the No. 7 seed at the Cross Insurance Center a season ago was a difficult experience for the Deer Isle-Stonington boys’ basketball team. A year later, the Mariners came to Bangor hell-bent on producing a different outcome. Three hundred sixty-six days have passed since Feb. 16, 2019, the day a young …
