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 …
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 …
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 — 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 …
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 …
ELLSWORTH — There aren’t many places the sport of basketball hasn’t taken Steve Clifford. Throughout Maine, Steve and his brother, Ellsworth High School Principal Dan, spent years coaching at the high school level. Years before that, they became immersed in the sport as their father, Gerry, coached everywhere from Mattawamkeag to Lincoln to the other …
BANGOR — Every February, the Cross Insurance Center turns high school boys’ and girls’ basketball players into legends. Every August, it remembers them. Times change, and so does the the sport of basketball. Yet certain players and coaches stand the test of time and are remembered for generations. On Sunday, basketball legends from all over …
