ELLSWORTH — Last winter threw basketball teams all throughout Maine for a loop. Nobody made the best of it better than the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team. After graduating a large, experienced senior class in 2020, it would’ve been easy to see an Ellsworth team returning only one player with significant experience to go through its …
BAR HARBOR — Elena Alderman and Elizabeth Jones remember where they were as freshmen three years ago. As newcomers on the 2018-19 Mount Desert Island girls’ basketball team, Alderman and Jones were the youngest members of what would become a legendary MDI squad. Led by a senior quartet of Maddy Candage, Hannah Chamberlain, Alexis Clarito …
Student athletes, musicians and performers will not be required to wear masks during active participation if they enroll in pool testing for COVID-19 at the middle and high schools, the board ruled. This requirement is regardless of vaccination status.
ELLSWORTH — The contests will take place; that much is certain. What’s still unclear is what it’s going to look and feel like in Maine’s gymnasiums, pool areas and field houses. The scenes this year won’t be anything like the darkness of last winter, when high school athletic competitions were held behind closed doors with …
ELLSWORTH — This feels a little bit more like basketball should. Fans in the bleachers; high-fives and post-game handshake lines; excitement, not stress or worry, the pervasive feeling surrounding the action. They’re all things that haven’t been present in local gymnasiums in what seems like ages. On the hottest day of the year, a steamy …
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 …
BREWER — Another strong year for the Down East Family YMCA fifth/sixth-grade girls’ basketball team has ended with yet another championship. The DEFY fifth/sixth-graders concluded their 2021 season Saturday with a 43-31 win over Acadian Youth Sports at Brewer High School. The win gave the team the Eastern Maine Basketball League championship with an overall …
CASTINE — A season that spanned just 15 days ended without a blemish for the Maine Maritime Academy women’s basketball team. MMA finished the 2021 season with a record of 3-0 following the cancellation of last Wednesday’s scheduled showdown against Husson. The Mariners won all three games by double digits in what was the program’s …
BREWER — After making it all the way to the final game, the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team came up a bit short in its quest to close out the 2021 season with a victory. Ellsworth fell to a 69-52 defeat in Friday night’s Big East championship game at Brewer High School. The Eagles kept pace …
ELLSWORTH — If there’s one thing that’s defined the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team in the second half of the 2021 season, it’s been the Eagles’ ability to come through in key moments. Ever since falling to agonizingly close defeats in earlier contests, Ellsworth has shown an ability to deliver when it counts in big games. …
DEER ISLE — In a season defined by the unusual, the top dogs in Hancock County small-school basketball remained constant. Between a delayed season and pandemic-related pauses to all athletic activities earlier this year, games were fewer and harder to come by this season for the George Stevens Academy boys and Deer Isle-Stonington girls. When …
