ELLSWORTH — For over a decade, Mark Baxter and the team at RESULTS Basketball have held youth basketball training sessions in pretty much every conceivable location. “Driveways, barns, warehouses, you name it,” said Baxter, who also drew on 25 years of connections made as a schoolteacher to gain access to various gyms across eastern Maine. …
SULLIVAN — Sumner basketball players and fans from years gone by came together over the weekend for one last go-around in the school gym. Nine teams participated Saturday in the Lights Out Alumni Day Tournament at Sumner Memorial High School. The event pitted seven boys’ teams from as far back as 1973 and as recent …
ELLSWORTH — The Penobscot Valley Conference announced Sunday this year’s All-PVC selections for basketball, wrestling and indoor track. In boys’ basketball, George Stevens Academy’s David Gadsby (first team) and Teague Smallidge (third team) were All-PVC Class C selections. Sumner’s Rachel Colby was an All-PVC Class C selection on the girls’ side, and Deer Isle-Stonington’s Luna …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — The Great Harbor Shootout was held for the first time in three years over the weekend as 64 teams from across Maine came to Hancock County. Locally, Ellsworth finished 4-2 in the South high school girls’ bracket with a loss to Old Town in the bracket title game. Ellsworth also had a …
ELLSWORTH — From the gym to the pool, Hancock County boys’ athletes wasted little time establishing themselves among the state’s premier competitors this past winter. Indeed, across every sport, the 2021-22 winter season was highlighted by championship-level performances from local male athletes. The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander postseason awards highlight the top performers …
ELLSWORTH — After a diluted winter sports season a year ago, it was to be expected, perhaps, that local teams would be ready to take full advantage of returns to traditional competition environments and venues this year. That was exactly the case in Hancock County girls’ sports in 2021-22. From breakthrough athletes to numerous outstanding …
BAR HARBOR — The first sign two years ago that the world was about to change came in the form of an abrupt cancellation of one of Hancock County’s biggest wintertime draws. As is custom every year, Harbor House organizers approached mid-March 2020 getting ready for its biggest annual event, the Great Harbor Shootout. Yet …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth’s Hunter Curtis was announced Saturday as one of three finalists for this year’s Mr. Maine Basketball award. Curtis averaged 18.4 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.8 points per game this season. The senior captain helped lead the Eagles to their best record since 1966 as the program matched its furthest progression in the …
BANGOR — So close, yet so far. It seemed as if the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team was just minutes away from finally ending an agonizngly long state championship drought. Instead, the wait will go on after the Eagles couldn’t close it out against a dogged opponent that played tight defense and made key shot after …
BANGOR — The George Stevens Academy boys’ basketball team didn’t have trouble closing out games for most of the season. Over the past 48 hours, things have changed. Entering Monday night’s Class C North final, GSA was just two days removed from a regional semifinal win in which it nearly let a 17-point fourth-quarter lead …
BANGOR — The George Stevens Academy boys’ basketball team can do just about anything when everybody is available. What the Eagles have been lacking this year are chances to prove that. After GSA finally recovered from COVID-19 sidelining nearly half of its roster early in the season, the team lost arguably its two best players, …
BANGOR — There was no late-game suspense this time. After running opponents out of the gym all season long, the Ellsworth boys’ basketball team has found itself in some unusually tight games in Bangor. Single-digit victories over Presque Isle and Old Town presented the Eagles with a kind of adversity they didn’t encounter during a regular …
