BANGOR — Long before the 2019-20 season began, many basketball junkies across the state saw this Class B North championship game battlecoming. 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 the …
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 …
BANGOR — Katie Hutchinson’s team was not about to let the final tournament game of opening weekend be its last. Trailing by multiple baskets three separate times late in the game in Saturday’s Class D North quarterfinal game against Schenck, there were moments along the way in which the Deer Isle-Stonington girls’ basketball team could, …
BANGOR — The Ellsworth boys’ basketball team has grown to persevere in games like this. For 31 of 32 minutes Friday night, nothing Ellsworth did could seem to shake a pesky Winslow team hungry for a tournament upset. The Eagles made shots, played strong defense and forced turnovers, but every time they appeared on the …
BANGOR — The Ellsworth girls’ basketball team’s first game at the Cross Insurance Center in four years came against a buzzsaw. Opposing Waterville was simply too much for the Eagles in Friday’s Class B North quarterfinal game at the Cross Insurance Center. The Panthers exploited a size advantage on both ends of the floor and …
Hancock County has produced no shortage of standout boys’ basketball players over the years, and the 2019-20 season has proved to be no different. From tempo-setting big men to top scorers to lockdown defenders, this year’s Ellsworth American All-Hancock County team captures the best of the year that was in local boys’ basketball. With each …
