BAR HARBOR — To Larry Allen, it felt like stepping out of a time machine. As rain came down around them on a Friday afternoon in downtown Bar Harbor, Allen and his six teammates from the 1972 Mount Desert Island boys’ cross-country team gathered inside the Village Green gazebo. With those in attendance regaling memories …
ELLSWORTH — Years after the two first met, Jimmy Shedeck remembered Darren Richardson. In the early 1990s, Richardson, an athlete at Mount View High School in Thorndike, and Shedeck, an assistant coach at Ellsworth, first crossed paths during an outdoor track meet. The two had a brief conversation, and Shedeck encouraged Richardson and gave the …
BANGOR — This week’s state championship cross-country meets have been canceled. The Maine Principals’ Association made that announcement in a press release issued Monday morning. The decision came just days before teams and individual runners from across the state were set to compete in the season’s final meet at Saxl Park in Bangor. In the …
MACHIAS — High school sports are on hold in two additional Maine counties following the latest update to the Maine Department of Education’s color-code guidelines. Washington County and Somerset County were added Friday to the list of counties under the DOE’s “yellow” designation. They join Waldo County, which was the lone county listed as yellow …
BANGOR — The biggest cross-country meet of 2020 to date yielded the biggest — and tightest — wins yet for George Stevens Academy. GSA claimed boys’ and girls’ titles Saturday in the Penobscot Valley Conference championships at Saxl Park in Bangor. The meet served as a hybrid conference and Northern Maine championship event as well …
BUCKSPORT — In a year where togetherness has been far too scarce, a peaceful fall afternoon in Bucksport provided a much-needed break from the mold. Between the year’s hyper-regionalized events and limits on gathering sizes, competition during the 2020 cross-country season has taken place on a much smaller scale than usual. School invitationals and the …
ELLSWORTH — The high school cross-country season reached the halfway point last week with local runners competing in meets in Ellsworth and Searsport. On Friday, runners from Bucksport and George Stevens Academy traveled to Searsport. GSA came away with a pair of team wins by topping the Golden Bucks and host Vikings in the boys’ …
BELFAST — Local cross-country teams continued their 2020 seasons Saturday with this year’s Festival of Champions at Troy Howard Middle School. On the boys’ side, Mount Desert Island registered 73 points as a team to finish third behind Bangor and Hampden Academy. Also competing from Hancock County were George Stevens Academy (sixth place; 168 points), …
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County’s cross-country season is officially up and running. It’s a new scene, one that includes wider courses, staggered starts to races and fewer teams at each meet than in past years. Yet the competition is back, and in a shortened season, the push for glory is reaching a vital stage even though …
SULLIVAN — Scarlet Capitano and Skylar Soule had been looking forward to this moment for a long time. As juniors a year ago, Capitano and Soule were key players on a Sumner girls’ soccer team that found itself shorthanded for much of the season. After the Tigers fought to a five-win campaign despite frequently fielding …
BAR HARBOR — Tyler Frank still has the same feeling he gets every time September arrives. True, the sports scene these days looks a bit different at Mount Desert Island High School, where Frank is beginning his seventh year as head coach of the boys’ soccer team. Between masked players and coaches, sanitization stations throughout …
ELLSWORTH — At long last, the verdict is in. High school sports will be offered in Maine this fall after the Maine Principals’ Association received approval from state agencies on a framework for a 2020 season, though not all activities have been cleared to return. Golf, cross-country, field hockey and soccer will be offered with …
