BUCKSPORT — Hancock County runners were among the top performers in Saturday’s Penobscot Valley Conference championship cross-country meet. Two local boys’ runners claimed individual wins in the meet, which was held at Bucksport High School. At the team level, Mount Desert Island continued its prolific 2021 season by sweeping both Class B titles. Bucksport’s William …
HERMON — Hancock County led the way in the most recent cross-country meet with local runners sweeping both the team and individual events. The George Stevens Academy boys and Mount Desert Island girls claimed team wins in Saturday’s Pendale Invitational in Hermon. Individually, the GSA girls’ Thea Crowley and the MDI boys’ Sam York placed …
BELFAST — One of the state’s largest sporting gatherings in over a year and a half took place Saturday in Hancock County’s neighbor to the west. Runners from the six Hancock County high schools and others throughout New England competed Saturday in this year’s Festival of Champions at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast. A …
OLD TOWN — It was a lighter slate on the cross-country circuit this past week, but a select few local runners traveled north for the fourth meet of the 2021 season. Runners from Ellsworth, Bucksport, Mount Desert Island and Sumner competed Monday in the Old Town Invitational. The sectional meet featured a limited selection of …
BLUE HILL — With September surpassing the halfway point, the 2021 cross-country season is now in full swing. Personal records are falling, new goals are being set, and runners, who had their seasons shortened and their state championship hopes dashed a year ago, have big dreams once again. In the season’s latest competition, Hancock County …
BUCKSPORT — Cross-country runners from local Class C teams traveled to Bucksport High School on Saturday for the second meet of the 2021 season. Runners from Bucksport, George Stevens Academy and Sumner participated in the meet, which also included competitors from other Class C schools throughout eastern Maine. Orono claimed first place in the boys’ …
ELLSWORTH — The 2021 cross-country season opened Saturday with runners from all six Hancock County schools competing at Ellsworth High School. Mount Desert Island brought home a pair of team wins as it edged Orono to win the boys’ and girls’ events. Individually, runners from MDI, Bucksport and George Stevens Academy were among the top …
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County teams wasted little time getting the 2021-22 sports season underway. The local fall season began Monday, the first day teams were eligible to hold practices under Maine Principals’ Association rules. Some teams took the field as early as Monday morning with one squad beginning activities at the earliest possible second. The …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth High School’s 2021 fall sports meeting has been scheduled for next Wednesday, Aug. 11. Athletes wishing to participate in football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, golf and the football cheer team are required to attend the meeting, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom webinar, a link …
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 …
