BUCKSPORT — The return of a real fall sports season saw a number of standout efforts from some of Hancock County’s top male athletes. For the first time, The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander have chosen a Player of the Year for each of the four boys’ fall sports and one all-encompassing Boys’ Coach …
BANGOR — The Ellsworth/Sumner football team was rewarded this weekend for its upstanding conduct throughout the 2021 season. Ellsworth/Sumner was presented Friday with eight-man football’s Large-School North Good Sportsmanship Award. The team was presented with the banner at halftime of the Class D championship game between Foxcroft and Winthrop/Monmouth at Cameron Stadium in Bangor. Sportsmanship …
WINTHROP — The 2021 Hancock County football season has come to an end in the exact place it started. Bucksport fell to a 46-27 road defeat in Saturday’s Class D quarterfinal game against Winthrop/Monmouth. The result eliminated Hancock County’s lone remaining football team from postseason contention. Seventh-ranked Bucksport (2-6) fell behind 20-0 early as Winthrop/Monmouth …
BAR HARBOR — The second gridiron matchup in as many weeks between two Hancock County rivals didn’t go much differently than last Friday’s historic clash. Mount Desert Island reached eight-man football’s Large-School North semifinals with a 56-0 win over Ellsworth/Sumner in Friday’s play-in game in Bar Harbor. The Trojans ruled on both sides of the …
BAR HARBOR — Mark Arnold woke up Monday morning knowing what he wanted to call on the first play of a historic game. Days before his football team’s regular season finale against Ellsworth/Sumner, Arnold, MDI’s head coach, wanted his team to set the tone in the game’s opening seconds. The play call he felt would …
BAR HARBOR — The games happen every year — but never before like this. In Hancock County, Ellsworth vs. Mount Desert Island needs no explanation. Whether in soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, swimming or any other head-to-head sport, competitions between the Eagles and Trojans are circled on the calendar by athletes at both schools. Yet in …
BUCKSPORT — The Bucksport football team has found life in the overhauled Class D to be anything but easy. After years in the Little Ten Conference, Bucksport, a longtime football power, is in a much different environment in 2021. With the new nine-team class consisting primarily of high-caliber southern Maine opponents, the Golden Bucks are …
WALES — Week 5 of the high school football season was a rough one for Hancock County as all three local teams suffered defeats. Bucksport fell to a 25-20 loss to Oak Hill in a tight Saturday afternoon battle in Wales. Elsewhere Saturday, Ellsworth/Sumner and Mount Desert Island were held to one score apiece in …
BUCKSPORT — After enjoying this feeling nearly every fall Friday night two years ago, Jaxon Gross has been missing it. Between a 2020 season that never took place, a Week 1 loss and a Week 2 cancellation that came a matter of hours before they were slated to take the field, the feeling of frustration …
ORONO — Brendan Graves couldn’t believe it when he first learned he would be playing at Alfond Stadium. No stage in the Pine Tree State is bigger for football players than the University of Maine’s home stadium, the state’s largest at a capacity of 10,000. So when the Mount Desert Island junior learned that his …
ELLSWORTH — COVID-19 troubles late this week have wiped out Hancock County’s entire Week 2 high school football schedule. Ellsworth/Sumner’s home game against Camden Hills, Bucksport’s home matchup against Poland and Mount Desert Island’s home battle with Morse are all off for this week. The games, all three of which were originally set to kick …
WINTHROP — After 650 days, regular season high school football games have been played in the state of Maine once again. The Bucksport, Mount Desert Island and Ellsworth/Sumner football teams opened their seasons with defeats in this weekend’s contests. The Golden Bucks fell on the road Friday night against Winthrop, and the Trojans and Eagles …
