ORONO — Finding the numbers to support high school football is a problem many teams throughout Maine have to face. The Ellsworth/Sumner Eagles have been no exception. Between injuries, competitions with other sports over players and other mitigating factors, few of the state’s Class D football programs find fielding a full team to be an …
ELLSWORTH — Central and eastern Maine CBS affiliate WABI is planning to televise three Hancock County high school football games this season. The first televised game can be seen on WABI affiliate The CW at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Sept. 7, when Ellsworth/Sumner faces Orono on the road. The Eagles defeated the Red Riots 41-3 in …
BUCKSPORT — Little went wrong in the Bucksport football team’s first game of the regular season Friday night. One of the few things that didn’t quite go as planned happened before the game even began. Halfway through the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the public address system went out at Bucksport’s Carmichael Field. Instead of …
BAR HARBOR — Hancock County’s first football game under the Friday night lights this year gave two rival schools one last chance to leave good preseason impressions. Whereas the visiting Ellsworth/Sumner Eagles returned the vast majority of the roster that led them to a historic playoff appearance last year, the Mount Desert Island Trojans brought …
BUCKSPORT — Facing off against opponents in pads for the first time in 2018, the Bucksport football team gave its fans plenty of reasons to be excited. No matter the opponent, Bucksport seemed impossible to stop whenever it had the ball in the team’s home scrimmage Saturday afternoon. The host team made key blocks in …
ELLSWORTH — With the high school football season nearly two weeks away, practices in Ellsworth and Bar Harbor are about to double in size. Rivals in most sports, the Ellsworth Eagles and Mount Desert Island Trojans practice on their own fields, courts, tracks and mats when the two aren’t playing one another. Yet when the …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth High School has scheduled its 2018-19 fall sports information meeting for Wednesday, Aug. 8. All students wishing to participate in football, soccer, cross-country, volleyball, golf or the fall cheer squad should attend the meeting with a parent or guardian. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the EHS auditorium and will …
ELLSWORTH — Five players from Hancock County wore their high school colors on the gridiron for the final time Saturday as they helped the East top the West 40-14 in Lobster Bowl XXIX at Thornton Academy in Saco. For Ellsworth/Sumner, Ethan Kane received playing time on the offensive line. It was the first game in …
ELLSWORTH — The NFL released its 2018 schedule Thursday, and the New England Patriots will open the season at 1 p.m. Sept. 9 when they host the Houston Texans on CBS. Notable games include an AFC championship game rematch on the road against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sept. 16, home games against the NFC North’s …
ELLSWORTH — Four Hancock County high school football players have been selected to play in the 2018 Shrine Lobster Bowl. Ellsworth/Sumner’s Ethan Kane, Bucksport’s Chase Carmichael and Mount Desert Island’s Colby Lee and Croix Albee were named to the roster Friday. They will represent the East team in this year’s game. Kane was injured for …
