BUCKSPORT — Many football coaches use a bye week as a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. Joel Sankey is not one of them. Even though a week off affords a team extra rest and more time to game plan against a particular opponent, Sankey, the longtime Bucksport head coach, is wary of the …
READFIELD — The Ellsworth/Sumner football team’s inaugural season of eight-man play came to an end Friday night with a 44-12 loss to Maranacook in the large-school semifinals. After top-ranked Maranacook (9-0) took a 22-0 lead in the firstquarter, Ellsworth/Sumner fought back with two Connor Crawford touchdown runs to cut the deficit to 22-12 going into …
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Late-season matchups against Foxcroft have become all too familiar for the Bucksport football team — and not for the right reasons. In each of the past two seasons, Bucksport has seen a promising campaign come to an end with a loss to Foxcroft in the Class D North title game. Between being shut …
BAR HARBOR — The Ellsworth/Sumner and Mount Desert Island football teams fell to Week 7 defeats Friday night in their penultimate regular season contests. In Cumberland County, Ellsworth/Sumner waged a competitive battle with Yarmouth but lost 30-20 in a pivotal eight-man clash. The defeat sent the Eagles to 2-5 on the season. Ellsworth/Sumner racked up …
ELLSWORTH — Fresh off two encouraging performances, the Ellsworth/Sumner football team entered Homecoming week with a new challenge on its hands. After earning its first win of the season with a shutout of Sacopee Valley and holding its own against Maranacook, eight-man football’s only unbeaten team, Ellsworth/Sumner had plenty of confidence ahead of Friday night’s …
HERMON — All season long, the Bucksport football team has heard the chatter. The Golden Bucks have been called overrated; they’ve been told they’ve preyed on a week schedule; they’ve even been told they’d be exposed against a strong opponent. During practices and games, Bucksport players have even repeated these adages to themselves as a …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth/Sumner football team doesn’t care to think much about its Week 3 loss to Mount Ararat. In fact, head coach Duane Crawford has six words for it: “Flush that one down the toilet.” Entering its Sept. 21 road contest in Topsham, Ellsworth/Sumner, which already had one of the state’s smallest rosters with …
OLD TOWN — With fall officially here, the 2019 high school football season is nearing the halfway mark. The standings are taking shape, and every yard, every point and every game means a little bit more. Week 3 of high school football took Hancock County teams all over the state, and the three matchups produced …
BUCKSPORT — At the end of an emotional school week at Bucksport High School, two hours on the football field gave everyone a reason to smile. This night, the school’s Homecoming game and home opener, was always going to be a big one for the football team and everyone else in the Bucksport community. Yet …
ELLSWORTH — If this wasn’t football, Jim Hartman doesn’t know what is. Hartman, back for his second stint with the Yarmouth Clippers after seven seasons at Portland, has patrolled the sidelines at many high school football fields throughout the state during his 13 years as a head coach. Doing so in the Clippers’ first-ever eight-man …
BAR HARBOR — A new era of Mount Desert Island football last season saw some early growing pains. The way the Trojans ended the year, though, is still energizing them more than 10 months later. One year removed from their second consecutive No. 1 playoff seed and Northern Maine title game, the Trojans had their …
BUCKSPORT — Keeping up with the Bucksport offense has rarely been an easy task for opposing football teams over the years. Last season, the Golden Bucks made that task borderline unfair. Few teams in Maine high school football history have posted the sorts of numbers Bucksport did in 2018, a season in which the Golden …
