BLUE HILL — For decades, the George Stevens Academy gymnasium spent fall evenings in silence. Now, it’s home to one of the rowdiest crowds in town. From posters plastered on the walls to packed parking lots to stands filled with white-clad fans screaming until they grow hoarse, there’s been an energetic atmosphere throughout the GSA …
BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Island volleyball team has been longing to open a match like this. Even throughout a season that’s seen MDI improve leaps and bounds from where it was a year ago, there’s still been one thing in particular that’s been a worry for the Trojans: slow starts. Closing out the …
BLUE HILL — The George Stevens Academy volleyball team has extended its strong start to the season to 6-1 with wins over Ellsworth and Sumner. After winning its first four matches, GSA fell to its first loss of the year Saturday with a 3-1 loss at Calais. Yet the team bounced back Monday with a …
AUGUSTA — The Ellsworth volleyball team won its opening match of the season Monday evening with a four-set victory over Cony in Augusta. The Eagles won the first set 25-21 and the second 25-18 before Cony (0-2) won the third 25-23 to stay alive. Yet Ellsworth (1-0) took the fourth set 25-20 to earn a …
ELLSWORTH — Two months after the 2018-19 sports season came to an end, a new year is just around the corner. The 2019-20 sports season officially begins Monday, Aug. 19. Football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country and golf teams throughout the state are eligible to hold their first practices starting at midnight ahead of their first games …
ELLSWORTH — The first competitions are still more than a month away, but the Ellsworth football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country and golf teams know when and where they’ll play in 2019 after the school unveiled its fall sports schedule Friday. Below is a list of Ellsworth’s games, matches and meets for the upcoming fall sports season, …
ELLSWORTH — Island vs. mainland; family vs. family; green vs. maroon; bragging rights on the line. Any way you slice it, there’s something exceptional about Mount Desert Island vs. Ellsworth. Showdowns between MDI, Hancock County’s largest high school, and Ellsworth, its second-largest, have been taking place across sports of all kinds since the former was …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth’s Olivia Robidoux was named Friday to the Maine Volleyball Coaches Association All-State first team. Robidoux, a captain on this year’s team alongside fellow senior Kristen Omlor, spent three years as a member of Ellsworth’s varsity squad and helped the Eagles to playoff appearances in 2016 and 2017. She played under former head …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth’s Louie Luchini was named the Penobscot Valley Conference Coach of the Year for girls’ cross-country Saturday after leading the team to its first state championship in 40 years a week earlier. On Oct. 27, the Eagles topped Yarmouth by three points to win the Class B title at Troy Howard Middle School …
CASTINE — The Maine Maritime Academy volleyball team continued its strong 2018 season over the weekend by capturing the North Athletic Conference title at the school’s Smith Gymnasium. On Friday, the No. 1 Mariners took on fourth-ranked Husson University in the semifinals. MMA defeated the Eagles (5-19) 25-14, 25-13, 25-17 to advance to the conference …
Below are times and dates for local high school playoff games to be held this week. A list of next week’s games will be posted Monday, Oct. 22. Road teams are listed first. Friday, Oct. 19 Boys’ soccer, Class B North: (9) Mount Desert Island vs. (8) Hermon, 4 p.m. Boys’ soccer, Class C North: (10) …
ELLSWORTH — With little separating the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island volleyball teams Wednesday, every point mattered. Each serve, kill, block and volley brought roars from both ends of the floor at Ellsworth’s Katsiaficas Gymnasium. Leads changed constantly, and no advantage seemed safe. Although fans of both teams made plenty of noise, the Ellsworth and …
