Mount Desert Island’s baseball and softball teams wrapped up preseason play with games over the past week. Those teams, as well as the track team, are set to compete in their first regular season competitions in the coming days.
Mount Desert Island is seeking volunteers willing to help with the team’s upcoming home meets. The Trojans are set to host three meets this season with the first coming up next week and the remaining two planned for early and mid-May.
Mount Desert Island Athletic Director Bunky Dow was among those honored by the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association last week at the organization’s spring conference.
The Mount Desert Island volleyball team’s season came to an end last week, but not before the Trojans secured a winning record by claiming a victory in their first pod playoff match.
Usually a stolen base is something to celebrate in baseball, but there is nothing to celebrate this time, or the last two times it happened. For the third year in a row, Acadian Youth Sports has had the bases from at least three of the fields on Park Street stolen. To replace them is an expense of at least $1,000 each time.
Acadian Youth Sports is currently accepting registrations for the 2021 baseball, softball and T-ball seasons.
With the regular season finished, the Mount Desert Island volleyball team will now turn its attention to the next stage.
For a coach two years removed from his last baseball game, Andy Pooler feels he — and his squad — are in a good spot. Nothing is easy for anyone in the high school sports world these days as coaches and players look to get up to speed following a lost season. Yet even with an everchanging list of obstacles and uncertainties, Mount Desert Island’s head coach can’t help but be optimistic.
Another tight battle between the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island volleyball teams has gone the way of the Trojans.
Despite the eased restrictions on gathering limits that went into effect last week, volleyball matches at Mount Desert Island High School will remain closed to fans.
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