SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Hobart College cross country senior William Fletcher of Southwest Harbor earned a spot on the 2020 Academic All-America Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country second team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Fletcher is the first member of the Hobart cross country team to earn Academic All-America honors. Across all sports, Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ student-athletes …
ASHLAND, Virginia — One of Mount Desert Island’s athletic dynasty families has another accomplishment to celebrate this spring: Carroll Marie LaHaye, whose mother Marilyn Carroll grew up in Southwest Harbor and graduated from Pemetic High School, announced her retirement from a stellar career coaching women’s college basketball. “Carroll Marie has had an amazing career coaching the women’s program at Randolph Macon,” …
Editor’s note: As of March 12 the Great Harbor Shoot Out has been cancelled. According to event organizers: “In light of the current health crisis and Governor Mills’ request to limit large gatherings and promote “social distancing,” Harbor House Community Center has decided to cancel the Great Harbor Shoot Out basketball tournament.” BAR HARBOR …
BAR HARBOR — Mount Desert Island High School is offering a girls’ basketball skills academy for students from fifth through eighth grade that is set to continue next week. The upcoming sessions will be held Monday, March 9, and Tuesday, March 10. Additional sessions will be held March 15 and 16. All will be held …
BAR HARBOR — Chalk up another successful season for the Mount Desert Island High School junior varsity boys’ basketball team. Behind the enormous success of MDI’s varsity boys’ basketball team in recent years has been the Trojans’ remarkable success at the JV level. The 2019-20 season was no exception for Kyle McKim’s team, which once …
BAR HARBOR — Celebrations following the middle school basketball championships on Feb. 10 played at Mount Desert Island High School, where both girls and boys teams made up of players from Tremont and Southwest Harbor won, deemed that side of the island anything but quiet. For the boys A team, defeating Conners Emerson’s team in …
BAR HARBOR — Mount Desert Island High School’s Porter Isaacs and Leah Carroll were announced Tuesday to this year’s All-Big East Conference basketball teams. On the boys’ side, Isaacs was named to the All-Big East third team along with Presque Isle’s Malachi Cummings, Washington Academy’s Jax Lin, Caribou’s Isaac Marker and Foxcroft’s Logan Martin. Isaacs …
BANGOR — The Mount Desert Island High School boys’ basketball team’s 2019-20 season came to an end in the Class B North quarterfinals Saturday afternoon as the Trojans fell to a 61-48 loss to Caribou at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Eighth-ranked MDI (9-11) got off to an excellent start to the game as …
BANGOR — Former Mount Desert Island High School basketball standout Derek Collin was selected Tuesday as the latest the North Atlantic Conference Rookie of the Week. On Friday, Collin notched a career-high 21 points and added six rebounds in Husson University’s 77-70 loss to UMaine-Farmington. He then scored nine points and recorded six rebounds in Husson’s 70-61 win Saturday against Thomas College. Collin, …
ORONO — The Mount Desert Island High School boys’ basketball team earned a vital win in the Class B North standings with a 54-31 win over Orono in last Thursday’s game at Orono High School. MDI (7-9) fell behind early in the game, which Orono led 13-6 through one quarter of play. The Trojans outscored …
