CUMBERLAND — A strong season for the Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team concluded Saturday with the Class B championships at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland. MDI took second on the girls’ side and third on the boys’ side in the meet. The Trojans finished with what was by far the best performance …
BELFAST — Add two more trophies to the 2019 Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team’s seemingly endless list of achievements. The MDI boys and girls rolled to first-place finishes Saturday at the Northern Maine championship cross-country meet in Belfast. The wins marked the first time in school history that the MDI boys and girls …
SULLIVAN — The Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team continued its season of dominance Friday with a sweep of the Hancock County championships at Sumner Memorial High School. The MDI girls’ team claimed its third first-place finish of the season with 29 points. The Trojans withstood strong performances from second-place Ellsworth (40 points) and …
BELFAST — Runners from all over New England traveled to Belfast for Saturday’s Festival of Champions, and Mount Desert Island runners were some of the top competitors. On the girls’ side, Mount Desert Island High School finished sixth of 56 teams overall. The Trojans finished with 332 points to beat out Cape Elizabeth’s 338 and …
SULLIVAN — The Emerson girls’ cross-country team had a solid day in Saturday’s Parker Pruitt Invitational in Sullivan. Emerson’s Amelia VanDongen won the 1.9-mile race with a time of 13 minutes, 11.28 seconds. Her sister Cora VanDongen, took third with a time of 13:56.00. Other local top-10 finishers were Emerson’s Fiona St. Germain (sixth place), …
BAR HARBOR — The Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team enjoyed an exceptional day Saturday, sweeping both the boys’ and girls’ varsity and junior varsity races in the Old Town Invitational to bring four pieces of hardware back to the island. Although what head coach Desiree Sirois called “reasonable temperatures” provided for good running …
BLUE HILL — After a hot afternoon of racing at the Blue Hill Fairgrounds, the awards ceremony at Friday’s George Stevens Academy Invitational was a sea of green uniforms. The Mount Desert Island High School girls’ cross-country team dominated in its first meet of the season Friday to get its 2019 campaign off to a …
BAR HARBOR — Sixty-two runners competed in the trail race hosted Saturday by the Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team. A new venue, Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor, was chosen for this year’s race. With the view of Bracy Cove and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance, runners competed on a 3.91-mile course …
ELLSWORTH — Inclement weather Saturday throughout coastal Hancock County forced the cancellation of the Ellsworth Invitational. Mount Desert Island High School was scheduled to compete in the meet, which was set to be the first of the 2019 cross-country season. The meet will not be rescheduled. MDI will now open the season with the George …
BAR HARBOR — In all the years she’s coached, Desiree Sirois can’t remember a bigger Mount Desert Island High School cross-country team than this. Cross-country has always been at or near the top of MDI fall sports in terms of participation with a team of 30 or so students. This year, the Trojans are 38 …
