Local Sports

It has been a productive vacation week for a group of Ellsworth High School athletes who for the first time in school history won the state swimming championship.

Notre Dame goalie Cal Peterson stopped 40 shots while his Notre Dame teammates were putting the puck in the net leading the Fighting Irish to a 5-1 win over Maine.

The UMaine women posted their 20th win of the season with a 73-46 win on the road at UMass Lowell while the men dropped an overtime decision to the Riverhawks 108-95.

The new Class AA will play quarterfinals in the boys division for the first time tonight in Augusta when the Bangor Rams face the Oxford Hills Vikings.

Winslow's Alec Clark and Frank Curran of Cheverus capped off their high school football career in style Saturday as they received the Gaziano Award for top lineman in the state.

A battle between two of the top four teams in Class B takes place tonight at MacKenzie Gym in Old Town as the #2 Coyotes take on #4 Washington Academy.

Coming off their first conference loss of the season the Husson men's basketball team rebounded by stepping out of conference and beating Colby 92-89 in overtime. Both teams are having good seasons on the court so it should be no surprise the game stayed tight from start to finish...

A poor shooting night against the hottest team in America East is not a good combination. That however was the case as the UMaine men lost on the road at Stony Brook 81-54 Monday night.

It was a good news bad news day for Husson basketball as the men suffered their first conference loss while the women cruised past Green Mountain College and move to 10-0.

Husson University basketball teams started a weekend of play by posting wins over Castleton University and improve to 9-0 in North Atlantic Conference play.