Deer Isle—The girls basketball team beat a feisty Bangor Christian team on January 13, 56-41. For the first quarter and a half, BC seemed like they couldn’t miss and led us 26-19. In the last three minutes of the half, we came to life and went on a 9-2 run …
The George Stevens Academy Eagles host Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners on January 8, 2016. Video by Franklin Brown
The Mariner cheerleading squad are training hard for the Penobscot Valley Conference competition on January 16 in Millinocket, Coach Kim Yurchick said. The regional and state competitions will be held a little closer to home—at the Cross Center in Bangor, on January 30 and February 6. Front row, from left, …
Deer Isle—The boys basketball team lost on January 8 to George Stevens Academy 59-42. This was a much better game than the thumping we took at the beginning of the season. In that game we lost by 33 points and trailed by 28 points at the half. We trailed 22-13 …
Deer Isle—The girls basketball team beat Greenville on January 2, 44-24. We got off to a fast start, leading 12-4 after one quarter and 28-8 by the half. We stretched our lead to 40-13 after three quarters, and Coach Randy Shepard was able to put in the younger players in …
A handful of Eagle runners are traveling with the Ellsworth team to meets this season. They raced non-competitively at the University of Maine Orono on January 2.
Deer Isle—The boys basketball team lost its only game this week, on January 2, to Greenville 47-40. The game started similarly to the first time we played them, but the difference is that we didn’t recover from the first quarter deficit, trailing 17-9 after one quarter and 27-15 at the …
Deer Isle—The boys varsity basketball team lost a nail biter to Searsport 44-43 in overtime on December 8. We led 17-13 at the half, but Searsport shot their way back to lead 29-28 after three quarters. After a sloppy fourth quarter, Searsport had the ball with less than a minute …
Deer Isle—The girls basketball team lost to Sumner 49-36 on December 10. We actually led 24-23 at the half, despite almost 20 turnovers. We had a lot of trouble beating the press and half-court trap that Sumner put on us. The difference came about halfway through the third quarter when …
CASTINE—Maine Maritime Academy faced Colby-Sawyer, and both teams lost by narrow margins before a home crowd on December 12. The Mariner women fell by four, with a final score of 51-47. The Mariner men followed with a heartbreaking 61-59 loss. The Mariner women opened up with a 4-0 lead, finishing …
