Deer Isle—The girls basketball team lost to Searsport 54-43 on January 20. We played in a panic mode in the first quarter where we had 11 turnovers and no points. What offense we had was totally out of sync. In the second quarter, we cut our turnovers in half, caused …
Deer Isle—The boys basketball team lost to Machias 61-47 on January 22, arguably playing their best game of the season. Machias is tall and quick, but we took it right to them, making them turn the ball over many times in the first quarter to lead 16-11 after one quarter. …
Deer Isle—After a mixed Class C and D competition at the Penobscot Valley Conference cheering event on January 18 in Millinocket, Coach Kim Yurchick is readying her team for the Class D Northern Regional Competition this Saturday, January 23, at 11:45 a.m. at the Cross Center in Bangor. While Yurchick …
Deer Isle—The boys basketball team lost a real heartbreaker on January 14 to Sumner 60-57 in overtime. Though we didn’t control the game, we led by a small amount through most of the game. We led 21-16 at the half after a slow start for both teams. Sumner came out …
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 …
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 …
