HERMON – The Hermon Hawks basketball team hosted Mount Desert Island of Bar Harbor in a holiday matchup played Thursday afternoon. The Hawks had three players in double figures to led them past MDI 43-26.
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| Hermon's Maddie Lebel, knocking down one of 15 foul shots the team made in this game. Hermon won 43-26. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – Thursday afternoon at the Hawks Nest, the JV girls got the program off to a good start on the day as they defeated the Trojans of MDI 42-35 with a strong second half effort.
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| JV players off the bench late in the game are L-R, Addison Waning, Olivia Johnston, Norra Idano, Taylor Sherrard, and Kiersta Fairbrother. Hermon won the game 42-35. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden boys basketball teams fell to Bangor Tuesday evening giving the Rams a pair of wins Tuesday at The Stable with both the JV and varsity teams capturing victories.
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| The Bangor boys basketball team and the rest of the crowd at The Stable in Hampden Academy stand for the playing of the National Anthem. Bangor won the game 60-50. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BANGOR – The Bangor High School ice hockey team hosted Hampden Academy Tuesday afternoon at Sawyer Arena. Sawyer is home to Bangor, Hampden, and John Bapst.
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| Hampden's Aaron Donovan, makes a beautiful save on this shot from Bangor's Ty Walker. Bangor went on to win the game 2-0. (Photo by Ron Hawkes) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden girls hosted Brewer in an out of conference game Tuesday night with the Broncos easily handling the Witches with a 64-37 win.
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| Hampden's Lauren Voteur at the foul line while teammate Lucy Wiles looks on. Hampden won this game over Brewer 64-37. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – The Hermon "A" team got a big game from Kass Lebel who dominated the boards and took her shooting outside for a game high 16 points en route to a 44-32 win for the Hawks.
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| Hermon's Kass Lebel (11) and Brewer's Gabby Chase (13) battled each other all night despite obviously being friends off the court. These two are pretty evenly matched. Hermon won the game 44-32. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – The Hermon girls Middle School hosted the Witches of Brewer Community School Monday afternoon and sent the Brewer "B" team home with a 39-24 loss to start the week.
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| Hermon's Maddie Muth drives to the basket during the first quarter of play Monday. Hermon B went on to defeat Brewer B 39-24. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER – The Brewer hockey program hosted Camden Hills Saturday afternoon at the Penobscot Ice Arena in a thrilling overtime game won by the Windjammers on a goal just 3:46 into the eight minute extra period.
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| Camden Hills Jacob Johnson, (11) works his way past Brewer's Brady Barker to score the game winner in overtime. Camden Hills won 2-1. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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GLENBURN - Saturday afternoon at the Glenburn School, the Glenburn Chargers had little difficulty with the Ellsworth Eagles as they cruised to a 48-21 victory in an Eastern Maine Basketball League 7/8B girls contest.
BANGOR – The Bangor High School swim and dive teams hosted Brewer in a dual meet at the Bangor YMCA pool. In the end the Brewer girls outscored the Rams 99-74 and the boys was 96-26 over the Witches.
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| Bangor's Kelsey Carreira takes off on her last dive of the evening. |
BREWER – The Brewer hockey program hosted the Bangor Rams in a season opening ice hockey match up at PIA in Brewer falling 5-1. The outcome was not what they hoped for to start the season as a motivated Bangor team came out playing to prove their season opening loss to Edward Little was not what to expect from this team this season.
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| Brewer Goalie, Ethan Hanscom makes a save on this shot in Wednesday's game against Bangor as teammate Jed Gilpatrick is ready to assist. The Rams won this game 5-1. (Photo by Ron Hawkes) |
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In the end Bangor set the tone for its future games. Brewer is a good team, they were just not quite ready for the play of the Rams in this one.
Bangor opened the scoring 1:22 seconds into the game with a goal from Issac Bonenfant, assisted by Michael Moscone and Miles Randall.
The Rams took a 2-0 lead in the first period on a goal from Randall with an assist from Michael McLean.
At 8:46 in the second period the Witches scored their lone goal of the game that was made by Brady Barker with an assist from Cade McKenney.
With the score 2-1 Bangor went to work to make up that goal and at 10:03 into the period Cameron Legassie buried a shot into the back of the net with an assist from Cole Neale giving the Rams a 2-point lead again.
Bangor lit the board twice more in the final third period. Randall scored his second goal 7:25 into the period with a beautiful pass in from Cooper Ireland. At 10:39 Ireland was able to follow up the assist with an unassisted goal of his own for the final score of the game.
Bangor had Baxter Cole in goal for the win to move Bangor to 1-1 on the season. Brewer's keeper was Ethan Hanscom who despite giving up five goals, kept many more out of the goal with some very good defense.
Bangor will head south to So. Portland for their next match-up Saturday, Dec. 18 ,while Brewer will host another home game, this on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the Penobscot Ice Arena, will be against Camden Hills of Rockport.
BANGOR 2 1 2 5
BREWER 0 1 0 1
HAMPDEN – The Hampden Academy girls basketball team came out with pressure, applied it aggressively, and went on a 16-0 run to start the game. That dominating pressure resulted in a lopsided 69-26 victory for the Lady Bronco's who go to 2-0 on the season with the win. The Edward Little girls fall to 0-2 on the young season.
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| Edward Little's Layla Facchiano finds it difficult to get past the defense of Hampden's Cam Neal. The Broncos won this game 69-26. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden girls basketball program hosted Edward Little in their home opener against Edward Little of Auburn. The junior varsity opened the night with a 57-21 win over the Red Eddies.
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| Hampden's Destiny Moores, right, races past Edward Little's Lexi Kelsea on a fast break for an easy lay-up. The Broncos won the game 57-21. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - Taylor Loring was the lone player to score in double digits as she sparked the OTO YMCA to a 44-32 win over Brewer in an Eastern Maine Basketball League 7/8A girls contest Sunday afternoon at Brewer High School.
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| Brewer's Gabby Chasse drives past a couple of Old Town defenders on her way to the basket. Old Town won this game 44-32. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - Sunday morning at Brewer High School, the Brewer 5/6B girls showed their dominance over the Holbrook Red Devils as they cruised to a 57-15 win in an Eastern Maine Basketball League travel game.
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| Brewer's Marlaina Roberts grabs a missed shot under Holbrook's basket. Brewer won this game 57-15. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden Academy Broncos varsity boys basketball team opened the season Friday night in the Stable. The visiting Camden Hills Windjammers used their 3 point shooting and in your face defense to run away with the game in the third quarter outscoring Hampden 16-4 leading to the 64-49 win.
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| Camden's Hunter Norton had some serious ups to rip this rebound down in traffic during Friday's game at Hampden Academy. The Windjammers won the game 64-49. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN - The Hampden Academy junior varsity boys doubled up the Camden Hills of Rockport Windjammers in the first quarter, and they kept pace with the Jammers the rest of the way for a 52-44 victory at The Stable inside Hampden Academy on Friday night.
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| Camden Hills Will Duke tries to drive past Hampden's Kamron Tardiff as Camden's Hayden Davis looks on. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN – The Stable at Hamden Academy played host to the Camden Hills Windjammers of Rockport freshmen boys for a season opener with the Jammers taking home a hard earned 48-41 win.
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| Camden's Bryce Curtis (10) puts the pressure on Hampden's Benet Moholland as varsity coach Jon Moro looks on. Moro has been doing double time in practices and now games as the freshman coach John Curtin is out ill. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - The William S. Cohen girls had an easy night of action on Thursday night, as they rode a 19-4 first quarter lead all the way to a 49-33 victory over the Brewer Witches in an "A" level game at the Brewer Community School. The victory gave the Eagles a sweep of Brewer in the middle school B/A doubleheader.
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| Brewer's Gabby Chasse looks to give and go as she brings the ball up the floor during Thursday's game at the Brewer Community School against Cohen School of Bangor. Cohen won the game 49-33. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - Thursday afternoon at the Brewer Community School, the William S. Cohen girls overcame a one point third quarter deficit and managed to squeeze out a 24-22 victory over the host Brewer Witches in a "B" level middle school basketball contest.
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| Brewer's Rylee Bailey brings the ball up the court during Thursday's game at the Brewer Community School against Cohen School of Bangor. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
GLENBURN - The Glenburn middle school "B" level girls had to much talent and experience for the Samuel L. Wagner of Winterport Clippers to handle, as the Chargers rode an opening quarter shutout all the way to a 51-9 win on Wednesday night at the Glenburn School.
GLENBURN - Wednesday afternoon at the Glenburn School, the Samuel L. Wagner A level girls of Winterport rode a seven point half time lead to a 4-point 20-16 victory over the Glenburn Chargers in a middle school basketball game.
BREWER – The Eastern Maine Middle School League kicked off another season Monday, with a couple of match ups of Reeds Brook of Hampden and Brewer Community School "A" and "B" teams.
HERMON – The Hermon travel team of 7/8 grade girls hosted Brewer in a travel contest Sunday at Hermon Middle School.
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| Brewer's Gabby Chasse makes a free throw during Sunday's game in Hermon. Brewer won the game 36-34. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – The Hermon girls hosted Hampden Sunday at Hermon Middle School in a 5/6 grade game where the Broncos took a 29-5 first half lead and never looked back as they went on to a 49-22 win.
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| Hermon's Gracie Fecteau (3) dribbles up the floor with Hampden's Kara Krystal (31) in hot pursuit. Hampden won the game 49-22. (Photo by Ron Hawkes) |
GLENBURN - Sunday in Glenburn, the Eastern Elite 7/8 B girls took care of business pulling off a sweep of the Glenburn Chargers in an Eastern Maine Basketball League travel basketball doubleheader. The Elite picked up a 45-38 win in the first game, and pulled off another win 39-34 in game two.
BANGOR - The Bangor boys set the tempo of the game in the first quarter out scoring the Mariners of Oceanside High School of Rockland 23-14 on their way to a 62-46 preseason win at the Red Barry Gymnasium inside Bangor High School on Wednesday night.
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| Oceanside's Zeb Foster (21) makes a move to get around two Bangor defenders during Wednesday's preseason game at Bangor High School. Bangor won the game 62-46. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BANGOR - Wednesday night at the Red Barry Gymnasium inside Bangor High School, Emmie Streams and Abbie Quinn both scored in double digits to lead the Bangor Rams to a 57-49 win over the Oceanside Mariners of Rockland in girls varsity preseason action.
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| Bangor High School girls basketball team hosts Oceanside of Rockland in a preseason match up. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |