BREWER – The Class D, C, and B Regional Finals for softball were all played Saturday at Brewer High School on Coffin Field.
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| Hermon's Katie Fowler with the pitch! The Hawks lost the Class B Regional title to Winslow Saturday at Coffin Field in Brewer. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
ELLSWORTH – The #6 Hermon Hawks softball team being on a roll is putting it mildly. On Friday, they eliminated #3 MDI in extra innings, and turned around Saturday and knocked off #2 Ellsworth 4-3.
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| Hermon's Molly Simcox started the game at catcher, went to third base in the second, singled in what would become the winning run in the second as well. Another outstanding game for Simcox. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
Hermon –The Hermon girls relied on their pitching and solid defense to take a lead and hold it, giving up just one run in the top of the seventh as the Hawks take a 4-1 win over the Mariners of Rockland.
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| The Hermon Hawks storm the field to start the Round of 16 play-in Game with Oceanside of Rockland. The Hawks took the 4-1 win to advance. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) Click Here to View The Full Photo Gallery! |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden softball team hosted Hermon in a cross-class game Friday afternoon with the Class A Broncos taking a 9-3 win over Class B Hawks.
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| Hampden's Meaghan Delahanty is seeing the ball like it was a beachball the past few games. Tonight was a three double 4-for-4 performance at the plate. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BANGOR – The Crusaders picked up a Heal Point worthy win over Hermon, 9-8, Wednesday at the Union St Soccer and Softball complex.
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| Hermon's Olivia Johnson takes a cut during Wednesday's game in Bangor against John Bapst. The Crusaders downed the Hawks 9-8. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – The Hermon softball team hosted Hampden Academy in a cross-town, cross-division game won by the visiting Broncos 5-1.
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| Hermon's Olivia Johnson with the throw to first during Monday's game at home hosting Hampden Academy. The Broncos picked up the 5-1 win. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HERMON – The Hermon Hawks JV girls team hosted Old Town in a semifinal PVC game and earned themselves a trip to the Championship Thursday, Feb. 16 with a solid 50-29 win.
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| Taylor Sherrard gets some warm up action in before the game against Old Town. Hermon won 50-29 to advance to the JV tournament championship. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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Both teams started slow and stayed with each other the first half, then Hermon turned up the heat and put the game away.
The Hawks led after each quarter, 11-9, 24-20 at the half, but outscored Old Town 12-4 in the third quarter to take a 12 point lead into the final stanza where they again outscored Old Town 14-5 for the win.
Scoring for Hermon were, Bella Bowden with a game high 14 points; Veronica Chichetto 12; Izzy Byram 10; Brooke Gallop nine; and Norra Idano five.
The Hawks were 2-of-5 (40 percent) from the charity stripe.
For Old Town, Alexis Degrasse had 10 points; Haley Madden six; Elizabeth Magoon four; Lily Mickel and Isabelle Francis three each; Isabella Danboise two; and Ava Brasslett one.
The Coyotes were 5-of-8 (63 Percent) from the foul line and they had two 3-pointers, one each from Mickel and Degrasse.
OLD TOWN---9---11---4---5---29
HERMON-----11--13---12-14--50
BREWER – The #4 Brewer JV boys defeated visiting #5 Hermon in a a game that was part of the PVC/Big East JV Boys Championship Tournament with a 44-20 score.
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| Brewer's Cayen Philbrick doing what he does so well. Two dunks in this game for Philbrick. Brewer won this tournament game over Hermon 44-20. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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Brewer opened the game with an 8-0 run and went on to a 10-4 first quarter lead. The second quarter was a little closer with brewer outscoring the Hawks 8-6 to take an 18-10 lead into the halftime.
The third quarter was all Brewer as they blew the game open outscoring Hermon 12-5 to build a 15 point lead 30-15 heading into the final quarter. The fourth was another Brewer quarter finishing up with 14-5 quarter to seal the game and move on as they try to advance to the championship game.
Scoring for Brewer were, Braden Carr with a game high 12 points; Cayen Philbrick 10; Steven Young eight; Charlie Brydges seven; Kyle Horr three; and Jake Perry and Aiden Davis two each.
The Witches were 8-of-13 (62 percent) from the foul line, and they knocked down four 3-pointers, two from Carr, and one each from, Horr, and Brydges.
For Hermon, (First names were not provided), N. Dupuy and Z. Allen had six points each; G. Scripture M. Henderson, D. Fowler, and C. Brocates added two each.
Hermon was 1-of-2 (50 percent) from the foul line and they had three long distance baskets, two from Depuy and one from Allen.
HERMON---4---6---5---5---20
BREWER---10--8--12--14--44
HERMON - At the Hermon Middle School on Friday night, the girls from J. A. Leonard shot 76 percent from the free throw line to help knock off the Hermon Hawks 47-39 in girls middle school action.
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| Hermon's Erin Selleck working hard to put back a rebound surrounded by Old Town players. Old Town won the game 47-39. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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HERMON - Friday afternoon at Hermon Middle School, the boys from J. A. Leonard Middle School in Old Town easily handled the boys from Hermon Middle School coming away with a 72-51 victory.
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| A mad frenzy for the rebound during Friday's final games of the season for Hermon and Old Town. Old Town won this one 72-51. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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Old Town won the first three quarters 16-9, 23-11, and 19-13. Hermon took the final period 18-14, but the deficit was to high for the Hawks to over come.
Leading the way for the Coyotes in scoring was Vose (no first names in scorebook for Old Town) with a game high 24 points. Also scoring in double digits for Old Town was Sockabason with 14 points and Hancode with 10 points. Mahaney and Priest each added six points, and DeGrasse scored four points. Louis, Duty, Spencer, and Powers each chipped in with two points.
Old Town had two 3-point baskets, one each from DeGrasse and Mahaney, and they shot 12-of-26 (46 percent) from the free throw line.
Mason Kinney and James Brocato each scored a team high 14 points to pace Hermon in scoring. Kobe Hills scored seven points, while Camden Morrison and Dylan Yeo each had four points. Ethan Pyle, Dylan Phair, Max Brown, and Eli Cormier all chipped in with two points each.
The Hawks had four long range baskets, two from Brocato and one each by Kinney and Hills, and they went 5-for-14 (36 percent) from the charity stripe.
OLD TOWN 16 - 23 - 19 - 14 -- 72
HERMON 09 - 11 - 13 - 18 -- 51
HERMON – The Hermon junior varsity boys basketball team hosted John Bapst Monday evening and after a close first half, the Hawks took care on defense and outscored the Crusaders in the second half to take a 41-32 win.
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| Hermon's Danny Fowler, left, gets double teamed by John Bapst's Bill Le (14), and Oscar Martinez during Monday nights JV game won by Hermon 41-32. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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Hermon led after each quarter, 13-10, 24-21 at the half, 30-24 after three quarters and outscored John Bapst in the final stanza 11-8 for the win.
Scoring for Hermon was, Zac Allen with 14 points; Carter Brocato 10; Bryan White seven; Noah Depuy and Gavin Scripture four each; and Danny Fowler two.
Hermon struggled at the foul line shooting just 11-of-33 (33 percent) while knocking down two 3-pointers, one each from, Allen and DePuy.
For John Bapst, Oscar Martinez, Tristan Martin, and Bryce Stenzel had six points each; Nathan Butler and Jack Derosier five each; and Nigel Tall four.
The Crusaders were 5-of-9 (56 percent) from behind the foul line and they got one 3-pointer from, Butler.
JOHN BAPST-----10---11---3---8---32
HERMON---------13---11---6---11--41
HERMON – The Hermon girls made up their game with Presque Isle today and after starting out a little cold in the first half went on to completely dominate the Wildcats in the second half to take the 60-33 win.
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| Hermon's Maddie Lebel, (center) goes up over Presque Isle's Rossalyn Buck (44) and Mia Casavant(34) for two of her 12 points in the game. Hermon won the game 60-33. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
Thursday night at Brewer High School, the Hermon JV girls out scored the Witches 32-11 in the first and fourth quarters to take a 41-29 victory back home as Rachel Wickett led the way for the Hawks with a game high 13 points.
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| The Hermon JV girls getting directions from the coach during a time out in Thursday's game at Brewer. Hermon won this one 41-29. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - The Brewer JV boys took a 18-8 half time lead into the third quarter and turned up the heat with a 27-0 period to put the game away over the Hermon Hawks 52-19 at Brewer High School Thursday night. The Witches knocked down five 3-point baskets in the third period.
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| Hermon's Colin Hamm goes up with a shot in traffic. Brewer won this JV game 52-19. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER - Thursday afternoon at Brewer High School, Logan Littlefield and Tyler Wilkinson both scored in double digits to help the Witches cruise past the Hermon Hawks 55-31 in a boys Freshman matchup.
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| Brewer's Tyler Willkerson, left, drive to the basket as Hermon's Jacob Gawrych plays defense during the freshmen boys game at Brewer. The Witches won the game 55-31. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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) |
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) |
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) |