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) |
FARMINGTON – The Broncos softball team traveled to Farmington Monday, May 23, to take on the Mt. Blue Cougars, bringing home a 13-2 win.
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| Hampden's Danielle Masterson had four RBI's in Monday's game. (File Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR). |
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 Rams hosted the Broncos Wednesday night in a game under the lights at Bangor High School. When the dust settled the game was a 2-0 win for the visitors.
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| Danielle Masterson is having an outstanding season in the circle for the Hamden Academy Broncos. (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) |
BREWER – The Brewer boys lacrosse team hosted cross town rival Bangor in their second matchup of the season. It was a hard fought back and forth battle that in the end was won by Brewer 13-12.
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| Brewer's Ryder Goodwin, hit the back of the net seven times to lead Brewer to an exciting 13-12 win over Bangor. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
LEWISTON – The Hampden girls got back on track yesterday with a roaring 16-4 win over host Lewiston.
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| Hampden's Cam Neal went 4-4 Friday against Lewiston in an 16-4 win for the Broncos. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR from a previous game.) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden Academy broncos hosted the Skowhegan Riverhawks in another close game, unfortunately for the Broncos, it was another 1-0 loss. The Broncos opened the season with a 1-0 loss to Skowhegan.
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| Hampden's Meaghan Delahanty gets just under this pitch to foul it off. (From a previous game) She had one of four hits against Skowhegan today. (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) |
HAMPDEN – The Broncos varsity softball team once again received outstanding pitching and clutch hitting to pick up a 4-2 win over Edward Little of Auburn Friday afternoon.
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| Hampden's Cam Neal had the only Broncos extra base hit in today's game against Edward Little. Hampden won 4-2. (Photo from a previous game by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
HAMPDEN – The Hampden softball team scored three in the third, two more in the fourth and three again in the fifth on their way to an 8-0 win.
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| A scene from the Messalonskee at Hampden Academy softball Thursday, May 5 at Hampden Academy on the turf! (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BANGOR – The Bangor Rams track and field team hosted a meet Monday, May 2, at the beautiful Cameron Stadium.
HAMPDEN – The Hampden Broncos hosted #1 Oxford Hills in a varsity game at the Stable where the Vikings took home a 66-55 road win on Senior Night for the boys and the cheerleaders.
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| Hampden's Aiden Kochendoerfer (24) guards Oxford Hills Colby Dillingham during the Feb. 10 game at the Stable on Senior Night. Oxford Hills won the game 66-55. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BREWER – The Brewer girls varsity team hosted Camden Hills of Rockport Tuesday evening and were faced with a hard battle that took an excellent fourth quarter to capture the 61-50 win.
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| It was Senior Night at Brewer for Trea Broussard, shown here with Coach Horr. Other seniors graduating this year are, Brooklyn Fick, Riley Umel, and Kelly DiCarlo (not shown). Brewer also won the game 61-50 over Camden Hills. (Photo by Ron Hawkes) |
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BREWER – The Brewer boys varsity team got off to a very slow start Saturday afternoon, but come the second quarter they were back, and there was no stopping them as they went on to defeat the visiting Eagles of Messalonskee 82-40.
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| Brewer's Evan Glass gets control of a loose ball in from of the Brewer Student Section, a very loud and proud group of students. Brewer won the game over Messalonskee 82-40. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
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After a tough first quarter that saw the Witches struggle just to find the basket. It didn't matter until late in the quarter when Brewer finally started to find their way and took a slim 14-12 first quarter lead. The second quarter was all Witches as they outscored the Eagles 22-9 to take a 36-21 lead into the halftime break.
The second half was more of the same for Brewer. Outscoring Messalonskee 23-12 in the third to extend their lead to 59-33. The Witches coasted through the final stanza again outscoring the Eagles 23-7 for the win.
The fact that after the first quarter the sky started raining 3-pointers for the Witches, 11 of them in fact.
Scoring for Brewer were, Brady Saunders with a game high 18 points; Brock Flagg 13; Aaron Newcomb 12; Evan nadeau nine; Colby Smith eight; Ryder Goodwin and Cameron Hughes six each; Kyle Horr and Branden Carr three each; and Aiden Davis and Titus Philbrick two each.
Brewer was 13-of-15 (87 percent) from the foul line and as mentioned had 11 3-pointers, four from Saunders, two from, Nadeau, Smith, and Newcomb while Horr added one.
For Messalonskee, Daniel Parent and 12 points; Aiden Doran, Sam Dube, and Merrick Smith six each; Walter Fegel and Jacob Love three each; and Brayden Mayo and Drake Brunelle two each.
The Eagles were 4-of-9 (44 percent) from behind the charity stripe. They knocked down six 3-pointers, four from Parent; and one each from, Fegel and Love.
Brewer goes to 10-1 with the win while Messalonskee falls to 0-11.
The Witches will be back home again on Monday, Jan. 24 in a makeup game against Lawrence.
MESSALONSKEE---12---9---12---7---40
BREWER--------------14--22---23--23--82
JV GAME
Messalonskee 40, Brewer 37
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FRESHMEN GAME
Brewer 47, Messalonskee 13
BREWER – The Brewer boys basketball program showed today why they are in first place in the Heal Point standings in Class A North. Even when the game does not go as they would like, the Witches continue doing the basics and escape a second half shooing shortcoming for the 79-66 win.
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| Brewer's Evan Nadeau (1) does what he does, playing defense as Mt. Blue's Zach Poisson tries to get by while the entire "Black Out" Brewer Student Section (not all shown) watches intently! Brewer won this game over Mt. Blue 79-66. (Photo by Ron Hawkes/MSR) |
BANGOR – The Bangor boys basketball team tried it's best as Brewer just kept the pace up and while one team would get just a little lead it was not until late in the fourth quarter that Brewer was just too much and the fact they were 8-of-8 from the foul line and 14-of-14 in the second half proved to be costly for the Rams.
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| A time out with just over a minute in the game results in an easy layup for the Witches to seal the game. Brewer won 75-70. (Photo by Ron Hawkes) |
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) |
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) |
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