A state championship, two Mountain Valley Coach of the Year nods and a girls soccer Player of the Year.
The say the least, it was a great 2012 fall sports season at Lisbon High School.
The Greyhounds captured their first State Class C championship in field hockey, downing Winthrop 2-1 at the University of Maine in Orono.
Second-year Lisbon coach Julie Wescott received the field hockey Coach of the Year nod, with players Hanna Jordan and Bailey Madore earning Mountain Valley Conference First- Team honors, while teammates Bailey Cutler and Ali Bubar were selected for the Second Team. Honorable mentions went to Jenn Smith and Mariah Breton.
“I am proud of the girls,” continued Wescott, who has been amazed by the public support after her team captured the Class C state title. “People we don’t know are coming up to us and saying ‘Congratulations!’ The community has taken to it and have been so supportive of the girls. It has been great.”
It was a fitting conclusion to the season, considering Lisbon went 13-0-1 in the regular season, bounced back from a 3-1 loss to the Ramblers in the MVC title game and rolled past Old Orchard Beach 7-2 in the Western C quarterfinals.
After a 2-1 victory over Traip Academy in the semifinals, the top-seeded ’Hounds got a measure of revenge in the Western C championship, downing North Yarmouth Academy 1-0 to advance to the state game.
One year earlier, it was NYA that ended the dreams of Wescott’s squad in the Western C semifinals in penalty corners. But, it was only a temporary setback, as Lisbon took home the prize this season.
Spruce Mountain’s Erin Gats was named the field hockey Player of the Year in the MVC.
Girls soccer
Jake Gentle, who began his first season at the helm of the Greyhound boys basketball team this week in the hopes he can do what he did in turning around the girls basketball program, now coached by Wescott, was named the girls soccer Coach of the Year after leading the Greyhounds to a 12-1-1 regular season and the No. 1 seed in Western C.
“It’s a nice award to get because you are selected by your peers, so it is very humbling,” said Gentle, who credited his players for this honor. “You can’t win this award without good kids and good soccer players. I was fortunate to have that.”
Lisbon’s dreams of a state title were dashed by a talented Waynflete squad in the Western C semifinals (4-0), but the work of striker Kayla Angelico didn’t go unnoticed as the senior garnered MVC Player of the Year honors.
“For her to win this is a culmination of four years of hard work,” said Gentle of his senior striker who scored 25 goals this season for a career total of 56, one behind Lisbon all-time leading goal scorer Ashley Beaulieu, and is the ’Hounds all-time leader in assists with 32. “Kayla has been there since day one of her freshman year and really deserved the award.”
Angelico was joined on the MVC First Team by senior flip-throw specialist and defensive guru Gabby Ouellette, while fellow defenseman Chantal Bisson was selected for the Second Team. Honorable Mention went to Kailyn Hill and Chelsea Huston.
In boys soccer, Colin Rush of Hall- Dale was selected as the Player of the Year and Andy Haskell (Hall-Dale) and Marty Bressler (St. Dom’s) shared the MVC Coach of the Year honor.
Lisbon’s Brady Fenderson and Brett Williams made the MVC Second Team, while teammates Logan McGuire and Nate Bergeron were Honorable Mentions.
And, in cross country, Bree Sautter made the MVC First Team, with Adrianna White and Caitlyn Bundy Honorable Mentions. For the boys, Nicholas Harriman earned Second Team honors, while teammates Ben Kates and Cote Brauneis ran to Honorable Mention spots.
Telstar’s Josef Holt-Andrews is the boys cross country Runner of the Year, while the MVC nod in girls cross country went to Boothbay’s Sophia Thayer.
Coaches of the Year were Hall-Dale’s Chris Poulin (boys) and Boothbay’s Nick Scott (girls).
Wiscasset
The Wolverines picked up several spots on the MVC All-star teams as well.
In golf, Cody Graves and Chandler Longfellow made the First Team, while Daren Wood picked up a Second Team nod. Tom Anderson rounded out the honors with an Honorable Mention.
Zach DeBlois of St. Dom’s and Kristina Robinson of Carrabec were selected as MVC Players of the Year, while Saints coach Kevin Cullen captured the Coach of the Year award.
Dale Peaslee (Second Team), JD Souza (Second), Zachary Ellison (Honorable) and Mason Whitaker (Honorable) were honored in boys soccer, while Duane Goud’s girls soccer squad, which fell in the Western C quarterfinals to Waynflete (2-1), featured Second Team selections of Hannah Foye and Sarah Hanley, with Bri Goud and Maeve Carlson Honorable Mentions.
In cross country, Honorable Mentions went to Kyle Shute, Heidi Pinkham and Alyssa Urquhart.
Academic All-stars were also announced, with Lisbon’s Aaron Halls, Angelico, Leah Goldsberry, Zachariah Cribbin and Rachel Bell making the grade, along with Shute, Pinkham, Urquhart, Alyssa Smith, Ellison and Ryan Hanley of Wiscasset.
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