Bonny Eagle Middle School athletes took top honors in four weight classes and nine other Scots finished among the top four at Saturday’s Eagle Wrestling Invitational in Windham. “This is the most important tournament during the year because this is where we get a chance to demonstrate how much we’ve improved during the whole year,” […]
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Scots win travel league title The Bonny Eagle 7th & 8th grade team won this year’s Saco Travel Basketball League championship. They are (front Row, left to right) Dylan Doyon, Aaron Bray, Aaron Braxton, Kyle Jandreau, Matthew Tarsetti and Nathan Colpitts; (back row) Jack Bilotta, Dylan Bullinger, Scott Eugley, Tom Carrier, Hung Nguyen, Zack Whittier, […]
Lake Region HS winter review
Girls Basketball 2006 Record 21-1 Coach Paul True Season Highlight Winning the Western Maine finals and playing in the state championship game. Seniors Kate Callahan, Shannon Morton and Samantha Allen Awards Samantha Allen: Miss Basketball finalist, Mike DiRenzo Award (Western Maine tournament MVP), McDonald’s all-state, McDonald’s all-academic and SMAA first-team all-star; Kate Callahan: SMAA first-team […]
Nothing to hang their heads about: Lake Region's girls fall short in first state final appearance since 1977
They didn’t leave Bangor with the hardware they’d hoped for, but they didn’t leave empty handed, either. The Lake Region girls (21-1) came back to Naples with the Class B basketball runner-up plaque Friday and, more importantly, with memories of a fantastic season that took them to the championship game and thrilled their fanatical followers, […]
Lake Region girls hoop: Reporter's notebook
About 90 minutes before the tip-off of their state championship game, the girls of Lake Region wandered onto the basketball court of the Bangor Auditorium. Except for a few facility staff people and one reporter, the arena was empty. On either side of the floor the stands rose steeply. The players looked around, no doubt […]
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Branch to swim at New Englands Bonny Eagle junior Hannah Branch is scheduled to compete Saturday in the New England High School Swim Championships at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Branch, who won the 100 freestyle and finshed second in the 200 individual medley at the Class A state meet, qualified to swim in […]
Windham golfers have a place to practice in winter
With no indoor golf training facilities located in the community, Windham High School coach Roger Young has set up a place for his athletes to practice putting and chipping during the off-season. “The purpose was to have an area where members of the team and potential members could improve their short game during the winter,” […]
Windham & Lake Region compete in state ski meet
Windham’s boys were in the lead after last Tuesday’s giant slalom race at Mt. Abram, but three of six skiers fell the following day and the Eagles had to settle for sixth place in the field of 12 at the Class A state skiing championships. Still, the program, which was started just a few years […]
Heading north in search of Gold: Lady Lakers win Western Maine, play for state crown
After beating York easily twice during the regular season, the Lake Region girls basketball team found themselves down by a bucket to the Wildcats after two quarters of the Class B Western Maine championship game Saturday. The Lakers didn’t look completely comfortable on the court. The offense wasn’t flowing, and the normally stingy defense hadn’t […]
True to the game: Lake Region father and son share the bench
When Harry True tells the story of how he chose his wife, Sandra, the setting is, of course, a basketball court. “She is the only one who could beat me in 21,” the 78-year-old True says, “so I married her.” Family and basketball are still intertwined for the man who has been teaching the sport […]