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Club sports report
TOPSoccer gives lift for children with disabilities
BANGOR, Maine — From early October until late April, Fridays include a treat for Loren Miller’s foster son, Matthew. It’s his weekly visit to Fields4Kids to take part in the U.S. Youth Soccer Association’s TOPSoccer. Matthew and his classmates have special needs, and their weekly trips to work on drills ...
Wilson was just grateful for a chance to play for Husson
Editor’s note: One in a series profiling the 2012 Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. BREWER, Maine — In Dana Wilson’s freshman season with the Husson College men’s basketball team in 1970, the 6-foot-2 guard was a role player waiting his turn. That came earlier than he expected, in a ...
GOLF SCENE
Golfers like shorter distances from gold, orange tees at Hermon Meadow
HERMON, Maine — It’s not a new idea, putting in additional tee blocks to make a course more length-appropriate for certain groups of golfers. Some clubs just might take longer to do it. Reality is all in the mind of the golfer, though, as John Snyer, who bought Hermon Meadow ...
Former UMaine basketball star Emily Ellis never backed down
Editor’s note: This story is one in a series profiling the 2012 Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. BANGOR, Maine — When Emily Ellis played for the University of Maine women’s basketball team in the early 1980s, she played all out all the time, she said. “The Northeasterns, the BUs ...
SoccerMaine Olympic Development Program
Players from Blackbear United of Bangor GIRLS U-17 Analies Dyjak, Max McHugh, Anna Michaud, Grace Maclean, Tiffany Gray U-16 Abby Pyne, Kaitlyn Saulter, Maddie Page, Amanda Allen U-15 Diana Tyutyunnyk, Ali Boulier, Pilar Elias, Claire Petersen, Emily Berry, Faith Forsythe, Anna-Maria Dagher U-14 Opal Curless, Paige Mason, Audrey Davis U-13 ...
CLUB SPORTS REPORT
Maine soccer’s Olympic Development Program gaining speed
BANGOR, Maine — Abby Pyne of Dixmont showed soccer players in Maine that they, too, could succeed after she earned a spot on the U.S. Soccer Association’s Under-15 Girls National Team last year. Currently, she’s on the U.S. Soccer Association Region I Olympic Development Program U-16 team (1996 birth year). ...
CLUB SPORTS REPORT
Club sports outside mainstream — such as sailing — also face money problems, preconceptions
ROCKLAND, Maine — Clubs outside the youth sports mainstream, such as sailing, have issues that parallel those that crop up in mainstream sports. Erica Crain of Warren, whose twin daughters, Isabella and Louisa, are in the Rockland Community Sailing program, feels people draw the wrong conclusion about her girls’ sport. ...
Club Sports Report
Youth sports can be expensive, but they aren’t played by just the wealthy
BANGOR, Maine — Baxter Cole, the young son of Charles Cole of Bangor, repeatedly told his father he wanted to play youth hockey. The cost of such an undertaking can be daunting for youth sports that involve a lot of potentially expensive equipment. “To be honest, we stayed away from ...
Dave Utterback named Brewer High School athletic director
BREWER, Maine — David Utterback of Brewer was approved by the Brewer School Committee Monday night as the new Brewer High School athletic director. “This is what I’ve always wanted to do,” said Utterback, who was selected from a field of more than 30 applicants. He graduated from Husson University ...
GOLF SCENE
Unusual early weather isn’t hurting Maine golf courses
BANGOR, Maine — Temperatures ranging from highs in the 80s in March to lows in the teens in late April, punctuated with stretches of dry weather and occasional downpours, apparently haven’t hurt conditions at Maine golf courses. Still, golf club pros are seeing an occasional oddity. “Some of the turf ...
Tickets still available for Maine Sports Hall of Fame awards banquet
WATERVILLE, Maine — The Maine Sports Hall of Fame Awards Banquet is scheduled for May 20 at the Bangor Civic Center and tickets remain available for the 37th annual event. Tickets are $40 for members of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame and $45 for nonmembers. A reserved table of ...
Club Sports Report
Bangor Soccer Club spring program has mushroomed to 930 participants by stressing fun
BANGOR, Maine — For several years, the growth rate for the Bangor Soccer Club spring program reportedly was averaging 8 to 10 percent. Not this year. It’s up at twice that rate. Last year, there were about 780 boys and girls in prekindergarten through middle school age groups. This year ...
Abby Spector named first female head golf pro at Sugarloaf Golf Club
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Abby Spector has been named the first female head golf professional at Sugarloaf Golf Club, the club announced Monday. Spector, 31 and a Waterville native, said she applied for the job in mid-March after seeing it posted on a PGA website. “I was looking for a ...
Golf Scene
Orono native Cady moves up to head golf pro post in Massachusetts
HAVERHILL, Mass. — Upon graduating from Orono High School in 2000, Stuart Cady started pursuing a career as a golf pro. His determination and perseverance have landed him the job as head golf pro at Renaissance Golf Club, an upscale facility in Haverhill, Mass. “I had an ambitious five-year plan ...
Club Sports Report
Young lacrosse players eager for their first games
BANGOR, Maine — More than 20 members of Eastern Maine Youth Lacrosse braved Monday’s wind and rain to participate in a practice at Union Street Fields. The first real lacrosse games most of them will have played takes place Saturday and Sunday, and Eastern Maine Youth Lacrosse’s 93 players are ...
36th BDN All-Maine girls basketball team: Coulombe, Koizar, Gribbin, Diplock, Anderson on first team
BANGOR, Maine — Alexa Coulombe of Catherine McAuley High School in Portland changed her position and style of play for her final season of high school girls basketball. What didn’t change was her effect, as she led McAuley to its second-straight state Class A championship in March. The impression she ...
Golf scores, April 4, 2012
Golf MSGA At Old Marsh CC, Wells Team, gross: David Simpson, Jay Moore, Jeff Sullivan, Paul Marquis 61; Chris Seavey, Jamie Boutin, Jim Raye, Ricky Jones 63; net: (tie) Bob Libby, Dan King, Phil Dube, Tom Plante 57, and David Sands, Ken Sands, Larry Sands, Sokha Meas 57; Matt Szklarz, ...
Club sports report
Glenburn’s Mikayla McLaughlin adds to family’s hockey tradition with national title
FRISCO, Texas — It was almost as if Mikayla McLaughlin of Glenburn could feel her older sister, Katie, sitting on her shoulder. “I felt the pressure. If we didn’t win, it would be almost as if we didn’t live up to expectations,” she said of the Tier II Girls Under-16 ...
UMaine’s Mangene signs contract with Flyers; teams pursue Diamond
ORONO, Maine — Matt Mangene, a junior on this year’s University of Maine men’s hockey team, has signed an entry-level contract with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. “He’d been pursued quite aggressively by several teams in the second half of the season,” said Maine coach Tim Whitehead. “There were [about] a ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Diversity predicts export success, MIT professor tells Maine audience
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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