David Barber

Asst. Sports Editor

 
Club sports report

TOPSoccer gives lift for children with disabilities

By Dave Barber on May 19, 2012, at 12:46 p.m.
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

By Dave Barber on May 18, 2012, at 2:25 p.m.
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
John Snyer, owner of Hermon Meadow Golf Club, with clubhouse in background.

Golfers like shorter distances from gold, orange tees at Hermon Meadow

By Dave Barber on May 16, 2012, at 5:45 a.m.
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 University of Maine women’s basketball standout Emily Ellis (right) looks on as new UM women’s basketball coach Richard Barron is congratulated by UM Athletic Director Steve Abbott last May. Ellis is being inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Former UMaine basketball star Emily Ellis never backed down

By Dave Barber on May 14, 2012, at 3:03 p.m.
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

By Dave Barber on May 11, 2012, at 6:08 p.m.
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
Noah Parker

Maine soccer’s Olympic Development Program gaining speed

By Dave Barber on May 11, 2012, at 3:25 p.m.
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
Rockland Community Sailing youths participate in a race.

Club sports outside mainstream — such as sailing — also face money problems, preconceptions

By Dave Barber on May 09, 2012, at 8:33 p.m.
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
Soccer-hungry kids from Greater Bangor in the Under-11 and Under-12 age groups participate in a Blackbear United Football Club training session at the Husson University soccer pitch in Bangor in April.

Youth sports can be expensive, but they aren’t played by just the wealthy

By Dave Barber on May 08, 2012, at 5:29 p.m.
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

Dave Utterback named Brewer High School athletic director

By Dave Barber on May 07, 2012, at 8:52 p.m.
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
John Dickinson of Winterport targets the first hole at Bangor Municipal Golf Course as he plays his first round of golf of the spring on April 26, 2012. Tending the flag is Robert Treworgy of Hampden.

Unusual early weather isn’t hurting Maine golf courses

By Dave Barber on May 04, 2012, at 10:44 p.m.
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

By Dave Barber on May 04, 2012, at 6:32 p.m.
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 coach Shelly Tennett and Trey Tennett.

Bangor Soccer Club spring program has mushroomed to 930 participants by stressing fun

By Dave Barber on May 04, 2012, at 4:31 p.m.
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

Abby Spector named first female head golf pro at Sugarloaf Golf Club

By Dave Barber on April 30, 2012, at 4:46 p.m.
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
Stuart Cady, an Orono native, is the new head golf pro at Renaissance Golf Club in Haverhill, Mass.

Orono native Cady moves up to head golf pro post in Massachusetts

By Dave Barber on April 26, 2012, at 6:56 p.m.
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
Christopher Johnson of Hampden takes a splash on the rain-soaked field to snatch up the ball during Eastern Maine Youth Lacrosse practice on Union Street in Bangor, Monday, April 23, 2012.

Young lacrosse players eager for their first games

By Dave Barber on April 25, 2012, at 4:48 p.m.
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 ...

George Stevens Softball 0 at Mount Desert Island 12

By Dave Barber on April 19, 2012, at 4:30 p.m.
Alexa Coulombe, McAuley

36th BDN All-Maine girls basketball team: Coulombe, Koizar, Gribbin, Diplock, Anderson on first team

By Dave Barber on April 13, 2012, at 6:37 p.m.
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

By Dave Barber on April 04, 2012, at 7:19 p.m.
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

By Dave Barber on April 04, 2012, at 5:44 a.m.
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 ...
Maine’s Matt Mangene (left) tries to get to a loose puck in front of Minnesota-Duluth goaltender  Kenny Reiter as Reiter gets help from teammates Brady Lamb (2) Drew Olsen and Derik Johnson (4) during their Northeast Regional contest on March 24 in Worcester, Mass. Mangene has left the Bears a year early to pursue a pro hockey career.

UMaine’s Mangene signs contract with Flyers; teams pursue Diamond

By Dave Barber on April 02, 2012, at 6:26 p.m.
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 ...
 
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