One might call it a great escape for the top-ranked, unbeaten team or a surprising performance by the lower-seeded, nothing-to-lose squad, but when those who witnessed Saturday afternoon’s thrilling, down-to-the-wire Eastern Class B quarterfinal playoff game...
It always is somewhat of a mystery and challenge when a team faces an opponent for the first time, and those two things are magnified when that meeting is on one of Maine’s grandest high school basketball stages. That was the scenario that faced the Mount Desert...
The Mount Desert Island girls basketball team faced its first dilemma of the 2011-12 season Tuesday night as the No. 5 Trojans hosted No. 12 Waterville in an Eastern Class B preliminary playoff game. The dilemma? Win or go home. And, fortunately for Trojan fans...
The Mount Desert Island cheering squad, along with the 11 other participating teams who qualified, left it all on the floor Feb. 11 at the state Class B championships at the Augusta Civic Center. And just as it did for many of the other schools, the competition season...
It appears the only team in Eastern Maine that has more talent and depth than the Mount Desert Island swimming and diving squad is Bangor. Of course, Bangor is a larger, Class A school, while MDI toils in Class B. With that stated, expect the Trojans to fare well at...
