Clark honored by MABC with Media Award

BANGOR — The Maine Association of Basketball Coaches (MABC) presented its Media Award to Ernie Clark of Dover-Foxcroft. The award for outstanding coverage of Maine high school basketball was presented at the 2016 Maine McDonald’s High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games awards banquet on March 11.

Clark has covered Maine high school sports as a reporter and broadcaster for three decades. He has worked as a sports reporter and editor at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, editor of Maine RoundBall Magazine, host of a sports talk show for WZON radio in Bangor and color commentator and interviewer for Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s coverage of the high school basketball tournaments and more recently has been a contributor to the 92.9 The Ticket all-sports radio station in Bangor.

Now a sports reporter for the Bangor Daily News and Piscataquis Observer, covering primarily high school sports, Clark is a four-time recipient of the Maine Sportswriter of the Year award as presented by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He was a 2015 inductee into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.

“The MABC would like to thank Ernie Clark for his coverage of Maine high school basketball for more than 30 years,” said Peter Murray, MABC president. “We are honoring Ernie this weekend with MABC’s Media Award for his commitment to exceptional high school basketball reporting.”

Clark has been recognized by the Maine Press Association, the Maine Association of Broadcasters and the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. He has been honored by the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League, USA Track and Field Racewalking and the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

A graduate of Foxcroft Academy, Clark likes to say his impact as a guard on Pony varsity basketball teams that compiled a 10-26 record during his two-year career helped lead him to seek another pathway to riches. Graduating from the University of Maine with bachelor’s degrees in history and journalism, he has spent more than three decades as a sportswriter and broadcaster in central and eastern Maine.