By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The top-seeded Dexter High School girls held eighth seed Mount View of Thorndike to one first-half point in building a 23-1 lead and cruised to a 43-20 Class C North quarterfinal win at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Tuesday night.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The top-seeded Calais High School boys basketball team scored the game’s first 25 points en route to a 57-33 Class C North quarterfinal win over undermanned eighth seed Piscataquis Community High School of Guilford at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor Tuesday night.

LEWISTON — Three athletes between Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community High School scored points at the 2024 Class B indoor track and field state championship at Bates College on Monday, Feb.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Her jacket sleeve is still frozen and the garment smells too fishy to bring into the family’s camp, but Rachel McMannus of Old Town is all smiles.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The No.

RUMFORD — The Piscataquis Community High School wrestling team finished the day with a score of 53 points to place eighth among 25 schools at the 2024 Class B championship at Mountain Valley High School on Saturday, Feb.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff After playing her first three high school basketball tournaments at the Bangor Auditorium, Van Buren High School star Parise Rossignol got off the bus her senior year to play at the brand new $65 million Cross Insurance Center, which had replaced the Bangor Auditorium.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Fans of the boys and girls high school basketball tournaments who can’t make it to the venues can watch nearly every dribble and shot thanks to livestreaming provided by three organizations: the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Network, WHOU and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

FORT KENT — Dexter Regional High School finished in second place at the 2024 Class B North wrestling championship Saturday, Feb.

GREENVILLE — The Wilderness Sled Dog Racing Association hosted the annual races on Feb.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Ellsworth High School won its first state Class B cheerleading championship a year ago and made it two in a row on Saturday, Feb.

By Aislinn Sarnacki “Beware!” a sign reads at the trailhead for Peregrine Ridge.

ORONO — The Foxcroft Academy boys scored 46 points to place fourth among eight schools at the 2024 Eastern Maine Indoor Track League Small School championship at the University of Maine’s New Balance Field House on Feb.

By Tim Obrey, Moosehead Lake Region regional fisheries supervisor I’m hoping this is the last time I will have to write a report on Big Wadleigh Pond.

Foxcroft Academy senior Jadon Richard has been named to the Big East Conference 2023-24 Week 8 honor roll, the third such recognition of the season for him as he was also chosen in Week 1 and Week 5.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Chris Parent caught his winning togue on the first day of the three-day Moosehead Lake Fishing Derby.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff A new free-standing sign went up in LL Bean’s fishing department last week instructing fishermen on how to properly attach and dispose of their soft plastic bait, often referred to as rubber worms.

AUGUSTA — The Dexter Regional High School cheer team finished in second place at the 2024 Class C North championship on Saturday, Feb.