BANGOR — When Scott Wing started as the junior varsity girls basketball coach at Monmouth Academy, he and then head coach Rick Amero decided to start building their program from the bottom up.

AUGUSTA — Despite being the regional championship between the top two seeded teams in the Class D South boys’ bracket, No.

BANGOR — The defending two-time state champion Houlton High School Shiretowners were clinging to a one-point lead with 2:25 remaining in the Class B North championship after the determined Foxcroft Academy Ponies had rallied from a 10-point, second-half deficit.

BANGOR — The Dexter Regional High School girls basketball team isn’t going to wow opponents with slick ball handling, nifty dribble-penetration sequences and lots of 3-pointers.

BANGOR — The Maine Association of Basketball Coaches recently announced that four players from the region have been chosen for the 2017 Maine McDonald’s Senior All-Star Games on Saturday, March 11 at Newman Gymnasium on the campus of Husson University.

BUCKSPORT — The Foxcroft Academy wrestling team finished in fifth place, out of a field of 28 schools, at the 2017 Class B state championship on Feb.

LEWISTON — Foxcroft Academy senior Evan Chadbourne finished sixth in the 55 meters at the 2017 Class B indoor track and field championship on Feb.

BANGOR — Having faced each other six times over the last two seasons, there is plenty of familiarity between the Foxcroft Academy and Central girls basketball teams.

AUGUSTA – On Feb.

CARIBOU — The Foxcroft Academy Ponies, led by 132-pound champion R.

Both the Foxcroft Academy girls and boys swim teams were in action at the Penobscot Valley Conference championships over the weekend.

ORONO — Senior sprinter Evan Chadbourne scored all eight of the Foxcroft Academy boys’ points during the 2017 Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League Championship on Feb.

DEXTER — Megan Peach admitted that last week’s season-ending 48-32 victory over Stearns High of Millinocket “couldn’t have been scripted any better.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Class B high school wrestling season in eastern and northern Maine has had an uncommon air of unpredictability about it this winter.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A sole point yielded in the first quarter and five field goals surrendered all game helped the Foxcroft Academy girls earn a 36-21 victory over Dexter Regional during a Class B North/Class C North interclass contest between the Route 7 rivals on the evening of Feb.

GREENVILLE JUNCTION — Piscataquis Community Secondary School seventh- and eighth-graders recently embarked on an adventure at Squaw Mountain.

ORONO — The Foxcroft Academy girls and boys indoor track and field teams each concluded the regular season with a Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet on Feb.

GUILFORD — A 19-8 first quarter advantage and a 14-point effort by junior Bryce Gilbert in the opening eight minutes helped propel Piscataquis Community High School to a 60-39 victory vs.