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.

BUCKSPORT — The area’s three high school wrestling teams were among those competing in the Bucksport (High School) Invitational Classic on Jan.

ORONO — The Foxcroft Academy girls and boys indoor track and field teams each finished eighth in a field of eight schools at a Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League meet on Jan.