The Viking wrestling team will have to overcome the loss of a 100-win wrestler and another who fell just short of that milestone if it wants to be able to compete in a loaded Penobscot Valley Conference and Class B division.
The Caribou boys and the Madawaska girls were the winning teams at the first Nordic ski meet of the season, a freestyle competition, held Wednesday, Dec. 19, at Caribou High School.
Two UMPI men’s basketball players and a Husson player from Washburn have picked up North Atlantic Conference weekly honors.
After not making it into the tournament since 2011, the Viking girls cracked the field a year ago under first-year head coach Kayla Brown.
The Hornet girls ended an 11-year drought by reaching the tournament last winter.
The Beavers did not have any seniors on the roster of last year’s team that made it into the Class D playoffs.
Kyle Corrigan, Ben Rosser and Jeremiah Fitzherbert were teammates on the Caribou Vikings a decade ago and now they make up the coaching staff for their alma mater, which has the makeup to be a top-flight team in the Big East Conference and in Class B North as a whole.
A winless season was difficult to swallow for players and the coaching staff for the Washburn Beavers.
The Carlisle swim team on Friday competed in its second meet of the season and its first away from home.
It took two totally different ways to pull it off, but the Presque Isle hockey team swept its weekend opponents in matches held at Penobscot Ice Arena.
