Baseball and softball teams in the region are off to a particularly late start, and athletic directors and coaches are frantically trying to piece together their schedules so that all the games will be played by the mandated cutoff date of May 30 established by the Maine Principals’ Association .
Local track and field teams ventured downstate Saturday, with Presque Isle participating in a meet held at Mount Desert Island Regional High School and Caribou, Washburn and Fort Fairfield, all in Dover-Foxcroft.
Last weekend’s track and field meets marked the first time on a track for Aroostook County squads, but there were still some strong individual efforts turned in by many local athletes.
The Tigers have a few holes to fill from last year’s team that made it all the way to the Class D North championship baseball game, but plenty of key players return as they attempt to make another strong run in the playoffs.
The regular season is scheduled to open soon for the Washburn varsity baseball team, with a number of positional battles still being contested to try to determine a starting lineup.
The Tigers won only four softball games all of last season in Vaughn McLaughlin’s first year as head coach
Chalk up five more victories for the University of Maine at Presque Isle softball team.
Three years after winning the school’s first regional championship, the Vikings were in rebuild mode last season.
With last year’s primary pitcher, Rachel Soucy, one of three Vikings who graduated, second-year coach Kayla Richards is trying to patch together a pitching staff that can help get her team back into the postseason.
Eight starters return for coach Terry Hunter’s Ashland Hornets, which last year came close to knocking off the No. 1 team in the Class D North softball playoff quarterfinals.
