Category: Sports

This week’s athlete of the week is Tiffany Jones, women’s basketball forward/guard

Weekly update of sports scores

It’s March and that means only one thing around the Gorham campus: playoffs. Once again the USM women’s basketball team is well on its way to continuing its eight-year streak of appearing in the NCAA women’s tournament.

In a few short weeks the USM spring sports schedule starts its 2003 campaign. This week we preview baseball, softball, and men’s lacrosse.

Asked to recall the worst accident he encountered in his career, Head Athletic Trainer Matt Gerken recalled a hockey player a few years back who slit his leg with a skate. Blood went everywhere, but the athletic trainer on duty handled the situation as prescribed and applied pressure to the wound and then aided the doctor.

This week’s athlete of the week is Kara Crockett, a Forward/Center from Glenburn, ME.

Weekly sports scores and upcoming schedule

For the past few weeks it has become a frequent occurrence to see multiple Huskies named players of the week by their respective conferences. Last week was no exception.

Scenes from men and women’s basketball games.

This week’s athlete of the week is Jason Levecque, a men’s basketball guard

Meet Athlete of the Week Phil Hamilton, wrestling team co-captain

Tiffany Jones once again leads the Southern Maine Huskies’ honor roll for this week by earning her fourth straight Little East Conference Rookie of the Week award. No other player in Little East women’s basketball has been honored as many times (six) as Jones this season.

It comes as no surprise that track and field as a whole goes quite unnoticed in everyday life. Most Americans only know about it every four years when the Olympics roll around and are broadcast for two and a half weeks. It is then that people become knowledgeable about the events included in a track and field meet.

Weekly sports scores and upcoming schedule

Weekly sports scores and schedule

When watching college sports either in person or on television, it is very easy to get lost in the on-field performance of a freshman athlete. Most times it is those performances of the athlete that we remember without considering the pressures the scholar athlete encounters throughout the first year of college life.

This week the USM athletics program had three athletes named players of the week in their respective leagues.

Athlete of the Week: Karen Jamnik, USM Women’s Hockey Goalie

This week’s report of the latest sports scores and upcoming schedule

New England has a rich tradition of sending a multitude of players to the National Hockey League. The University of Maine Black Bears hockey program had eight players, including Scott Pellerin and Paul Kariya, move from Orono to the pros. Yet, from attendance figures at the Costello Sports Complex, it is apparent that fans have little interest in ice hockey.

Little Dribblers of Grey-New Gloucester keep the crowd moving during the halftime show.

Weekly sports schedule and past week’s scores

The 2002-2003 Husky men’s basketball season has all the elements of a made-for-television drama, including changes in the cast of players, heartbreak, joy, disappointment, and the trials and tribulations of a young family going through its growing pains.

This week the USM winter athletics program had three of its players named players of the week by their respective leagues.