By Jon Gulliver
Staff writer

The Limestone Community School/ MSSM girls’ basketball team has come a long way since a 2-16 season in 2010-11. This year the Eagles posted a 9-9 record, which was good for 10th place in Eastern Maine Class D and a spot in the preliminary round of the playoffs.

Seniors Amanada Allen and Stephanie Leighton are called on for points, as well as junior Danielle Pelkey and sophomore Melissa Cantafio.

The prelim game was played last night in Hodgdon No. 7. The two teams split on the regular season.

Before the season coach Robert Hancock outlined his keys to the season.

“To pride ourselves in playing tough defense and above all play hard,” he said.

The winner of the Hodgdon and LCS/MSSM game will face the winner Fort Fairfield No. 2 and Southern Aroostook No. 15 in the quarterfinal round of the tournament.

The LCS/MSSM boys finished the regular season at 7-11, just missing a playoff spot in the Heal Point standings by less than a point and half. Fort Fairfield grabbed the final prelim spot. Limestone and Fort Fairfield split on the season.

Final Heal Point standings

By Jon Gulliver
Staff writer

The Caribou Vikings entered the 2011-12 basketball season with more question marks than answers. The team lost four of five starters from the year before, and the bench had little varsity experience. Making the postseason for a sixth consecutive year was a challenge, but one the team met.

Nobody in my immediate family harbored much interest in rabbit hunting during my high school years so I set out to learn about the sport on my own. Although I enjoyed snowshoeing throughout the nearby woodlots, my first couple of outings were scenic and invigorating, yet rabbit sightings were rare and shooting success nonexistent. Thankfully, a random meeting with a veteran snowshoe hare hunter put me on the right track, and I’m still at it 40-years later.

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Local guide Tom Tardiff hunkers down to get a better shot at a snowshoe hare that thought it was well hidden in the fluffy snow under a fir tree, but the black eyes and twitching ears gave its location away.

CARIBOU — The Caribou Parks and Recreation Department has posted their February vacation schedule, which has a little something for all youngsters.

On Friday, Feb. 17, the Caribou Ski Sprints will be held at the Teague Park Ski Trails at 4 p.m. There will be divisions for middle school, high school and open. The race is a 1km freestyle/skate. Skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating will be available under the lights.

Caribou “Bud Light” Couples League

1. Tammy and Glenn Nadeau (63-41), 2. Kelly McBreairty and Joel Wardwell (60-44), 3. (tie) Marie and Donnie Anderson and Freda Mosley and Ralph Ostlund (57-47), 5. (tie) Lisa Brissette and Jouhn Bougie and Maryanne and Eric Scott (56-48), 7. Renee Bell and Jerry Kinney (54-42), 8. Sheila and Craig Gustafson (50-38), 9. Jane and Jack Foster (46-50), 10. Tammy Thomas and Byron Skidgel (43-53), 11. Liz Dionne and Justin Quinones (42-62), 12. Darlene and Phil Caverhill (40-56) and 13. Theresa and Terry Cochran (24-72).

MILO — Two young mushers from Stockholm recently recorded wins at the Maine Highland Sled Dog Club’s third annual sprint race.

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Stockholm’s Josh (left) and Carter Quist (right) recently won sled dog races in Milo.

FORT KENT — The Alpine portions of the Aroostook County High School Ski Championships were held on Saturday at Lonesome Pine in Fort Kent and the Warriors swept both the slalom and giant slalom for both girls and boys.

In the girls’ slalom race, Fort Kent scored 10 points, followed by Presque Isle (46), Central Aroostook (55) and Caribou (67).

Roxy Pelletier was the race winner with a combined time of her two runs at 1:31.04.

Local skiers in the top 15 were: 5, Chelsey Carroll, PI, 1:36.60; 7, Samantha Kearney, CAHS, 1:40.55; 8, Emma Bartlett, PI, 1:41.02; 10, Ginger Kieffer, CAR, 1:41.37; 11, Marissa Smith, CAHS, 1:44.43; 13, Whitney Cote, CAHS, 1:45.24; 14, Katie Plourde, CAR, 1:45.25; and 15, Jolana Gough, PI, 1:45.72.

KONTIOLATHI, Finland — Russell Currier of Stockholm showed the world this week that he is no one hit wonder.

By Jon Gulliver
Staff writer

The preliminary round of the high school basketball playoffs wraps up this evening and on Friday the games begin at the Bangor Auditorium.

MADAWASKA — The Caribou Vikings Nordic team continued their winning ways, capturing the first leg of the Aroostook County Ski Championships. Both the boys and girls won the 5k classical meet at Madawaska on Feb. 7.