Coaches in the Downeast Athletic Conference met this week and selected members of the 1992 DAC All-Star girls basketball and cheerleading teams.
Teams in the DAC include Calais, Jonesport-Beals, Lubec, Machias, Narragaugus of Harrington, Shead of Eastport, and Washington Academy of East Machias.
With the exception of the girls from Lubec, Eastern Maine basketball fans will have an opportunity to see members of these All-Star teams this week as they play and cheer in the Class C and D tournaments at the Bangor Auditorium.
Narraguagus placed the most girls on the DAC All-Star basketball team with three earning all-conference honors: Sara Cashman, Gladys Ganiel, and Heather Strout.
Three teams placed two girls on the honor squad: Holly Bell and Tracy Mulholland, Calais; Lynette Beal and Sandi Carver, Jonesport-Beals; and Machias’ Becky Tower and Jamie Wood.
Completing the DAC basketball All-Star roster are Kari Dennison, Washington Academy; Marcie Gallant, Lubec, and Ivy Newcomb, Shead.
DAC Coach of the Year honors in basketball went to Bob McShane, coach of the defending Eastern Maine Class C champion Calais Blue Devils, who enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed with a record of 15-3.
In cheerleading, state Class C runnerup Washington Academy led the way in balloting with four team members earning honors.
Two-time state Class D champion Shead was a close second with three honorees, followed by two each from Jonesport-Beals and Calais, and one from Machias.
The 1992 DAC All-star cheerleaders are Calli Fitzhenry, Suzanne Gardner, Jenny Green, and Jessica Taylor, Washington Academy; Jennifer Bishop, Heather Brown and Sherrie Metcalf, Shead; Gretchen Backman and Laureen Barnes, Jonesport-Beals; Jen Beckett and Bethany Franklin, Calais; and Becky Borrycq, Machias.
Heidi Brown of Shead, who coached her Tiger cheerleading squad to a second consecutive state Class D title, was named DAC cheerleading Coach of the Year.
Congratulations to Lisa Towle, a freshman member of the Bowdoin College of Brunswick women’s basketball team. Towle recently set a Bowdoin record when she scored five 3-pointers in one game.
For the week ending Feb. 9, in which Towle set this mark, she was named Rookie of the Week by the Maine Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
In two games, Towle averaged 28 points per game, shooting 49 percent from the floor and 64 percent from the 3-point line.
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