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Brock Bradford, a junior point guard who helped guide the Calvary Chapel Christian School boys basketball program from its infancy to the 2004 Class D state championship and a berth in the 2005 regional semifinals, has transferred to Bangor Christian School.
The 6-foot-1 Bradford is now attending classes at Bangor Christian, according to his father, Ross Bradford, who also has stepped down as the Calvary Chapel boys basketball coach after three seasons.
Ross Bradford cited personal reasons for his resignation and the decisions of Brock Bradford and his younger brother Brett, an eighth-grader, to transfer from Calvary Chapel to Bangor Christian.
“The family wanted to make a move,” Ross Bradford said, “and Brock wanted to continue with his Christian education. He’s been in Christian schools all his life.”
Brock Bradford attended Bangor Christian during his elementary school years and also as an eighth-grader before moving to Calvary Chapel as a freshman when the Orrington school opened in 2002.
In its first year as a varsity basketball program, Calvary Chapel reached the Eastern Maine Class D quarterfinals before losing a narrow decision to Bangor Christian.
In the 2003-04 season, a Calvary Chapel squad led by Bradford, his older brother Kyle, and Josh Madden went undefeated and won the state Class D title by edging six-time defending champion Valley of Bingham 72-69 in the state final at the Augusta Civic Center. In that game, Brock Bradford, then a sophomore, scored 24 points and dished out eight assists to spark the victory.
This past season, Bradford averaged 31 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and four steals per game in leading Calvary Chapel to a 16-2 regular-season record and the No. 3 seed in Eastern D. The Sabers advanced to the semifinals before dropping a 66-60 decision to eventual state champion Central Aroostook of Mars Hill.
Bangor Christian finished the 2004-05 regular season with a 7-11 record and qualified for the Eastern D preliminary round as the No. 11 seed. The Patriots, Eastern D champions in 2002 and 2003, lost at No. 6 Deer Isle-Stonington 54-51 in their preliminary round contest.
PTC B grid schedule formalized
Eastern Maine Class B football will have a new format next fall. Pine Tree Conference Class B athletic directors have approved a new two-division, eight-game regular season designed to accommodate the growth of the division from nine to 12 teams.
Change was needed when Gardiner and Waterville opted to drop to Class B from the PTC Class A ranks, and Maranacook of Readfield was elevated from the LTC Class C to Class B.
What has resulted, according to Winslow athletic director Sean Keenan, are North and South divisions.
In the North are Belfast, Brewer, Hampden Academy, Mount Desert Island, Old Town, and Winslow. In the South are Gardiner, Leavitt of Turner Center, Maranacook, Morse of Bath, Oak Hill of Wales, and Waterville.
Under the new two-year schedule, each team will play all teams within its division, as well as three teams in the other division.
The interdivisional matchups were developed, according to Brewer athletic director Dennis Kiah, based on power ratings developed through the input of coaches and athletic directors, with one goal to minimize the number of lopsided contests. As a result, the strongest North Division teams in recent years will play the strongest South Division teams in crossover contests, while rebuilding teams from each division will square off against each other.
As an example, Brewer was ranked second in the North Division power ratings, and its crossover games will be at home against Morse, at Waterville and at Gardiner. Those contests are the first three games on Brewer’s schedule next season.
In fact, most of the crossover games will be played during the first five weeks of the schedule, according to Keenan. The primary exception is that traditional central Maine foes Waterville and Winslow will renew their gridiron rivalry on the final Saturday of the regular season. In recent years, with Waterville in Class A and Winslow in Class B, those neighboring teams have met in an exhibition contest.
The regular season will be followed by three rounds of conference playoffs, up from two rounds in recent years. With the additional round of playoffs brought on by the increased membership in the league, there will be no more games against foes from Western Maine Class B as was the case in 2004.
“There was a lot of give and take in this,” said Keenan. “Everyone had a voice in it. I’d be very surprised if everyone got everything they wanted out of this, but I’d also be very surprised if everyone didn’t get at least something they wanted.”
Two football coaches named
Steve Stinson, a former football standout at Portland High School and the University of Maine, has been named the head football coach at South Portland High School.
The hiring of Stinson, who spent the last three years as the head coach at Greely of Cumberland Center, was approved by the South Portland school board Monday night.
Stinson replaces Bob Zinchuk, who was not rehired after compiling a 15-19 record over four seasons, including a 3-5 mark last fall. The Red Riots have finished the regular season 3-5 each of the last three years and have not qualified for the Western Maine Class A playoffs since 2002. Stinson guided Greely to a 5-4 record in Western B last year.
At Morse High in Bath, Jason Libby has been named the Shipbuilders’ head football coach. He replaces Greg Nadeau, who stepped down after nine seasons.
Libby, a graduate of Skowhegan Area High and the University of Maine-Farmington, is an elementary school teacher in Bath who has been coaching football at the middle-school level, according to Morse athletic director Brian Hatch.
“He’s always loved football,” said Hatch of Libby, “and he’s worked his way up through the ranks.”
Morse finished 4-5 last fall and failed to make the Pine Tree Conference Class B playoffs.
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