Bill Reynolds of Newport, who served as the boys junior varsity basketball coach at Nokomis of Newport last winter, has been nominated to become the next boys varsity basketball coach at Piscataquis Community High School of Guilford.

Reynolds will replace Jamie Russell, who resigned to take a similar post at Penobscot Valley of Howland.

Reynolds’ nomination will be considered by the SAD 4 board of directors at its next meeting scheduled for Nov. 11, according to PCHS principal Jim Chasse.

Reynolds is a graduate of Wiscasset High School and a 1996 graduate of the University of Maine, where he played basketball for the Black Bears.

Before taking the Nokomis post last season, Reynolds served as an assistant coach at Husson College from 2004 to 2006 and as girls JV coach at Hampden Academy from 2001 to 2004.

Reynolds also has been active as an AAU basketball coach with the Maine Icebreakers program.

Reynolds works as director of golf at Palmyra Golf Course and also as a dispatcher for LifeFlight of Maine.

Tripp takes Bucksport reins

Josh Tripp has been named the new boys varsity basketball coach at Bucksport.

He replaces Jason Bennett, who resigned for personal reasons after two seasons, according to a press release from Bucksport athletic administrator Jon Perry.

Tripp, a math teacher at the school, most recently served as Bucksport’s junior varsity coach, but he previously was the varsity coach between 2000 and 2004 at his alma mater, Searsport High School.

Tripp inherits a Bucksport team with five seniors back from last year’s 3-15 team.

The Golden Bucks will seek this winter to qualify for postseason play for the first time since reaching the Eastern Maine Class B championship game in 2002 and finishing with a 19-3 record.

Bucksport is 26-82 overall during the six seasons since then.

MABC to host Brown clinics

The Maine Association of Basketball Coaches will host seven free coaching clinics on Nov. 3 and Nov. 5, events designed to help teach basketball fundamentals to coaches around the state.

The events are designed for coaches of all levels, including elementary school, middle school, youth and recreation department coaches, AAU coaches as well as freshman and junior varsity coaches. All varsity coaches also are welcome to attend.

Hermon High School will host the first of the seven clinics on Monday. Other clinics are slated for Nov. 5 at the following high schools: Caribou, Ellsworth, Cony of Augusta, Edward Little of Auburn, South Portland and Thornton Academy of Saco.

Each clinic will run from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

A varsity boys coach and a varsity girls coach from the local area will facilitate each clinic, spending approximately 45 minutes on offensive principles and 45 minutes on man-to-man defensive concepts. Then two other local varsity coaches will join the presentation for such topics as practice planning, parental relationships and motivational techniques.

The clinics are named for Ron Brown, longtime former basketball coach and current columnist for the Bangor Daily News who, along with his wife Shelly, have established a trust fund for the MABC that enables the organization, among other things, to stage such clinics free of charge for coaches.

According to event organizers Bob Brown, boys basketball coach at Cheverus High School of Portland, and Tony Hamlin, boys basketball coach at Penquis Valley High School of Milo, it’s the MABC’s goal to make the Ron Brown Clinics and annual event with different sites and different coaches as speakers each year.

Scheduled clinicians at the various locations are:

Hermon: boys varsity coaches Hamlin and Jamie Russell of Penobscot Valley of Howland; girls varsity coaches Rachel Bousquet of Foxcroft Academy and Jody Grant of Dexter;

Caribou: boys varsity coaches Chris Casavant of Caribou, Tim Prescott of Presque Isle and retired Katahdin of Stacyville coach Bill McAvoy; girls varsity coach Jeff Hudson of Presque Isle;

Cony: boys varsity coaches Mike McGee of Lawrence of Fairfield and Tim Bonsant of Cony; girls basketball coach Brenda Beckwith of Messalonskee of Oakland, and former Cony girls coach and current athletic administrator Paul Vachon;

Edward Little: boys varsity coaches Mike Adams of Edward Little and Todd Hanson of Brunswick; girls varsity coaches Rita Maines of Brunswick and Kelly LaFountain of Mount Ararat of Topsham;

Ellsworth: boys varsity coaches Dwayne Carter of George Stevens of Blue Hill and Walter Crabtree of Sumner of East Sullivan; girls varsity coaches Bob Deetjen of Ellsworth and Don Allen of George Stevens;

South Portland: boys varsity coaches Brown and Jim Ray of Cape Elizabeth; girls varsity coaches Jan Veinot of Portland and Mike Giordano of South Portland;

Thornton Academy: boys varsity coaches Bob Davies of Thornton and Mike Zamarchi of Marshwood of Eliot; girls varsity coaches Mike Murphy of Deering of Portland and Kristy Parent of Sanford.

For more information on any of the clinics, contact Hamlin at tonyhamlin@hotmail.com or brown at bbrown61@maine.rr.com.

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