University of Maine sports radio broadcasts may be changing stations, but the radio play-by-play and color voices for football and ice hockey games will stay the same.

Rich Kimball and Bob Lucy will continue to broadcast UMaine football games, while Dan Hannigan and Larry Mahoney will do men’s ice hockey as the Black Bears move from WZON (620 AM) in Bangor to two new flagship stations.

Kimball and Lucy will be back in the booth for their 10th year.

Kimball has called key moments in the football program’s history, such as back-to-back Atlantic 10 titles in 2001 and 2002, playoff wins over McNeese State (2001) and Appalachian State (2002) and the 2004 win over SEC team Mississippi State. Lucy was a Black Bear linebacker and letter winner from 1980 to 1982 and played on the 1982 team that won the Yankee Conference title.

Hannigan enters his 13th season having called 478 men’s ice hockey games, including the 1999 national championship title game, six NCAA Frozen Fours and nine NCAA Tournament appearances. He has won numerous awards, including Maine Broadcaster of the Year and Hockey East Joe Concannon Media Award. Mahoney, a NEWS reporter for 34 years, enters his fifth season as the color analyst. He is a five-time Maine Sportswriter of the Year winner and a Hockey East Media Award winner.

The Black Bear Sports Network’s flagship station for football and men’s hockey will be WVOM (103.9 FM) in Bangor. The flagship station for men’s and women’s basketball and selected baseball and softball games will be WGUY (102.1 FM) in Bangor. Other stations in the Black Bear network include WLOB (1310 AM) in Portland, WCME (96.7 FM) in Augusta, WFAU (1280 AM) in Augusta, WRKD (1450 AM) in Rockland, and WIGY (97.5 FM) in Skowhegan.

UM releases field hockey slate

The University of Maine field hockey team has announced it will play six home games as part of its 2007 schedule.

The Black Bears of first-year coach Josette Babineau will take on four teams that were ranked in the final 2006 National Field Hockey Coaches Association national poll.

UMaine’s home schedule includes contests against Providence, Rhode Island and Northwestern.

“We are very happy to be hosting Northwestern in September,” Babineau said in a press release. “I think the schedule gives us a good balance of teams that will push us and prepare us for our October conference games.”

UMaine, which was the America East runner-up last year, also have road games against traditional national power Connecticut, along with Dartmouth, Syracuse and Boston College.

The Bears’ home opener is Sept. 8 at noon against Northwestern of the Big Ten.

UMaine returns 12 letterwinners and seven starters from last season’s team.

Haney new UMF volleyball coach

George Stevens Academy graduate Sarah Haney has been hired as the head women’s volleyball coach at the University of Maine-Farmington.

Haney takes the position after serving as a volunteer assistant for the Beavers the last two seasons.

She began her playing career at the University of Maine, where she earned a degree in physical education with a concentration in sports medicine.

Haney went on to serve as the head volleyball coach at Bucksport High School and also was an assistant in girls soccer and softball there. She also was a boys basketball assistant at GSA in Blue Hill.

Haney, the sales manager in the conference sales department at Sunday River Resort in Newry, lives in Peru.

Becton named All-American

Grace Becton of Islesboro has been named to the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association women’s All-American crew team.

Becton, a sophomore at Yale University, was one of 20 honorees. Her name will be added to the permanent ICSA Hall of Fame display in the Robert Crown Sailing Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.