Sports fans had a chance to listen to a rarity Monday – a high school softball-baseball, day-night doubleheader – on WZON in Bangor.

I had a chance to catch the first game, the Brewer at Bangor softball game. Rich Kimball and Jim Walsh worked the Brewer-Bangor baseball game that night.

Brent Stephens started out doing play-by-play during Monday afternoon’s softball game and Dale Duff did color commentary. The two switched roles later in the game.

Aside from a few miscues early on – Duff started out introducing Bangor’s lineup as Brewer’s – the Stephens-Duff duo did a credible job behind the mike.

Stephens had a relaxed, comfortable broadcast style and Duff cut in from time to time to provide interesting tidbits of information or player statistics without interrupting Stephens’ flow.

The combo worked just as well when the two announcers reversed roles later.

Stephens and Duff both misidentified a couple of players early, but Stephens was quick to rectify the errors each time.

Neither seemed to get into the flow of the game early on as they lost track of the count late in the first inning and forgot to keep track of whether runs were earned or unearned later on.

But both sounded more polished as the game wore on.

Unfortunately, what has become a common practice with the local sports media when interviewing coaches and players was used by both Duff and Stephens.

They did their entire postgame interview with Bangor coach Lisa Richards without asking her a single question. Both made statements that Richards reacted to.

An example from a portion of the exchange between Duff and Richards.

Duff: “…That was just a nice game.”

Richards: “It was excellent. Both teams came ready to play.”

Duff: “And Becca Kinney’s pitching performance today, not spectacular but solid.”

Richards: “Well she’s the one I want on the mound in that tight situation at the end…”

Duff: “And the clutch hit from Mandy Ingalls.”

Richards: “That’s right. She was due….”

Here are some other memorable game broadcast outtakes:

What game is this anyway?: “The sun came back out and this is gonna be a beautiful day for baseball,” said Duff, just before the start of the softball game.

From the totally irrelevant file: “Look, I just drew blood. The first mosquito bite of 1994 for me. Look at that, right on the arm,” Duff said. Oh well, at least he didn’t give a play-by-play account of the bite.

This year’s Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife moose permit drawing at the Augusta Armory will be broadcast live by nine Maine radio stations.

The drawing starts at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.The coverage begins at 5 p.m. on these stations:

WABI (910 AM) Bangor; WABK (1280 AM) Gardiner; WCXU (97.7 FM) Caribou; WCXX (102.3 FM) Madawaska; WDME (103.1 FM) Dover-Foxcroft; WKTJ (99.3 FM) Farmington; WRKD (1450 AM) Rockland; WTVL (1490 AM) Waterville; and WTOX (1450 AM) Lincoln.

From the awards file, two local stations came away with awards from the Maine Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

WVII-TV (Channel 7) in Bangor won top honors in the Best Same-day Sportscast category. Before picking the winner, the AP chooses a date at random during the year and then notifies each station at the conclusion of that day to submit the day’s sportscasts.

WVII sportscasters Eric Frede and Dan Hanigan also received second-place awards in the Outstanding Videography category for their camera work.

For the second straight year, Ellsworth radio station WDEA (1370 AM) also was honored. This is the eighth time in two years WDEA has won honors for local sports coverage.

WDEA’s sports broadcast team of Dan White and Dana Ericson won first place in the Sports Special category for a profile done of former Ellsworth High School basketball star Amy Sisson.

White’s and Ericson’s coverage of an Ellsworth-Mount Desert Island boys basketball game also placed first in the Play-by-Play category.

SportsChannel New England received a New England Emmy Award for sports play-by-play coverage at the 17th annual awards ceremony in Boston last week. The award was for SportsChannel’s coverage of the Hartford Whalers, a team the network has covered since for 13 years.