Karl Henrikson will be nominated for the Rockland boys varsity basketball coaching position at a June school district meeting.

Rockland athletic director Brian Plourde acknowledged that Henrikson is the choice.

“Karl has been with us for a year. He took the teaching position vacated by Buddy Wood,” Plourde said.

The position became open when Wood resigned from the job last month.

Henrikson has coached at the University of Maine-Presque Isle, the Maine Central Institute Postgrad team in Pittsfield, at Edward Little High School in Auburn, and at Mount Desert Island High School.

He resigned from the MCI job last September to return to his midcoast roots.

Henrikson played high school basketball at Georges Valley in Thomaston and went on to play college basketball at the University of Southern Maine.

Plourde once served as an assistant coach to Henrikson at UMPI.

“I’ve known him for 20 years. Wherever he’s been his teams have won. He would be a real addition to our program,” Plourde said.

Plourde said he expects the school board to accept Henrikson’s nomination.

“I don’t anticipate any problems,” Plourde said.

Parker applies at Hampden

Nokomis athletic director Carl Parker said Monday that he has applied for the boys basketball coaching position at Hampden Academy.

Parker has served as boys basketball coach at a number of high schools including Bangor, Foxcroft Academy, and Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, and he was an assistant coach of the MCI Postgrad hoop team.

He has also coached AAU basketball teams.

“I’m still young, enthusiastic. I feel I have something to offer,” the 1969 graduate of Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln said.

Parker said that while he is happy at Nokomis, there has been “talk” of reducing the athletic director’s job at the school to a part-time position due to current budget considerations.

The Hampden Academy coaching position opened up when Andy Frace resigned recently after seven years on the job. Frace also resigned as the boys varsity soccer coach, a position he had held for eight years.

Ponies on the run

Foxcroft Academy’s E.J. Imbert will attend Central Connecticut State University in New Britain where he plans to study pre-med and play Division I football.

The 6-foot-6, 215-pound Imbert played defensive back and end on the Ponies football team that reached the 2002 Class C state championship game.

Imbert is also a member of the FA track team and has qualified for the state championship in the discus and 400-meter run.

Teammate Danny White has changed his mind and will attend Maine Maritime Academy in Castine to play basketball.

The 5-10 McDonald’s Senior All-Star had been leaning toward Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., but says a trip to Castine changed his mind.

“Coach [Chris] Murphy has been there all along, talking to me. It’s just a good fit for me,” White said.

Meanwhile, FA junior Brandon Hall recently high jumped his height at a track meet in Dover-Foxcroft. Hall stands 6-7. The Class C state record was set in 1981 and is 6-71/2.

At the same meet, Hall won the 100-meter dash in a time of 11.79, long jumped 19-6 and triple jumped 40-0. All of Hall’s times and distances at the meet bettered the Maine Principals’ Association qualifying requirements for the state championships.

Mainers at junior duals

Jeremiah Barkac and Keith Thompson of Dexter and Justin Bowen of Brewer represented the Brewer Wrestling Club at the East Coast Junior Duals, a freestyle and Greco-Roman team event held in White Marsh, Md., last weekend.

The Maine team finished ninth out of 14 teams at the meet.

The three qualified for the event at a state tournament held recently in Marshwood at Eliot.

Barkac and Bowen will compete at the Northeast Regionals in Bloomsburg, Pa., Saturday and Sunday.

Don Perryman can be reached at 990-8045, 1-800-310-8600 or dperryman@bangordailynews.net