Yarmouth Alumni Association - Yarmouth, Maine

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Robert Hack ’81

Robert Hack passed away on July 11, 2016 while camping on Lanes Island. He is survived by his father Robert, and his sister Christine ’84.

November 5th Equals State Championships

Yarmouth ClippersSaturday, November 5th saw the Yarmouth Clippers bring home two soccer championships and two individual championships in cross country in Class B competition.

Let’s start with soccer. Both the Girls and the Boys played at Hampden Academy, the Girls against Waterville, the Boys against Winslow. Perhaps due to the 9:30 am start time, the Girls got off to a slow start, and trailed 1-0 at the half despite outshooting the Panthers. But the Clippers completely dominated the second half, scoring three goals in the space of ten minutes, two by Katie Clemmer ’17 and one by Sara D’Appolonia ’18, to seal a 3-1 victory. This is the first state championship for the Girls since 2003, a real thrill for senior starters Ella Antolini, Gretchen Barbara, Katie Clemmer, Abby Condon, and Corey Langenbach, as well as first year coach Josh Thornton.

The Boys game followed at 12:30 pm. Unlike the Girls, the Boys scored two goals halfway through the first half, and added a third after a Winslow goal to lead 3-1 at the half. The Clippers kept up the pressure in the second half, tallying two more goals to complete a 5-2 victory, the third consecutive Class B championship for the Clippers. YHS has won eleven State Championships, ten in Class B and one in Class C. Seniors Henry Coolidge, Matt Dostie, Gibson Hartnett, Chris Romano, and Tucker Whitney anchored the team for Coach Mike Hagerty, but a strong group of underclassmen puts the Boys in good shape for next year and beyond.

Both cross country team competed for the Class B championship. The Girls, the defending champions, gave Greely a tough fight, but the Rangers prevailed, beating the Clippers by eleven points. However, Abby Hamilton ’17 won the race with a time of 18:05:31 for the 5K distance, the best time in any class for the day. The Boys placed fifth of seventeen schools. Luke Laverdiere ’18 won the boys race in a time of 15:49: 59.

Sherry Lapointe, Occupational Therapist

Sherry Lapointe, 56, passed away on September 30th, 2016 at her home in Pownal after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. In her twenty-five years in the Yarmouth schools, Sherry had a profound effect on many students with various disabilities. A number of those students joined hosts of family, friends, colleagues at her memorial service, held in the Yarmouth Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 15th.

Among her survivors are her sons Cody ’07 and Logan ’09. A full obituary can be found in the Portland Press Herald.

Lax Teams Vie for State Championships

Both the boys and girls lacrosse teams will play for their respective State Championships on Saturday, June 18th at Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland.

At 12:30 pm the girls will face an undefeated Kennebunk team who beat them by a score of 9-5 three weeks ago. The team finished the regular season with a record of 9-3. Seeded #3, they sailed through three rounds of the Class B North championships with victories over Freeport, St. Dom’s, and Morse.

At 3:30 pm the boys will play Falmouth, who defeated YHS 12-7 early in the season. They finished the regular season with a record of 7-5. Seeded #3 for the play-offs, they defeated NYA, Gardiner, and Marancook decisively to advance to the State game.

The other spring sports teams enjoyed considerable success as well. Here are the records:

Baseball Regular season record:10-5-1. Entering the play-off as the #6 seed, they defeated Fryeburg in the Prelims, but lost to #3 Greely in the Quarters.

Softball Regular season record: 12-4. As the #2 seed in Class B South, the girls defeated Leavitt in the Quarterfinals, then lost to Greely in the Semifinals.

Boys Tennis Regular season record: 5-7. Lost to Cape Elizabeth in the Class B Quarterfinals.

Girls Tennis Regular season record: 8-4. Beat Oak HIll in Class B South Quarterfinals, lost to Cape Elizabeth in Semifinals.

Boys Track The team placed 5th in the Western Maine Conference Division II meet, and 9th of twenty-six teams in the State Class B meet. In the State meet Luke Laverdiere ’18 won both the 800m and the 1600m, and Taj Garvery ’18 won the 400m. Ian Murrin ’16 was a consistent scorer throughout the season in the discus and shot put.

Girls Track The girls results mirrored the boys: 5th in WMC meet, 9th of twenty-six teams in the States. In the State meet, Emma Egan ’16 completed her record-setting track career by winning the High Jump (5’6″) and placing third in the 55m. Abby Hamilton ’17 won the 3,200m and Anneka Murrin ’18 won the 1,600m.

Sailing The Club won the State regatta in Castine.

Hebert Award and Other News

Hebert Award At an all-school assembly on January 21st, Nico Whitlock ’16 was awarded the Hector Hebert Award. Long time colleague and fellow history teacher Alan Hall – dubbed the “venerable” by Principal Eric Klein – made the presentation. Before describing Mr. Hebert’s characteristics and teaching style, Mr. Hall gave the students a snapshot of Yarmouth in the early 1970s: no stop lights, school called off by horn blasts from a general store on Main Street, the junior high school housed in the 100 Wing, etc.

Mr. Hebert would be delighted in this year’s recipient. Nico is a top student, a soccer player, President of the Outing Club, a spokesperson for the student club B.O.L.D. (Building Our Lives Drug & Alcohol Free), a bass player in a bluegrass band, and a music teacher at the Boys and Girls Club. Congratulations Nico.

Poetry Outloud

Amanda Dettman ’16 won the 2016 Poetry Outloud competition, held before the student body on January 7th. Each of the eight contestants – two from each class – recited two poems from memory, and were judged by four local poets. Amanda had competed in all four of her years at YHS, and will now advance to the regional competition.

All students in the school are required to memorize and recite a poem in their English class. Other contestants were: Natalie Bourassa ’19, Hannah Grant ’19, Sage Watterson ’18, Nick Prato ’18, Ella Werner ’17, Isabelle Murray ’17, and Lucy Alexander ’16.

Students in the News

Jordan O’Brien ’17 has a passion for race cars. He recently returned from a trip to North Carolina where he competed at several NASCAR tracks, winning one race and placing in another.

Franz-Peter Jerosch ’19 and his partner, Julia Curran of Westbrook, placed second in the juvenile pairs event at the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships held in St. Paul, MN on January 16th.

Jack Venden ’16 and Tyler Waaler ’16 have received nominations by the Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, for admission to the United States Naval Academy.

Sports Updates

Here are the records of the teams as they approach the end of the regular season:

Boys Basketball 12-3
Girls Basketball 7-8
Boys Hockey 11-2
Girls Hockey 6-10

Records of the swimming, track, nordic skiing, and alpine skiing are not regularly reported in the press, and hard to find. More on those teams later.