Eagles Highlights

Eagles Highlights Athleic Director Doran Stout “I’m at an age where you wonder Reires ater 34 Years if it’s the right choice and how the kids are going to react to someone oran was a coach and English my age,” he said. “But we had 13 Dteacher at Erskine for 14 years players and, for most of them, before becoming the full-time athletic baseball is their irst sport.” director. He coached varsity baseball, leading the Eagles to the Class C Jonassen and his players had state inal in his irst year, 1984, and some fun with the age diference coached varsity and JV basketball for and sharing their passion for the nine years. game they love all season. It carried over onto the diamond, as they He started Erskine’s cross country inished 14-4 and reached the Class program in the mid-1980s and the B North semiinals. track and ield program in 1988. Sports oferings grew from soccer in the For the Eagles’ accomplishments, fall to include ield hockey and cross Doran Stout let with new aciviies administrator Lars Jonassen is the 2016 Kennebec Chuck Karter country. Wrestling, swimming and Journal Baseball Coach of the Year. indoor track joined basketball in the plenty of experience. We are lucky to Despite losing star shortstop winter. Tennis, track and ield and have Chris’s program in place. He has Ryan Rodrigue to graduation, the most recently lacrosse were added to said that although many other schools Eagles went baseball and softball in the spring. in Maine have athletic trainers, the into the 2016 As the school grew to over 700 MaineGeneral program is a one-of-a- season with a students and then setled back to kind operation because of the extent great deal of approximately 580, the school met of the athletes it covers and the liaison optimism. Led challenging Class A action. He with the medical staf. by seniors Caleb Barden, Cody atributes the sports program success Lars Jonassen KJ 2016 Coach of at Erskine to coaches who make Beaudoin, Zack playing fun, which creates students the Year Glidden, Luke Peabody and enthusiastic about sports and who ondly known as “Mr. J”, want to come back. Jake Suga, they Lars Jonassen FLars Jonassen received the had most of the Doran will continue to oversee well-deserved recognition as Coach of nucleus back that showed consistent the Northern and Southern the Year by the Kennebec Journal. improvement and reached the playofs Maine state basketball tourna- Staf Writer Randy Whitehouse in 2015. ments at the Augusta Civic Center, wrote the July 18 article titled, a post he’s held since 2013. Adding to the air of possibilities was “Jonassen didn’t miss a beat in his that many of the players were part of Erskine Athleic return to the dugout”: the Eagles’ unexpected run to the state Trainer Awarded When Erskine baseball soccer championship game. rskine’s athletic coach Mark Bailey stepped “We had a lot of things fall into Etrainer Chris down after a promising 2015 place, but I think the atitude from day Sementelli was season to spend more time one was ‘Hey, this could be special,’” awarded the Larry with his family, the school Jonassen said. ... turned to the man who had LaBrie Award for ...Erskine’s season ended with a 3-1 outstanding contribu- preceded him in the dugout, Lars Jonassen, in hopes he loss to top seed and eventual state tions to the Maine champion Old Town in the semiinals. Principals Association would continue the program’s growth. It marked the end of the high school Interscholastic careers of ive key contributors. But Division at a The typically with their entire inield and three of ceremony on April 28. Athleic trainer Chris Sementelli self-deprecating 64-year-old, their top four pitchers back, the Eagles Chris has been who had coached the varsity could be even beter next year. for nine years in his previous stint and athletic trainer at Erskine through the Jonassen downplays his role in the MaineGeneral Sports Medicine depart- had stayed close to the program as JV coach in the irst year of his two-year steps they took in 2016, delecting ment where he is manager of sports credit to assistants Scot Corey, Pete services since 1999 and comes with varsity hiatus, wasn’t sure he was the right it. Howard and Jon Jorgensen. But he has no regrets about geting back in the game. 16 Erskine Connector Fall 2016–17.

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