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2025 Tourney Time # 1 Regular Season Highlights & Tourney News
Watch this first installment of Charlie Crockett’s Tourney Time News including highlights from Regular Season games and information on all our midcoast team’ s progress in the Basketball Tournaments. This episode includes information about the 1/4 Finals, including times, places, dates, and analysis, as well as regular season highlights from the Camden Hills girls game vs Mt. Blue on 12/10/24 and the Camden Hills boys game vs Oceanside on 12/13/24. Check in here for frequent updates on our midcoast team’s progress and to relive exciting highlights from the regular season games.
Replay: Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Medomak Valley 2/7/2025
Watch this replay of the Camden Hills boys basketball game vs Medomak Valley . This game was played at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro on 12/7/2025. This is the 100th game played between Medomak Valley and Camden Hills ( and Camden-Rockport). The Medomak Valley senior athletes will be recognized before each game. The broadcast crew is Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
Camden Hills Girls vs MedomAK. 2/7/25
Camden Hills Boys & Girls Basketball Doubleheader vs. Medomak Valley 2/7/2025 5:30 PM
Watch this live stream of the Camden Hills boys and girls doubleheader basketball game vs Medomak Valley . This game will be played at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro on 12/7/2025. First game is at 5:30 PM. The Medomak Valley senior athletes will be recognized tonight before each game. The broadcast crew is Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
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Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Cony 1/31/2025 7 PM
Watch this live stream of the Camden Hills boys basketball game vs Cony . This game will be played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on 1/31/2025. Game time 7:00 PM, following the freshmen and JV games and the Senior Recognition at the final regular season home game. The broadcast crew is Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
Camden Hills Girls Basketball vs Cony 1/30/2025 6:30 PM
Watch this live stream of the Camden Hills Girls basketball game vs Cony . This game will be played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on 1/30/2025. Game time 6:30 PM. The broadcast crew is Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
Class A Girls Basketball : Camden Hills vs. Hampden Academy 1/28/2025
Watch this replay of the Camden Hills Girls basketball game vs Hampden Academy . This game was played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on 1/28/2025. The broadcast crew is Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
Camden Hills Girls Basketball vs. Messalonskee 1/24/2025 5 PM
Watch this girls basketball game between the Windjammers of Camden Hills and the Eagles of Messalonskee. This game will be played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, game time 5 PM. The MCTV crew includes Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett sports videographer.
Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Lawrence 1/22/2025
Watch this boys basketball game between the Windjammers of Camden Hills and the Bulldogs of Lawrence. This game will be played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, game time 7 PM. The MCTV crew includes Charlie Crockett , play-by-play, Dave Ridley, stats, and Penny Crockett sports videographer.
Camden Snow Bowl Receives Community Spirit Award from the Maine Ski and Snowboard Museum
Watch this video of the presentation from the Maine Ski & Snowboard Museum of the Community Spirit Award to the Camden Snow Bowl on December 7, 2024. The presentation was made by Glenn Parkinson, President of the Museum, and was received by master of ceremonies Dave Ridley, a Camden resident , Snow Bowl Ski Instructor, and Vice President of the Museum. Then Snow Bowl has remained a town-owned ski area since its inception in 1936– one of the few left in the state. In keeping with the museum’s mission to “celebrate, preserve, and share the history and heritage of Maine skiing and snowboarding,” Camden residents were recognized for their ongoing stewardship of this important piece of local history.
1974 Camden-Rockport HS Basketball State Championship 50th Anniversary Celebration
Watch this video of interviews with the team members , coach, and cheerleaders who were part of the 1974 Camden-Rockport Boys Basketball first ever State Championship for the Windjammers. At the 2024 Alumni game at Camden Hills Regional High School , the State Championship teams from 1974 and 1999 were recognized and celebrated on the 50 th and 25 th respective anniversaries of their State Titles. These interviews with the 1974 team include Coach Gary Heald, Charlie Wootton, Alan Elliott, Billy Connell, Stuart Young, Tom Christie, Lindsay Dean, and cheerleaders Terry Spearin Larsen and Shirley Clement Shannon. Due to time constraints, we were not able to interview other members of the 1974 and of the 1999 team.
Camden Hills Girls & Boys Double Header vs Brewer 1/17/2025 5 PM
Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Nokomis 1/14/2025
Replay Camden Hills Girls Basketball vs Oceanside Girls 1/11/25
Watch this replay of the girls basketball game between the Windjammers of Camden Hills and the Mariners of Oceanside. This game was played at Camden Hills regional High School in Rockport on January 11, 2025. The MCTV crew was Charlie Crockett, play-by- play announcer, Dave Ridley, stats and Penny Crockett, sports videographer.
Replay Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Oceanside boys 1/11/2025
Replay : Camden Hills Girls vs Skowhegan 1/9/2025
Camden Hills Girls Basketball vs Gardiner 1/7/2025 6:30 PM
Camden Hills Boys & Girls Basketball vs Medomak Valley 1/4/2025 5 PM
Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs Messalonskee 12/30/2024. 6 PM
Camden Hills Girls & Boys Basketball vs Cony 12/28/2024. 3:30 PM
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Peter Ralston: Images From Maine #212
Dear Friends, Today, four quiet images from our harbor. Taken together, they remind me that it’s cold and beautiful out there, but it’s the second one that whispers most powerfully to me; it speaks of the warmth and light we need…that which we find within. Alone,...
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Dutch Disease refers to the negative economic consequences that can occur when a country experiences a resource boom. happens when a society has lots of free money being thrown around. It happened when the Netherlands got lots of income from North Sea wells. And it's...
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Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs. Hampden Academy 12/19/2024. 7 PM game time
Replay : Boys Class A Basketball : Camden Hills vs Skowhegan 12/17/24
Watch this replay of the Camden Hills boys basketball game vs Skowhegan. This game was played at Camden Hills Regional High School on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. The broadcast crew was Charlie Crockett, play-by-play, Dave Ridley , ststistician, and Penny Crockett, sports vidoegrapher.
Peter Ralston Images From Maine #211
Dear Friends, Well, it’s safe to say that winter is upon us. Although we’ve had very little snow to speak of so far, we had winds gusting over 60mph and lots of rain overnight on Wednesday. My beloved 37’ live-aboard tripod, RAVEN, is out of the water now so, like...
Camden Hills Boys Basketball vs. Oceanside 12/13/2024
Watch this replay , with improved sound volume, of the CH Windjammers boys basketball game vs the Mariners of Oceanside. This game was played at Oceanside High School in Rockland on 12/13/2024. The broadcast crew is play by play announcer Charlie Crockett, statistician Dave Ridley, and sports videographer Penny Crockett.