The high school playoffs begin on Friday and the competitors in the 49th BDN Football Forecast are gearing up for the final two weeks of the prognostication season.
Ernie Clark has put himself in command among staff members, going 17-3 last week to push his season advantage to five games over Larry Mahoney, who dropped another game on the lead.
John Holyoke’s 18-2 card moved him up to third place while Joe McLaughlin now sits in fourth.
Guest Chris Popper, the sports director at WDEA radio (1370 AM) in Ellsworth, had a noteworthy 15-5 effort.
This week’s guest is Travis Gass, the deputy Universal Desk editor at the Bangor Daily News, where he has worked since 2001.
Gass is a lifelong Bangor resident who graduated from Bangor High School in 1997 and earned an English degree from the University of Maine in 2001. He maintains a connection with UMaine while hosting a weekly music show on WMEB (91.9 FM) radio. “West of the Fields, ” which airs Mondays from 7-10 p.m., has been on the air for 16 years.
Gass is an avid baseball fan who roots for the New York Yankees. He has seen games at seven major league ballparks on the East Coast.
Gass and his wife Judi (McCashland) will soon be moving to Brewer.