CASTINE, Maine — Former football standouts Peter Scontras and Claude Leclair are among five people who will be inducted into the 2016 class of Maine Maritime Academy’s William J. Mottola Athletics Hall of Fame.
Scontras (Class of 1950) and Leclair (1986) will be joined by three-sport performer Stacey (Ryan) Sangillo (2002) and basketball player Corey Streams (2002).
Running back Scontras scored the first-ever touchdown on Ritchie Field on a 65-yard run. He also handled kicking duties and threw a few passes. Later in life, Scontras was ranked among the top five runners over age 65 in New England.
Leclair earned Division III All-America, All-New England and All-New England Football Conference accolades. The running back still ranks 10th in career rushing yards (2,414) and rushing touchdowns (21) at MMA and is seventh all time with 92.8 rushing yards per game and 3,237 all-purpose yards.
Sangillo is the Mariners’ No. 5 career basketball scorer with 1,108 points and averaged 12.3 points per game, which ranks sixth. In softball, she ranks second in career on-base percentage (.451), fifth with a .357 batting average, and third in both runs scored (83) and triples (6).
Millinocket native Streams is MMA’s all-time leader in field goals attempted and ranks second in assists (327) and steals (181). His 1,322 points are fourth and he is fifth in field goals made (462) and 3-pointers made (517).
The four inductees will be honored during this year’s Homecoming festivities at the William J. Mottola Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet on Friday, Sept. 23, and again at halftime of MMA’s football game against Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 24.
Duhamel joins UMF staff
FARMINGTON, Maine — Paris Duhamel has joined the University of Maine-Farmington as an assistant cross-country and track and field coach.
She spent the past two seasons in Colorado and last year was a tumbling coach at Peak Athletics, where she taught trampoline and tumbling recreation classes for all levels. She also worked in the Adams State University athletic department.
At the University of Oregon she competed on the 2013 National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association National Championship team. Duhamel later attended Adams State on a track and field athletic scholarship, where she set personal records in the pole vault, 100-meter sprint and 400-meter race.
Duhamel is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in art and design at Adams State University.
Colby resurfaces tennis courts
WATERVILLE, Maine — Colby College is performing renovations on its 10 tennis courts.
The work, which is expected to be completed by Sept. 14, includes cleaning, crack filling, resurfacing, painting and new windscreens.
The tennis courts project is the start of a more extensive overhaul at Colby, which plans to move competition fields as part of the construction of a new athletic complex.
Leighton named Colby coach
WATERVILLE, Maine — John Leighton, an assistant coach for the Colby College volleyball team for two seasons, returns to the program as an assistant for the 2016 season.
He previously was an assistant coach at College of Saint Rose from 2005 to July 2013.