Comment on Bangor football’s lopsided defeat highlights difficulties of playing sports during a pandemic

Dave Morris is not one to dwell on different degrees of defeat. For the veteran Bangor High School football and baseball coach, a loss is a result used in great part to identify areas of needed improvement in order to maximize his team’s potential. That philosophy has served the Rams’ baseball program well, with Bangor winning five Class A state championships under Morris’ watch between 2014 and 2018 and returning to the final last spring before falling to South Portland 3-2 on a last-inning run. Morris has applied a similar approach since becoming the school’s head football coach in 2018, guiding a program that had gone 3-23 over the previous three seasons to steady improvement from 1-8 in his first season to 4-6 in 2019 and a 3-0 start this fall after a signature 37-36 victory at Scarborough on Sept.