Tri-county basketball teams took the collar in this year's tournament. Here's some arithmetic I did engage myself in, just out of morbid curiosity: Schools within our company's distribution area went 11-24 in the hoop playoffs.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
BANGOR — The Washburn Beavers capped a perfect Class D girls basketball season with a 75-55 victory over Richmond at Bangor Auditorium on Saturday afternoon. It is the third straight state title for Washburn, and sophomore guard Mackenzie Worcester punctuated the Beavers’ offen...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Catherine McAuley steamrolled through the Western Class A tournament, then hit a speed bump in Eastern Maine champion Bangor. The Rams only momentarily slowed the Lions on their fast track to a third consecutive Class A state championship Saturday. McAuley pulled away with an 8-0 run to st...
BANGOR — Matt Turner scored 16 points to lead a balanced attack as Forest Hills of Jackman defeated Central Aroostook of Mars Hill, 55-48, at Bangor Auditorium on Saturday afternoon to win its first Class D boys basketball state championship. The Tigers ended Eastern Maine’s ni...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 6:45 pm
For what might be its swan song in Class B, Falmouth boys' basketball flaunted a team that could have been part of the championship conversation in Class A. The Yachtsmen exploded to a double-digit lead in the first five minutes Friday night and cruised to a 62-39 win over Medomak Valley, ...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Another state championship game heartbreak for Lake Region girls' basketball, this one inflicted almost exclusively by Presque Isle's Chandler Guerrette. Guerrette erupted for 21 of her 33 points in the second half Friday, leading Presque Isle back from an 11-point deficit to a 51-44 trium...
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Friday, March 1, 2013 at 9:15 pm
There's no question that basketball is a high priority to Tammy Anderson and her family. But when it came to returning to coach another year, it takes a backseat to other obligations. Anderson announced her resignation this past weekend as the Leavitt girls' basketball coach. She ha...
AUGUSTA — The Richmond Bobcats are very comfortable on the Augusta Civic Center floor. "We consider this our second home," senior forward Ciarra Lancaster said. "We've been here so much, we feel like it's natural for us." Success has come naturally for the Bobcats in the build...
AUGUSTA — Derick Ouellette scored all nine of Forest Hills' points in the fourth quarter to help the top-seeded Tigers hold off No. 3 Valley, 40-33, in the Western Class D boys' basketball final at the Augusta Civic Center. It is the Tigers' second consecutive regional title an...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Presque Isle Wildcats earned the right to defend their Class B girls' basketball title based on strong guard play against Nokomis on Saturday afternoon.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Cordelia Stewart was too big and too strong. Denae Johnson was too quick and decisive. And No. 2 Bangor was too much for the highest seed in Eastern Class A girls' basketball championship history, running away from No. 9 Cony, 57-43, Friday night at Augusta Civic Center. Stewart, a ...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Add another miracle finish to Maine boys' high school basketball championship lore. Hampden freshman Nick Gilpin flagged down a desperation pass from junior brother Zach and banked in a 35-foot prayer at the buzzer Friday night, boosting the undefeated, top-seeded Broncos to a 40-39 victor...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
AUGUSTA — Live in the moment. That's how Heidi Deery wants her team to play in Saturday's Western D championship game at the Augusta Civic Center. Her Rangeley Lakers have a rematch with the defending champions from Richmond. Though the teams split in the regular season, the B...
AUGUSTA — Dirigo's run is over. For now. The third-seeded Cougars let a nine-point first-half lead slip away Thursday night at Augusta Civic Center. No. 2 Waynflete gradually took control and wiggled away with a 58-51 Western Class C semifinal win. Gone is a 13-game regional t...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 10:00 pm
Heidi Deery hit three consecutive 3s and had 14 points in the third quarter, helping to lift the Lakers to a 59-43 victory over Forest Hills in the Western D semifinal round.
Edward Little's Nate Alexander is fouled by Lawrence's Aaron Lafrance early in their semifinal game Wednesday in Augusta. The Bulldogs topped the Red Eddies 49-41.
PORTLAND — Whether No. 11 Wells' 43-42 win over No. 3 Spruce Mountain was an upset depends on where one stands on an age-old debate regarding the relative merits of the Western Maine Conference and the Mountain Valley Conference. Wells rebounded from a 12-0 deficit to start Tue...
AUGUSTA — The first game of the tourney can often be a nerve-filled affair . Shaking the jitters and the rust quickly becomes a top priority. That wasn't the case for the Rangeley girls' basketball team Tuesday. The top-ranked Lakers looked ready and fine-tuned as they dispatched Isl...
AUGUSTA — Scott Wing might have worried about execution and nerves Tuesday, but he wasn't concerned about effort. If there's any certainty with his Monmouth Academy girls' basketball team, it has been the never-say-die attitude it has displayed all season. The Mustangs needed ...
AUGUSTA — Twenty-nine winters, and more often than not, Doug Lisherness' girls' basketball teams at Mt. Abram exceeded expectations and saved their best basketball for Augusta Civic Center and the Western Class C tournament. That career ended Tuesday, but not before the No. 7 Roadrun...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
AUGUSTA — It could have been better. That's how Brandon Salway saw his team's quarterfinal game Tuesday. His Waynflete girls' basketball team didn't shoot like they normally do, but it didn't seem to matter. The Flyers came out strong against a young Dirigo team and opened the...
AUGUSTA — Saint Dominic Academy coach Jon Berry said before the Western Class C girls' basketball tournament that he wanted his precocious team to get out on the spacious Augusta Civic Center court and "run wild." Oh, the Saints absolutely did that. For what felt like an eternity, if...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Greely's Ashley Storey, left and Caton Beaulieu tema up to deny Leavitt's Megan Dow's drive to the basket during Tuesday night's girls playoff basketball game at the Portland Expo.
AUGUSTA — Quin Leary of Edward Little and Kristen Anderson of Leavitt are in contention for the highest individual honor in Maine high school basketball. Leary and Anderson were announced Wednesday among the 10 finalists for the Mr. and Miss Maine Basketball awards, presented each ye...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Our second of three sessions, this one will feature live updates and conversation from Portland and Augusta, including the Spruce Mountain girls, Monmouth girls and Mt. Abram girls. Follow along below!
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 1:00 pm
PORTLAND — Scarborough’s fourth-ranked girls’ basketball team held No. 5 South Portland to just one basket and forced seven turnovers in the first quarter of Monday evening’s Western Class A quarterfinal round game at the Portland Exposition Building. Problem was, t...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 8:30 am
The day was so busy, we're breaking it up into three sessions! This first session is going to be open only for the Western Class D game between Rangeley and Islesboro. After joining in below, come back for the rest of our live events later on today!
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Welcome back to our third and final session of the day, featuring action from Portland (Falmouth vs. Leavitt girls) and Augusta (Dirigo vs. Waynflete girls, St. Dom's vs. Boothbay girls). Join us for some live, interactive banter!
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
AUGUSTA — Nearly six minutes into Monday's Western Class C quarterfinal, the Waynflete and Monmouth boys' basketball teams had generated a hockey score. That was the classic good news/bad news scenario for the Mustangs, who opened the game with a series of defensive stands they would...
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Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:35 pm
AUGUSTA — Travis Frost and Hunter Ross celebrated a state championship one year ago. Their Dirigo boys' basketball program has won the Western Class C title four Februarys running. So when the Cougars faced a six-point deficit midway through the fourth quarter Monday and all those ac...
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Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:30 pm
Day three at the annual high school basketball tourney is a light day for area teams, but an important one for Dirigo and Monmouth. Follow along below!
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Monday, February 18, 2013
BANGOR — Longtime Eastern Maine basketball official John Shoppe of Lamoine is in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after suffering a heart attack Friday night. “He’s at EMMC. He had a serious heart attack,” confir... 1
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 10:50 am
AUGUSTA — The ghosts started floating around the rafters and creeping up through the boards of the Augusta Civic Center hardwood about midway through the third quarter Saturday night. By the same juncture in the fourth period, with five minutes to go, Lewiston's 16-point lead over Ba...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
PORTLAND — It took a neutral site to reveal what had been plain on paper all along between MVC rivals Spruce Mountain and Mountain Valley. Spruce Mountain is young, enthusiastic, resilient and building a bright future. Mountain Valley is experienced, determined, hard-nosed and has li...
BANGOR, Maine — No. 3 Hodgdon was able to comfortably escape No. 6 Van Buren in an Eastern Maine Class D quarterfinal, as senior guard Mariah Wiley led the way in a 53-41 girls basketball win Saturday night at the Bangor Auditorium.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
BANGOR, Maine — Sophomore guard Molly Carroll came off the bench to spark Mount Desert Island of Bar Harbor to a 38-31 Eastern Maine Class B girls basketball quarterfinal victory over No. 13 Winslow on Saturday morning at the Bangor Auditorium.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
PORTLAND, Maine — When the York boys basketball team is clicking on all cylinders, it’s simply the best around, regardless of class. The Greely Rangers discovered that first-hand Saturday afternoon at the Portland Exposition Building as the Wildcats roared to life late in the f...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
I'm a big believer in equal time, and there's precious little of it in our all-or-nothing, buy-or-sell, believe-what-I-believe world. So it's impossible for me to let all these choked-up platitudes about the Bangor Auditorium enter scrapbooks and history books without at least, oh, I don't...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
AUGUSTA — Defending Western Class D boys' basketball champion and No. 1 seed Forest Hills made a strong statement Saturday, routing No. 9 Richmond, 74-41, in the quarterfinals at Augusta Civic Center. Forest Hills raced to leads of 26-7 after the first quarter and 51-17 at halftime, ...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
PORTLAND, Maine — Cape Elizabeth’s boys’ basketball team has relied on a mixture of experience and youth this winter, and it paid huge dividends Saturday morning and afternoon in a Western Maine Class B quarterfinal game against Wells at the Portland Exposition Building.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
AUGUSTA — If somebody had told Lew Jensen his only dinner option was a slice of pizza for every shot he hit during Saturday's pregame at Augusta Civic Center, the Edward Little sophomore might have been eating scraps of pepperoni off the floor. "I couldn't hit anythi...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 9:24 pm
The boys get their turn on the second day of the high school basketball tournaments as the West Class B boys take the floor in Portland, while the Eastern Clkass A boys hit the hardwood in Augusta. Interact live with our reporters on the scene bu joining below!
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 1:00 pm
AUGUSTA — Throw out the seeds. Throw out the record books. And cross No. 1 Edward Little out of your Eastern Class A girls' basketball bracket, thanks to a tournament-tested Cony club that looked like anything but a No. 9. The defending regional champion Rams took the lead with their...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 10:40 pm
AUBURN — Leadership on and off the basketball court can take many forms. There is the guy who scores 25 points per game and the girl who throws herself to the floor in pursuit of every loose ball. Not hard to pick them out. Let's not forget the player who raises his voice in e...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 9:00 pm
BANGOR — Camden Hills coach Marty Messer knew if his team was going to get past Oceanside, it would have to contain Mariners standout Kennadi Grover. The defense of Rachel Pease made the difference. The 6-foot-1 sophomore blanketed the Oceanside senior Friday night, limiting G...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 8:00 pm
It is a rare twist in the regional boys' basketball tournaments: No tri-county teams among the No. 1 seeds. That's not to say the locals won't make their fair share of noise. Edward Little is No. 2 in Eastern Class A, putting the Red Eddies in prime position to match up with juggern...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 4:32 pm
Players to watch Hampden — Zach Gilpin, Nick Gilpin, Matt Palmer, Tyler Norris; Edward Little — Quin Leary, Sean Ford, Nate Alexander, Lew Jensen; Lawrence — Nick Noiles, Spencer Carey, Xavier Lewis; Bangor — Alex Campbell, Sean Tocci, Connor Adams;...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Players to watch Falmouth — Charlie Fay (Sr. F), Grant Burfeind (Sr. G), Jack Simonds (So. F); York — Zach Leal (Sr. G), Aaron Todd (Sr. C), Hayden Webster (Sr. F); Cape Elizabeth — Henry Babcock (Sr. G/F), Chris Robicheaw (Sr. F); Mountain Valley —...
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Could this finally be their year? This year's girls' basketball tournaments has numerous teams that have experienced disappointment. They've come up short and watched their championship hopes slip away. Yet, here they are again, ready for another try. They're more seasoned, maybe mo...
Players to watch Sr. G Sarah Caron, Boothbay (10.8 ppg), Sr. F Alex Clarke (9.5 ppg, 7.1 rpg); Sr. G Samantha Bruce, Madison (15.6 ppg), Soph G Bronte Elias (11 ppg, 7.8 rpg); Sr. F Christina Colman, Old Orchard Beach (12.1 ppg), Soph F Abby Dubois (12.1 ppg); Sr. G ...
Players to watch Sr. C Tiana-Jo Carter, Lake Region (12 ppg, 19.8 rpg, 4 blocks), Sr. F Kelsey Winslow, Lake Region (12 ppg, 9.5 rpb); Sr. G Ruby Cribby, York (11.2 ppg), Sr. F Emily Campbell (10 ppg, 7.2 rpg); Soph. F Emily Keene, Spruce Mountain (9.8 ppg), Soph. G Kailee...
Players to watch Sr. G Ashlee Arnold, Edward Little (18 ppg), Jr. G Kory Norcross (10 ppg); Soph. F Cordelia Stewart, Bangor (14.9 ppg, 11 rpg), Sr. G Denae Johnson (12.8 ppg); Sr. F Mallory Nelson, Mt. Ararat (18.3 ppg, 7.2 rpg), Jr. G/F Caitlin LaFountain (14.5 ppg, 8 rp...
Players to watch Jr. G Tori Letarte, Rangeley (11 ppg), Soph. F Taylor Esty, Rangeley (11 ppg, 7 rpg), Fr. F Blayke Morin, Rangeley (11 ppg, 10 rpg); Sr. F Jamie Plummer, Richmond (21 ppg, 10 rpg), Sr. F Ciarra Lancaster, Richmond (9.3 ppg, 4 rpg); Sr. G Kara Fischer...
SOUTH PARIS — Top-seeded Hampden Academy will present No. 9 Mt. Ararat with numerous challenges when they meet in the Eastern A quarterfinals Saturday night. But it's unlikely the unbeaten favorites will be able to test the Eagles' fortitude like Ryan Godin and No. 8 Oxford Hills did on Wed...
GRAY — When the games get bigger, so can the nerves. Despite some impressive showings during the regular season, the Gray-New Gloucester girls' basketball team had a bigger challenge Tuesday night. They faced a hungry Wells team as well as some playoff game jitters. Both prove...
WISCASSET — Going into Wednesday’s Western Maine Class C boys basketball prelim with Wiscasset, St. Dom’s first-year coach Todd Flaherty was feeling good about his team’s chances to advance. The two Mountain Valley Conference foes had met in the third game of the re...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
AUBURN — Faith Grady emerged from the locker room and the Saint Dominic Academy post-game conversation carrying an icepack and flaunting a smile. Each of those adornments helps tell the story of why the remainder of the Western Class C girls' basketball tournament field should be war...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
MONMOUTH — They were so close a year ago. In its Western Class C preliminary game at Old Orchard Beach last winter, the Monmouth girls' basketball team nearly pulled off the win to earn a trip to the quarterfinals at the Augusta Civic Center. Instead, the loss sent them home and ende... 1
RICHMOND — Inside and outside. The Buckfield boys basketball team had it all working in the second half of Tuesday’s Western Maine Class D boys' high school preliminary basketball game against East-West Conference rival Richmond. All the Bucks needed were a couple big stops on ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
DIXFIELD — It took some time to get going Tuesday night. When the Dirigo girls' basketball team settled down and put things in motion, however, there was no question who controlled the Class C preliminary game. The trio of Jessica Conant, Kayla Gaudin and Kelsey Hutchins combined for...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
AUBURN — The last time the Edward Little girls' basketball team finished with the top seed, the current Red Eddies hadn't even been born. So this year's top ranking in Eastern A has been a long time coming for EL, especially after finishing second so often in recent years. "In...
Next weekend marks the beginning of the eighth Eastern Class A basketball tournament since it moved from the old, reliable Bangor Auditorium to the more centrally located Augusta Civic Center. Time flies when you're having fun, right? Speaking of merriment and cheer, it's worth noti...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm
