Ryan Moore, a 17-year-old who died in a head-on crash in Lisbon Saturday, was remembered Sunday as someone who loved helping others, a hard-working student with a yearning to understand, and someone quick to smile.

“He wasn’t a gifted athlete,” said his basketball coach, Wesley Clark. “He had to work at it, but he did.”

Today, Clark will meet with Moore’s teammates to talk about how they’ll honor the forward with the unorthodox one-handed shot.

His number, 15, will likely be retired and his shirt hung in the gym of the Calvary Christian Academy in Turner. Much of the Auburn boy’s life was centered on the church and its school, say those who knew him best.

Clark, who also taught Moore, is among them. Besides being his teacher and coach, Clark also employed Moore.

He had him tossing bales of hay, weeding pumpkin patches and doing other odd jobs related to Clark’s Route 4 farm stand operations in Turner.

“He was a very hard worker,” Clark said of Moore.

He was also “the life of the party” but “spirited” in a good sort of way, Clark said. He would find a way to take something that could be drudgery and turn it into something more enjoyable.

“He was like that in class, too,” Clark said, finding a way to make even dry subjects be interesting.

State and Lisbon police continue to investigate the cause of the crash that claimed Moore’s life. He died after his Plymouth Sundance collided head-on with a Chevy Blazer. The driver of the Blazer, Adam Rinko, 26, and his passenger, Chris Moyse, 23, both of Lisbon, were treated for injuries suffered in the wreck and then discharged from St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston.

Police said Moore’s Sundance crossed the double lines on Route 196 near A.S.A.P. Appliance Repair just before the vehicles collided.

One of Moore’s relatives, who posted a blog on the Sun Journal Web site below a story reporting on the crash, said, “I have never met a person as sweet, loving, caring, strong or just plain interesting as Ryan.”

“He was very outgoing,” added Clark, well-known and well-liked.

“He’ll leave a hole,” Clark said.