DIXFIELD — Cody St. Germain’s game nicely mirrors the 2011-12 Maine winter.

Call him the quiet storm.

At 6-foot-4 and likely south of 200 pounds, St. Germain couldn’t command the same attention as his ceiling-scraping, big-footed Dirigo High School predecessor, Tom Knight of Notre Dame, simply by walking down the street.

In a high school basketball world that exists primarily beneath the rim and where the 3-point shot is now king, St. Germain’s array of layups, putbacks and baseline jumpers don’t evoke a chorus of oohs and aahs.

He doesn’t accentuate big shots with a howl, like lifelong teammate Josh Turbide, or cover all 84 feet of hardwood with the explosive quickness and abandon of T.J. Frost.

St. Germain simply is — by the decree of Mountain Valley Conference coaches and anyone else who watched him do his thing every night — the best player in Western Class C boys’ basketball.

“People say that to me all the time, about (my game) being quiet,” St. Germain said. “I never think about how many points I have. I just sort of flow with it.”

It flows with a consistency rarely seen at this level.

Whether teams employ the time-honored man-to-man or all manner of zone defense against the Cougars, St. Germain will inflict his damage.

You’re almost safe marking him down for 20 points and nine rebounds before Saturday night’s Class C championship against Lee Academy (8:45 p.m. Augusta Civic Center) tips off. He averaged those identical numbers during both the MVC campaign and the regional tournament.

St. Germain was named winner of the C. Harry Edwards Award as the most valuable player and sportsman of the Western C tourney for the second straight February. He’s only the seventh player to take home the trophy in back-to-back years, following in the footsteps of pro soccer player Roger Levesque of Falmouth, Winthrop and Villanova standout T.J. Caouette and 1980s Dirigo great Doug Clark.

“He hasn’t had many bad games, if any,” said Dirigo coach Travis Magnusson, who faced the challenge of coaching against St. Germain at Livermore Falls the previous two years before taking charge of the Cougars. “He’s certainly a big part of what we’ve been able to do. He’s a very good leader. I’m sure he was last year also.”

The role comes so naturally to St. Germain that it’s easy to assume he’s been the man in the middle since he was a young boy.

Not entirely true. In fifth grade, St. Germain was essentially power forward on his travel team. The center? Turbide, by virtue of an early growth spurt.

“Our parents called us the Twin Towers. Then I kept growing and he hasn’t grown in seven years,” St. Germain said.

Fate and physiology worked things out nicely for the Cougars.

“Josh is probably the best 3-point shooter in the conference,” St. Germain said. “Ben (Holmes) can step back and hit a few. T.J. and Caleb (Turner) I think are the two best passers in the league. That makes us hard to defend.”

All of which opens it up for — you guessed it — St. Germain.

It is not uncommon after opposing coaches make their halftime adjustments against the balanced, high-octane Cougars to see Dirigo pound the ball inside to its center for three, four, even five consecutive uncontested baskets.

St. Germain was a freshman, starting for the junior varsity, when Dirigo similarly fed the 6-9 Knight and feasted on the first of what is now four consecutive regional titles.

“Tom was definitely the guy I looked up to,” St. Germain said. “I don’t have that size or that style of game, but he’s kind of who I tried to follow.”

The one order of business neither Knight nor St. Germain has been able to complete is a state title. Clark’s clubs won the two previous Class C boys’ crowns for Dirigo in 1982 and ’83.

Last year’s 65-55 loss to Lee in Bangor stung St. Germain the most. It was his first championship game as a focal point of the team after coming off the bench in a loss to Washington Academy his sophomore season.

“That was awful. The picture in the paper where everyone’s heads are down, I’ve looked at that picture so many times just to remember what it felt like,” he said. “I’ve studied the game film, trying to see what I did wrong and what I can learn from it.”

St. Germain will take what he has learned into the college game next season. He’s leaning heavily toward Husson University.

Dirigo’s model of consistency knows he doesn’t need 1,000 career points or a Division I scholarship to leave his mark at a school that measures its greatness in gold.

‘Coach told us it would feel different senior year, and it does,” St. Germain said. “It’s our last ride.”

A smooth one, at that. But quiet? Probably not when Saturday night rolls around.

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