Edward Little’s Grace Fontaine drives to the basket past Oxford Hills’ Maighread Laliberte during the Class AA North girls’ basketball finals at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Friday. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) Edward Little’s Piper Norcross waves the net after the Auburn players won the Class AA North girls’ basketball finals at the Cross […]
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Boothbay escapes Madison in C South semifinal
AUGUSTA — Loosely translated from Spanish, ‘ganas’ refers to the desire to move forward. Appropriately, a sign with that very word adorns a bulletin board in the Boothbay girls basketball team’s locker room, and they took its inspiration to heart Thursday afternoon. Racked by team-wide illness this week and without their best player for most […]
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Girls' basketball: Lake Region knocks off Gray-NG in B South semis
Shauna Hancock, left, and Brooke Harriman, second from left, of Lake Region High School celebrate with their teammates after defeating top-seeded Gray-New Gloucester 34-31 in Portland on Thursday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) PORTLAND — There will be a new champion of Class B South girls’ basketball. Two-time defending champion and top-seeded Gray-New Gloucester had its title […]
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Girls' basketball: Monmouth races past St. Dom's in C South quarterfinal
AUGUSTA — Monmouth Academy has an inside track to another regional final as the No. 2 seed in the Class C South girls’ basketball playoff bracket.
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Edward Little survives Lewiston in AA North girls’ basketball quarterfinals (WITH VIDEO)
AUBURN — Victoria Harris and Lewiston pushed Edward Little to the absolute limit, but the Red Eddies made one more play than their rivals down the stretch to win 49-48 in a Class AA North girls’ basketball quarterfinal Wednesday night. Hannah Chaput’s layup gave third-seeded Edward Little the one-point lead with 13 seconds left. “I […]
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C South girls' basketball prelim: No. 10 St. Dom's upends No. 7 Kents Hill
KENTS HILL — Pressure mounted in multiple ways when No. 10 St. Dominic Academy and No. 7 Kents Hill School met in a Class C South girls’ basketball preliminary round game Tuesday. The visiting Saints unleashed a full-court pressure that kept the Huskies to just 15 first-half points, but the hosts then put the pressure […]
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Gray-NG girls lock down top seed, topple Freeport
Gray-New Gloucester’s Brianna Jordan left, grabs a loose ball before Freeport’s Catriona Gould, right, can get to it during the first half of Thursday’s game. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) GRAY — Gray-New Gloucester locked down the top seed in Class B South, but Freeport made the Patriots earn it. The Patriots outlasted the Falcons in a […]
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Girls' basketball: Success a team thing for Gray-New Gloucester's Bri Jordan
Gray-New Gloucester’s Brianna Jordan muscles her way past Lake Region’s Chandler True, left, and Shauna Hancock, right, as she heads to the basket for a layup during the first half of a game last month. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Gray-New Gloucester girls’ basketball coach Mike Andreasen expects the world of junior guard Bri Jordan. “We ask […]
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Girls' basketball: Monmouth jumps on Mountain Valley early, cruises to 39-point win
RUMFORD — Monmouth cruised from the start Saturday and finished its regular season with a 63-24 girls’ basketball win over Mountain Valley. The Mustangs scored the first 12 points of the game and held a 20-4 lead by the end of the first quarter. “We knew they were good, but we weren’t expecting them to […]
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Girls' basketball: Gray-New Gloucester defense stymies Poland
Gray-New Gloucester’s Brianna Jordan, background, gets into position to block a layup attempt by Poland’s Nathalie Theriault during the first half of Friday night’s girls’ basketball game in Poland. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) POLAND — Gray-New Gloucester’s defense was stout in a showdown between the top two girls’ basketball teams in Class B South. The Patriots […]