JAY — John McKenna led Spruce Mountain with 12 points — including two from beyond the arc — and Peter Theriault added nine more to help lead the Phoenix to a 42-35 win over visiting Winthrop in MVC boys’ basketball action Monday. The Phoenix recovered from a halftime deficit with a 14-5 run through the […]
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Girls’ basketball: Raiders tame Wolverines
WISCASSET — Methodical. Workmanlike. Choose any adjective from your thesaurus in this line of words to best describe the way the Oak Hill girls’ high school basketball team pulled away for a 68-44 Mountain Valley Conference win over Wiscasset on Monday night. In all, 12 of Tom Morong’s players saw action, with Sadie Goulet nailing […]
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Celts drop Knicks
BOSTON (AP) — Avery Bradley scored seven of his 13 points in the fourth quarter, hitting a 3-pointer with 2:38 to play to give the Celtics the lead for good, and Boston beat the New York Knicks 90-86 on Friday night. Jared Sullinger had 19 points and six rebounds, all but one basket in the […]
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Boys’ Basketball: Rams roll past Red Eddies
AUBURN — Three-pointers were contagious in the Bangor boys’ basketball camp Friday night. If you didn’t believe it after Alex Campbell and Xavier Lewis combined for three in the final 94 seconds of the first half at Edward Little, maybe the message was delivered when Campbell’s father sank a half-court shot at intermission and went […]
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Auburn Parks and Recreation Department Basketball League A League Lewiston Pawn Shop 68, GIF Masonry 44 Jon Cademan scored 20 points for Pawn Shop and Chuck Faletra had 14 for GIF Masonry. Crew 63, KC Auto 57 Rory Dupuis scored 21 points for Crew and Corey Therriault had 15 for KC. Chapter 11 Furniture 68, […]
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Celtics can’t sink Clippers, 96-88
BOSTON (AP) — Jamal Crawford hit a pair of 3-pointers 23 seconds apart to help the Clippers pull away in the last 3 minutes and former Celtics coach Doc Rivers won his first game back in Boston when Los Angeles beat the Celtics 96-88 Wednesday night. Crawford came off the bench to score 21 points […]
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Girls’ Basketball: Spruce Mountain too much for Oak Hill
Don’t like the way the Phoenix are performing? Wait a minute. The next wave of high pressure is sure to hit, in the form of two or three substitutes who hit the floor and impact the game without any hint of a drop-off. When shots didn’t fall, Spruce Mountain’s depth and defense didn’t falter Wednesday […]
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Men’s basketball: CMCC ditches SMCC
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Central Maine Community College men’s basketball team has largely run roughshod on the opposition this winter, but Wednesday evening, at longtime rival SMCC, the Mustangs found themselves facing a big dose of adversity. Trailing, 50-45, at halftime, CMCC was at a crossroads in its next-to-last game before the semester break, but […]
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Girls’ Basketball: Eddies survive Dragons in 2 OT
BRUNSWICK — When the Brunswick girls’ basketball schedule was released, the Dragons, coming off a miserable 2-16 season, were set to open at home against Eastern Class A champion Cony followed by Edward Little. The smart thinking was to get the two hard ones out of the way, learn from mistakes and get better as […]
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H.S. Basketball: Lewis, Rams shred Blue Devils
Lewis, playing his first basketball game back in Bangor after a year with Lawrence, scored half of the Rams’ 24 points in a hectic second quarter and finished with 26 points in leading the Rams to a convincing 78-49 victory over Lewiston in Friday night’s Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference opener. “They had some bigs out […]