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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C South girls' quarter: Boothbay eases past Traip
AUGUSTA — The Boothbay Region High School girls basketball team’s tournament run started slower than the Seahawks expected. They quickly made up for lost time. Page Brown scored 24 points and top-seeded Boothbay rolled past No. 9 Traip Academy, 59-40, in the Class C South quarterfinals at the Augusta Civic Center. Boothbay remained unbeaten at […]
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C South girls' quarter: No. 6 Richmond surprises No. 3 OOB
Old Orchard Beach’s Meghan Niedzwiecki and Richmond’s Lindsie Irish chase a loose ball during a Class C South quarterfinal game Tuesday at the Augusta Civic Center. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — History was looking to repeat itself. The Richmond girls basketball team was down — again — to Old Orchard Beach — again — in […]
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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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Hall-Dale boys survive test from Traip
Hall-Dale High School’s Ashtyn Abbott, right, runs into Traip High School’s Charlie Driscoll during their Class C South quarterfinal Saturday in Augusta. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — The Hall-Dale boys basketball team was in trouble. Or at least the scoreboard said as much. The Bulldogs themselves never fretted. “If you’ve watched us, you know that […]
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Winthrop holds off Madison in a Class C South quarterfinal
Winthrop’s Jared Maclaughlin, center, is fouled by Madison’s Matt Oliver as he goes up for a layup during Monday afternoon’s playoff game at the Augusta Civic Center. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) AUGUSTA — Winthrop is all about defense, and Winthrop’s defense is all about helping the helper. Second-seeded Winthrop’s defense did more than its fair share […]
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Boothbay stuns Waynflete in C South quarterfinal
AUGUSTA — Boothbay struggled through the first half and it seemed Waynflete was well on its way to victory in the Class C South boys’ basketball quarterfinals Monday at Augusta Civic Center. Instead, the sixth-seeded Seahawks rallied back to upset the third-seeded Flyers 65-64. “I did not expect that,” Boothbay’s Hunter Crocker said. “It was […]
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And One: Mountain Valley boys in position to soar next year
Mountain Valley’s Cameron Godbois shoots the ball as Cape Elizabeth’s Tanner Carpenter and Andrew Hartel play defense during Saturday’s 2018 Maine State basketball tournament at the Portland Expo. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) Not much went right for Mountain Valley in its 47-31 loss to Cape Elizabeth in the B South quarterfinals Saturday. The Falcons, though, are […]
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C South boys' basketball playoff preview: Dark horse could emerge from region
Players to watch: Sr. G Tyler Nadeau, Hall-Dale; Jr. F/C Ashtyn Abbott, Hall-Dale; Jr. G Jared McLaughlin, Winthrop; Jr. C Cam Wood, Winthrop; Sr. F Christian Brooks, Waynflete; So. G Askar Houssein, Waynflete; Sr. F Cooper Chiasson, Dirigo; Sr. G Luke Lueders, Dirigo; Sr. G Zach Small, Richmond; Sr. G Matt Rines, Richmond; Sr. G […]
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Class C South girls' basketball playoff preview: Boothbay, Monmouth on collision course
Players to watch: Jr. F Faith Blethen, Boothbay; Sr. F Page Brown, Boothbay; Sr. G Tia Day, Monmouth; Sr. F Abbey Allen, Monmouth; Sr. G Brianna Plante, Old Orchard Beach; So. C Maggie Strohm, Old Orchard Beach; Sr. G Sydney LeBlanc, Madison; Sr. C Sydney Underhill-Tilton, Richmond; Sr. F Cassidy Delano, Traip; Sr. G Caroline […]