Andrew Shaw of Spruce Mountain High School gets a piece of Cam Wood of Winthrop while trying to block Shaw’s shot during the first half in Jay on Friday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) JAY — The Winthrop Ramblers were shorthanded and coming off a tough loss to Boothbay when they entered the hostile Spruce Mountain gym […]
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Girls' basketball: Mt. Abram survives Winthrop comeback
Mt. Abram High School’s Kaylee Knight (14) battles for a rebound with Winthrop High School’s Layne Audet (22) and Kena Souza (23), right, as teammate Ashlyn Sorel (30) helps in the first half at Mt. Abram High School in Strong on Friday. (Michael G. Seamans/Kennebec Journal) SALEM — A 16-point lead had disappeared, and in […]
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Winthrop boys hold off Oak Hill
Oak Hill High School’s Gavin Rawstron goes up for a shot through Winthrop High School’s defenders during a basketball game in Wales on Tuesday. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal) WALES — The first two possessions were a preview of what was to come for the rest of Tuesday’s MVC boys’ basketball game between Winthrop and Oak Hill. […]
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Girls' basketball: Oak Hill finds its shot, routs Winthrop
Oak Hill’s Kaitlyn Ridley, right, wraps up Winthrop’s Aaliyah WilsonFalcone as they vie for control of a rebound during the second half of Friday night’s girls’ varsity basketball game in Winthrop. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) WINTHROP — Oak Hill coach Michael Labonte and Winthrop coach Joe Burnham wanted their respective teams to dictate the tempo of Friday […]
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Sevigny, Mountain Valley girls sink Winthrop
RUMFORD — A freshman stepped to the line with nine seconds left and the game tied. “I was really scared because I knew the game was probably on the line right there,” Rylee Sevigny said. Sevigny calmly — at least it appeared so — made both free throws, and Mountain Valley held on for a […]
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Winthrop boys too much for Madison
Madison Memorial High School’s Matt Oliver (24) battles for the rebound with Winthrop High School’s Jevin Smith in Madison on Wednesday. (Michael G. Seamans/Waterville Morning Sentinel) MADISON — For a game in which his team held a double-digit lead for the better part of three quarters, Winthrop boys basketball coach Todd MacArthur rarely felt like […]
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Girls' basketball: Madison takes down Winthrop with big second quarter
Winthrop High School’s Jillian Smhmeltzer guards Madison High School’s Emily Edgerly during a basketball game Tuesday in Winthrop. (Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal) WINTHROP — The standings suggested it would be close. And up until the opening minute of the second quarter, Tuesday’s matchup between the Madison and Winthrop girls’ basketball teams was living up to the […]
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Boys' Basketball: Bulldogs hold off Ramblers, 49-46
WINTHROP — Winthrop coach Todd MacArthur has made taking care of the basketball a priority since the beginning of the season. On Saturday night, his Ramblers learned a painful lesson on why it is so important. Winthrop took unbeaten Hall-Dale down to the wire despite turning the ball over 28 times. Any one of those […]
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And One Basketball Notes: Jordan high on coach's lockdown list
Gray-New Gloucester coach Mike Andreasen has seen enough of Bri Jordan to know how she can change a game at either end of the floor. After she locked down Poland senior Nathalie Grant in the Patriots’ 47-37 win over the Knights on Thursday, Andreasen made it clear how highly he thinks of his junior forward’s […]
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Boys' Basketball: McLaughlin (29 points) leads Ramblers past Bobcats
WINTHROP — Winthrop junior Jared McLaughlin didn’t blink when given the assignment to guard Richmond’s leading scorer, Zach Small, in Tuesday night’s MVC matchup with Richmond. McLaughlin also didn’t let such a difficult task affect him at the other end, either, and ended up matching Richmond’s 1,000-career-point scorer basket for basket. McLaughlin hit seven 3-pointers […]