Players to watch: Yarmouth — Adam LaBrie (6-1 Sr. G) Cody Cook (6-0 Jr. G), Jordan Brown (6-1 Sr. F); Cape Elizabeth — Justin Guerette (6-3 Jr. F), Jack O’Rourke (6-0 Jr. G), Quinn Hewitt (6-3 Soph. F); Morse — Ethan Winglass (Sr. F), Keegan McDonough (Jr. G), Juwan Moore (Jr. C); Lake Region — […]
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Class C West boys’ tournament preview: Dirigo, Winthrop, Boothbay aim to restore MVC bragging rights
Players to watch: Boothbay — Evan Hepburn (6-1 Sr. F), John Hepburn (6-3 Sr. F), Jacob Leonard (6-0 Soph. F), Julian Aponte (6-0 Sr. G); Dirigo — Riley Robinson (6-2 Jr, G/F), Clay Swett (6-2 Jr. F), Kaine Hutchins (6-2 Jr. F), Gavin Arsenault (6-2 Jr. F), Tyler Frost (5-8 Jr. G); Waynflete — Milo […]
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Class D West boys’ tournament preview: Forest Hills undefeated, seeking redemption
Players to watch: Forest Hills — Tanner Daigle (6-4 Sr. C), Matt Turner (6-1 Jr. G), Brandon Ouellette (5-7 Sr. G), Ryan Petrin (6-3 Sr. F); Valley — Cody Laweryson (6-2 Jr. F/G), Dillon Beane (5-11 Fr. F), Collin Miller (6-1 Jr C/F); Hyde — Antoine Montgomery (6-0 Jr. G), Kiefer Cundy (5-8 Sr. G), […]
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LIVE BLOG: Eastern Class A girls’ quarterfinals from the Augusta Civic Center
Follow along as Sun Journal reporters bring you live coverage of the Eastern Class A girls’ auqrterfinals from the Augusta Civic Center! Click below to join us. Live Blog Maine Eastern Class A girls quarterfinals
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Class C West boys’ basketball preliminary: Maranacook takes out St. Dom’s with help from six Kyle Wilbur 3s
READFIELD — Another year, another Wilbur’s shooting touch allows the Maranacook boys’ basketball team to fight another day. Fifty-one weeks ago, Kyle Wilbur watched his older brother, Taylor, hit eight 3-pointers and 34 points in a Class C West tournament game. This time it was sophomore Kyle’s turn to torch St. Dom’s with six treys and […]
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Boys’ basketball: Richmond Bobcats repel Buckfield Bucks
RICHMOND — Typically when your team is up 21-0 after the first quarter of a basketball game, you begin to write your opponent off. On Wednesday, the Western Class D fifth-seeded Richmond High School boys’ basketball team hosted No. 12 Buckfield in a preliminary playoff game in Richmond. With the Bobcats taking a 21-0 lead […]
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Maine Basketball Hall of Fame: Fortin, Clark, Meader, DiRenzo part of 2015 class
Four men with local ties will be part of the second induction class into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame when it is enshrined this summer. The selections of players Paul Fortin of Lewiston and Denis Clark of Winthrop, University of Maine at Farmington coach Dick Meader, and referee Mike DiRenzo of Auburn were announced […]
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Falcons fly off handle, floor Hawks
RUMFORD — When Mountain Valley decided to play its game, things turned out positive in a Class C girls’ preliminary playoff game Tuesday night. Sydney Petrie recorded a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds as the fifth-ranked Falcons ultimately responded to the challenge and turned up the heat in the second half en route […]
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Class B West boys’ preliminary: Greely gets revenge against Poland behind Jordan Bagshaw’s big second half
CUMBERLAND — Not many players on the court Tuesday night for Greely performed in that capacity a year ago, when Poland sprang a comeback and an upset for the ages in the Class B West boys’ basketball championship. That didn’t stop the Rangers from desiring revenge any less passionately, or achieving it any less decisively. Sophomore […]
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College basketball: Dean Smith, legendary UNC coach, dies
Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball’s Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left the bench, has died. He was 83. The retired coach died “peacefully” at his North Carolina home Saturday night, the school said […]