AUBURN — Shaun Hill scored 27 points to lead Central Maine Community College to a 97-64 win over Southern Maine Community College on Wednesday at a jam-packed Kirk Hall gymnasium. Carrington Miller added 16 while Luis Medina had 11 for the Mustangs (25-2). Jalen Lincoln chipped in 10. Southern Maine got 14 from Scott Proudman […]
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Girls’ basketball: ‘Cats scrap Raiders
WALES — Paige McElwain takes pride in annoying her opponents. When she’s frustrating the other team, she knows she is doing her job, and she does it quite well. MeElwain was everywhere Oak Hill didn’t want the feisty junior guard to be in the first half of a Western Class B girls’ basketball preliminary. McElwain’s […]
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Western C Boys’ Prelim: Black Bears eliminate Saints
READFIELD — The end result came early for the St. Dom’s boys’ basketball team Wednesday night. The 12th-seeded Saints were no match for the high-flying, run-and-gun Maranacook Black Bears. The No. 5 Black Bears used their frenetic pace to 20 or more points in each of the first three quarters to run away with a […]
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Western C prelim: Hall-Dale ousts Lisbon
BRUNSWICK — The last time a Lisbon High School boys’ basketball team advanced to the postseason, it was the 2005-06 season. The seventh-seeded Greyhounds that year lost to Poland in a Western Maine Class B preliminary contest. What followed was eight years of tough times before this year’s Greyhounds put together an eight-game mid-season winning […]
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Boys’ Eastern A Prelim: Devils bounce Bulldogs, advance to quarterfinals
The eighth-seeded Blue Devils followed the run by going nearly a full quarter without scoring a point. Yet the suffocating zone defense that is now becoming their trademark kept the ninth-seeded Bulldogs at bay just enough to earn them a ticket to the Augusta Civic Center for the fourth year in a row. “It’s like […]
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State finals on TV after agreement between CCCC, Time Warner Cable
PORTLAND — With Time Warner Cable and the Cumberland County Civic Center reaching a three-year production agreement, the Class A high school basketball state finals will be televised on March 1, the cable company announced in a news release Tuesday. The agreement will allow Time Warner Cable to extend its fiber-optic connectivity in order to […]
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Junior Division February 1 Hoop Camp 38, Sam’s Sandwich Shoppe 35 It was a tale of two halves, as Hoop Camp came back from six points down in the first half to celebrate a come-from-behind victory. Jamaine Luizzo scored eight of his team-high 14 points to lead Hoop Camp. Dominic Jacobs scored nine, followed by […]
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Western C Prelim: Cougars survive and advance
DIXFIELD — Nothing like tournament time to kick in the ol’ survival instincts. No. 9 Monmouth had No. 8 Dirigo backed into a corner in Tuesday night’s Western C prelim at Defoe Gymnasium. It was already clear to the Cougars that they couldn’t shoot their way out, so they scratched and clawed their way to […]
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College hoops roundup: Maine women, CMCC men win easily
ORONO — Sophie Weckstrom led all scorers with 16 points to send the University of Maine to a 65-53 win over Binghamton in women’s college basketball action on Sunday.Liz Wood chipped in with 13 points and six rebounds for the Black Bears (13-11). Men’s basketballCMCC 120, NMCC 66AUBURN — All 18 Mustangs scored as Central […]
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H.S. Basketball: Past meets present in boys’ tournament
Coaches and players often downplay what happened in last year’s high school basketball tournament when talking about the present. And the past can be irrelevant from that perspective, depending upon how much circumstances have changed. But last year can also serve as a motivator, reminder, foundation or harbinger for the present and future. It can […]