Spruce Mountain’s Brett Frey shoots at the basket past Gray-New Gloucester’s Ryan Lachance during Saturday’s 2018 Maine State basketball tournament at the Portland Expo.(Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) PORTLAND — It seemed that any time Gray-New Gloucester took a shot, the ball found its way through the net at the Portland Expo on Saturday afternoon. The No. […]
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B South boys' quarterfinal: Top-seeded Wells survives Freeport
PORTLAND — Poor free throw shooting by top-seeded Wells through most of Saturday’s Class B South boys’ basketball quarterfinal kept No. 8 Freeport in the game. Wells, which had lost to Freeport by 15 points just 11 days earlier, knew it was tempting fate, so it put its fate in t he hands of forwards […]
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D South boys' quarterfinal: Seacoast Christian survives scrappy Forest Hills
AUGUSTA — The Forest Hills boys basketball team played the game the way it has all season. Scrappy. It was that scrappy play that helped it fight back from an 11-point deficit to tie Seacoast Christian with three minutes remaining in a Class D South quarterfinal showdown Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. Unfortunately for […]
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D South boys' quarterfinal: No. 1 Greenville cruises past No. 8 Rangeley
AUGUSTA — The Rangeley boys’ basketball team needed a perfect game. And a sluggish showing from its Greenville opponent. It got neither. Greenville came in as the defending champion and top seed and played like it, scoring 21 of the first 23 points and never looking back en route to a 56-22 win in a […]
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B South boys' quarterfinal: Capers cruise past Falcons in second half
Mountain Valley’s Jacob Blanchard pushes past Cape Elizabeth’s David Hare during Saturday’s 2018 Maine State basketball tournament at the Portland Expo. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) PORTLAND — The exclamation point, if not the turning point, for No. 2 Cape Elizabeth in Saturday’s Class B South boys’ basketball quarterfinal against No. 7 Mountain Valley required two saves. […]
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B South boys' quarterfinal: No. 3 Yarmouth grinds it out against No. 6 Maranacook
PORTLAND — When Maranacook’s perimeter shooting dried up, the drought opened the door to Yarmouth’s transition game in a Class B South boys’ quarterfinal game at the Portland Expo on Saturday morning. The No. 6 Black Bears’ (13-6) stingy defense tried to hold the No. 3 Clippers (13-6) in check, but Yarmouth had other plans […]
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Thomas earns EL's Sixth Player Award
Terrell Thomas receiving EL’s Sixth Player award. Terrell Thomas, a senior at Edward Little High School, received the team’s sixth player award on Feb. 2. Established in 2000, the annual “Sixth Player Award” is presented annually in honor of retired, 35-year assistant principal Steve Galway — “Mr. Basketball” — to the Edward Little boys’ basketball […]
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B South boys' basketball playoff preview: Region is wide open
Players to watch: Sr. F Cam Cousins, Wells; Jr. G Matt Sherburne, Wells; Sr. G Finn Bowe, Cape Elizabeth; Jr. C Andrew Hartel, Cape Elizabeth; Sr. F Nolan Hagerty, Yarmouth; Jr. G Noah Eckersley-Ray, Yarmouth; Sr. G Brett Frey, Spruce Mountain; Sr. G Mason Shink, Spruce Mountain; Sr. G Josiah Rottari, Gray-New Gloucester; Jr. […]
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D South boys' basketball playoff preview: Greenville the team to beat
Players to watch: Sr. G Nick Foley, Greenville; Sr. F Connor DiAngelo, Greenville; Sr. G Joshua Brown, Valley; Sr. C Dillon Beane, Valley; Sr. C Alex Shoureus, A.R. Gould; Sr. G/F Ernest Lorange, A.R. Gould; Sr. G Carson Veilleux, Forest Hills; Jr. F Brandon Gilboe, Forest Hills; Sr. G/F Jet Archer, Seacoast Christian; Sr. G/F […]
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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 […]