ALBANY, NY — Brooke Reynolds landed a game-high 20 points as Central Maine Community College used pressure defense to jettison Villa Maria in women’s basketball action Saturday. Kristina Blais hit four 3s for 12 points, while Jordyn Reynolds notched a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Mustangs (19-1). Natalie Thurber scored 12 […]
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H.S. roundup: Lutrzykowski scores 100th in Saints' win
AUBURN — Avery Lutrzykowski’s third goal of the game was a memorable one, the 100th goal of her high school career, in St. Dom’s 9-0 victory over the Yarmouth Clippers in a girls’ hockey contest Saturday. Lutrzykowski recorded a natural hat trick as she scored the Saints’ fifth, sixth and seventh goals of the first […]
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Boys' basketball: Oxford Hills breathes easy against Leavitt
TURNER — Four of Oxford Hills’ first six victories so far this season have been by single digits, so being able to work with some breathing room for most of Saturday night’s KVAC game against a young Leavitt team was a welcome change. Good ball movement and their trademark strong defense allowed the Vikings to […]
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College basketball: Bates men and women fall to Wesleyan
LEWISTON — Despite the Bates women’s basketball team scoring the final 10 points of the game, Wesleyan held on for a 47-46 victory in NESCAC action Friday evening. With the Bobcats (7-13) down by one and 13 seconds remaining, Maeve Vitale was able to tip a pass into the backcourt. And then a last-second heave […]
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Local roundup: Rangeley girls rally to beat Kents Hill
Eventual winner Curtis Gauvin of Mountain Valley cuts his way across the course at the top of the head wall at Black Mountain on Friday. (Brewster Burns photo) RANGELEY — Down 12 points in the fourth quarter, the Rangeley Lakers went on a 22-5 run in the fourth quarter to defeat Kents Hill 50-43 in […]
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Boys' basketball: Short-handed Ramblers rebound for big win over Phoenix
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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Men's basketball: UMaine-Farmington earns crucial win over New England College
FARMINGTON — There were turnovers galore and bodies being knocked around like tackling dummies, but in all that mayhem, the University of Maine at Farmington emerged with a 74-65 victory over New England College in a North Atlantic Conference men’s basketball game Friday night. The Beavers used textbook passing and second-half tenacity to hand the Pilgrims […]
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Girls' basketball: Poland shakes off York
Julia Babcock of York goes up for a layup in traffic against Poland’s Nathalie Theriault (11) and Alyssa Gagne (12). POLAND — Friday night’s girls’ basketball matchup between York and Poland felt a lot like it was being played in the Augusta Civic Center. The up-tempo contest was either team’s game in the first half, but […]
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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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High school basketball polls
The top 10 basketball teams in Maine, through games of Jan. 24, 2018, based on voting from Pressherald.com, Centralmaine.com and Sunjournal.com staff, with first-place votes in parenthesis, followed by total points: BOYS Greely (3) 54 Portland (1) 51 Hampden Academy (1) 46 Scarborough (1) 44 South Portland 34 Hermon 27 Edward Little 23 Biddeford 12 […]