AUBURN — Natalie Thurber led a balanced scoring attack with 15 points as Central Maine Community College defeated Community College of Rhode Island 76-71 in a women’s basketball contest Friday. Alex Bessey put in 13 points while having five steals and four assists for the Mustangs (15-1). Brooke Reynolds chipped in 12 points for CMCC, and […]
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Girls' basketball: Monmouth gets past Madison, 53-38
Abby Ferland of Monmouth Academy goes for a layup while being guarded by Marah Hall of Madison in Monmouth on Friday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) MONMOUTH — For Monmouth, games against Madison just mean a little something extra. When the Mustangs faced their MVC rival Friday night, some of the players had to give a little […]
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Girls' basketball: Edward Little holds off pesky Lewiston
Despite being surrounded by Lewiston players, Edward Little’s Chantel Ouellette drives to the basket during Friday night’s game in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) AUBURN — Lewiston didn’t let Edward Little pull away, and the Red Eddies refused to let the Blue Devils overtake them. “I kind of knew that it was going to be a […]
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Boothbay girls spoil Oak Hill's solid outing
Oak Hill’s Desirae Dumais, left, tries to get past Boothbay’s Sydney Meader during their game in Wales on Thursday. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) WALES — For four straight games, all wins, Oak Hill girls basketball coach Mike Labonte had been seeing signs that his team was starting to come together. And even in the loss that […]
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Roundup: Spruce Mountain rallies past Winthrop in overtime
JAY — Haley Turcotte helped lead the charge as Spruce Mountain erased a nine-point fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime and then defeated Winthrop 49-44 in the teams’ Mountain Valley Conference contest on Thursday. Turcotte hit four 3-pointers and finished with a team-leading 18 points for the Phoenix (6-6). Morgan Dalton added 12 in the win, […]
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Boys' basketball: Mountain Valley spreads its wings, whips Lisbon 57-39
Mountain Valley’s Keegan Davis, left and Michale Pare, right, team up to stop Lisbon’s DJ Douglass as he drives to the basket during Thursday night’s basketball game in Lisbon. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LISBON — With its top scorer battling sickness, Mountain Valley’s other players had to battle for him. Part of that meant battling against […]
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Time-out: Phoenix girls' team just wants to have fun — and win
Spruce Mountain coach Zachary Keene speaks with his players during a summer-camp practices in Jay. You don’t have to look hard to see why the Spruce Mountain Phoenix are enjoying their newfound prosperity in the Mountain Valley Conference. Ask coach Zachary Keene about his Spruce Mountain girls’ basketball team’s success and he’ll tell you it […]
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Mt. Blue’s Mittelstadt is a player to watch — and applaud
Mt. Blue sophomore guard and captain Lexi Mittelstadt (24) takes the ball down the court against Skowhegan in Farmington on Monday night. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) FARMINGTON — Being the second leading scorer in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference A North is quite an accomplishment for a sophomore, but Lexi Mittelstadt’s exploits on offense has also […]
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Gray-NG boys run away from Lake Region
GRAY — Once Gray-New Gloucester found its rhythm, there wasn’t much Lake Region could do in Tuesday’s boys’ basketball contest. The Patriots took control in the second quarter and never looked back in a 63-34 win, their second over the Lakers this season. “I definitely think it was momentum,” Gray-NG guard John Martin said. “We […]
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Gray-New Gloucester girls edge Lake Region
Gray-New Gloucester’s Jordan Grant, center, drives to the basket past Lake Region’s Shauna Hancock, left and Lauren Jakobs, right, during the first half of Tuesday’s game. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) GRAY — The Gray-New Gloucester girls’ basketball team lost control of the game but managed to hold on to win it, beating Lake Region 42-41 on […]