Mountain Valley’s Brooke Carver looks for a teammate to pass the ball to while Oak Hill’s Desirae Dumais plays defense during Friday night’s game in Rumford. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) RUMFORD — Oak Hill’s defense clamped down and its free throws went in as the Raiders defeated Mountain Valley, 39-27, in MVC girls’ basketball action Friday. […]
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Messalonskee girls too much for Mt. Blue
Mt. Blue High School’s Jacelyn Dagger (32) tries to split Messalonskee High School defenders Emily Parent (12) and Allyssa Turner (33) in Oakland on Friday. (Michael G. Seamans/Waterville Morning Sentinel) OAKLAND — Since dropping its first two games of the season, the Messalonskee High School girls basketball team has found its stride. That run of […]
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Bobcat Beat: Bates women gearing up for NESCAC season
Bates College’s Melanie Binkhorst looks to the basket past Husson University’s Sami Ireland as she shoots the ball during the game at Bates College last weekend. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) Nor rain, nor sleet, nor bomb cyclone … The Bates College women’s basketball team held a practice Thursday morning, despite the weather that shut down a […]
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Roundup: NYA edges Buckfield in boys' basketball
Oxford Hills’ Stephen Dailey eyes the referee as he signals a pin against Cony’s Isaiah Dodge. (Brewster Burns photo) BUCKFIELD — Te’Andre King found the net with two mintes left in regulation to give North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) a 43-41 boys’ baskball victory over Buckfield. King led NYA (2-5) with a game-high 21 points and […]
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Basketball: Spruce Mountan pulls away from Hall-Dale
JAY — When Spruce Mountain started rebounding and made the usual second-half adjustments, everything fell into place in that critical fourth quarter at The Nest on Wednesday night. What they lacked in height, the Phoenix (4-3) made it up with their tenacious defense. When Spruce’s shots started falling, the Phoenix ended up choreographing a splendid […]
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Winthrop repels Carrabec in MVC girls' contest
Winthrop High School’s Jillian Schmelzer, center, and Aaliiyah WilsonFalcone block Carrabec High School’s Melanie Clark during a basketball game on Wednesday in Winthrop.(Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal) WINTHROP — It was looking like the kind of game the Winthrop High School girls basketball team had lost before. Carrabec was pulling off a comeback, chopping a 15-point third-quarter […]
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No Isaiah Thomas, no Gordon Hayward, but still plenty for Celtics, Cavs to play for
WALTHAM, Mass. — When Brad Stevens studied the video of Boston’s last game against Cleveland, he skipped over a handful of plays and put the sound on mute. “I didn’t want to watch the injury or what happened after it,” the Celtics coach said on Tuesday, a day before his team was to play the […]
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Isaiah Thomas has smashing debut as Cavs down Trail Blazers
CLEVELAND — Isaiah Thomas had one last wait. Sitting on the scorer’s table, Thomas could see the end of his seventh-month odyssey in front of him. And when the buzzer finally sounded and the Cleveland crowd erupted for a player it barely knows, Thomas took the last few steps onto the court and completed a […]
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H.S. basketball roundup: Mountain Valley girls shoot past Richmond
RUMFORD — Brooke Carver hit six 3-pointers and scored 22 points as Mountain Valley pulled away in the second half to defeat Richmond 59-44 in a girls’ basketball matchup Tuesday. Rylee Sevigny scored 21 for Mountain Valley, while her sister Avery added 13. Richmond received a team-high 18 from Sydney Tilton. The loss brings Richmond […]
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College basketball: St. Joseph's sweeps Bates men, women
LEWISTON — The Bates men’s basketball team suffered another heartbreaking loss on its home floor, falling to St. Joseph’s 75-72 in overtime Tuesday at Alumni Gymnasium. The Bobcats also lost to Brandeis on a buzzer-beater Sunday. Tuesday was their third close game in five days, as they defeated Babson 78-75 on Friday. Jeff Spellman paced […]