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Maine Basketball Club openings The Maine Basketball Club still has openings for its spring AAU basketball teams. Maine Basketball Club is a new organization based out of the Lewiston-Auburn area. We offer spring AAU basketball teams for boys and girls grades 3 through 12. Teams practice once a week and have a skills session once […]
Unified basketball: Lisbon remains perfect in win over Oxford Hills
LISBON — Scoring points isn’t the type of thing that will get the Lisbon Unified basketball team fired up — they’re used to that. What will get student helpers like Tyler Halls and Austin Fournier pumped up, though, is when one of their teammates dives for a ball or blocks a shot. Those are the […]
College Roundup: CMCC falls to Penn State Fayette in USCAA men’s tourney
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — No. 10 Central Maine Community College kept up with No. 7 Penn State Fayette through a fast-paced, back-and-forth first half on Wednesday night in the first round of the USCAA men’s basketball tournament. In the end, however, the running Roaring Lions simply flaunted too much firepower and advanced with a 93-81 victory. […]
Class AA boys’ basketball final: Portland outlasts South Portland in 2 OT
PORTLAND — It was the coronation most expected, but not in the one-team highlight film fashion many anticipated. The inaugural Class AA boys’ basketball final may go into the history books as the best one for a while. Portland survived double overtime to shoo away age-old, next-door rival South Portland, 52-50, on Saturday night at Cross […]
The Hot Corner: Edward Little leaves fabulous final impression
PORTLAND — Edward Little girls’ basketball was part of something special this winter. Yes, that is almost impossible for the Red Eddies to comprehend right now. It’s difficult to digest for a school where the newest hardwood state championship trophy belongs to the boys and is older than almost every player’s grandparents. When the current players […]
Class A boys’ basketball final: Falmouth frustrates Oceanside
PORTLAND — There is defense, there is good defense, and there is ridiculously, historically great defense. Falmouth fell into the final category on Saturday and won the Class A boys’ basketball championship in a breeze, 59-28, over Oceanside of Rockland. Four Yachtsmen scored in double figures, but Falmouth (18-4) hoisted its sixth Gold Ball and first […]
Class A girls’ basketball final: York edges Lawrence in classic
PORTLAND — In a star-studded Class A girls’ basketball final, one of the best Maine has ever seen, York’s headliners simply had the last word and their Lawrence counterparts cruelly ran out of time. Chloe Smedley’s catch-and-shoot jumper and Shannon Todd’s backdoor layup gave the Wildcats a three-point edge in the final minute of regulation Saturday […]
Class B girls’ basketball final: Houlton was both a star and a Big Dipper
BANGOR — The debate prior to the Class B girls’ basketball championship game Friday night at Cross Insurance Center: Would the Gold Ball go to the best player, or the better team? With apologies to a terrific Gray-New Gloucester group, once Kolleen Bouchard and Houlton got their hands on that coveted state trophy for the second […]
Gray-New Gloucester falls to Houlton, 48-35, in girls’ basketball final
BANGOR — Many basketball state finals feature one team that’s more experienced in that environment than the opponent. Thanks to the alternating, north-south host sites, one team is always more familiar with the building, the baskets and the court, too. It’s always debatable how much those distinctions matter, but they surely didn’t appear to hurt Houlton, […]