Blanketed by two hard-nosed Seahawk seniors — Nick Gorey, then Matt Burnham off the bench — Hickey went nearly 26 minutes of game time without a field goal after a typically explosive first quarter. With the Ramblers on the brink of being swept in the season series and leaving a first-round bye in the Class C South […]
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Boys’ basketball: Spruce Mountain slips away from Mt. Blue
It’s the kind of game the Phoenix admittedly have found a way to lose a few times this winter. Not this time, though. Andrew Darling — he of the earlier ‘T’ — sank two free throws to reclaim the lead with 2:22 to go, and Spruce Mountain kept cashing in from the line to polish off a […]
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Boys’ basketball: Leavitt races past Mt. Blue for second win
Most coaches know they can expect a mixed bag of commitment and comportment from their team in that situation. The restless Hornets are only human. From guiding many of the same athletes in football, however, Mike Hathaway could rest assured that his gang wouldn’t quit competing. Persistence pays: Leavitt has won consecutive home games after […]
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Boys’ basketball: Edward Little accelerates past Lewiston, 71-44
From that point forward, EL looked like a team interested in embellishing the page of the record book that tells everyone it has won a playoff game in eight consecutive seasons and counting. The red-hot Red Eddies scored the final 15 points of the half, hit a 3-pointer out of intermission and cruised to a […]
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Boys’ basketball: Waynflete gets last word, puts away Poland
POLAND — When the 3-pointers stopped falling for Poland on Saturday night, the Knights didn’t get stops at the other end of the court as convincingly or consistently, either. It added up to a fourth-quarter flourish for Waynflete, in the form of a 17-4 finishing kick and a 58-45 WMC boys’ basketball victory. Abel Alemayo, Milo […]
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Boys’ basketball: Edward Little earns sweet redemption against Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Edward Little boys’ basketball has experienced its share of satisfying, signature wins in the vintage decade-and-a-half that Mike Adams has shepherded the program. Hard to say where the 54-46 victory over Brunswick on Saturday afternoon falls on the hit list, but it certainly soars to the top of this season’s chart. Thirty-nine days […]
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Boys’ basketball: Winthrop depth, Hickey 3s too much for Wiscasset
WINTHROP — Funny, on a Friday night when Jacob Hickey scored 31 points and went 8-for-11 from 3-point range, that Winthrop played probably its best overall team game of the boys’ basketball season. Sensational efforts off the bench by Andrew Pazdziorko and 6-foot-7 freshman center Cam Wood also were substantial to the story line as Winthrop […]
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Boys’ basketball: Hickey (21 points), Winthrop get back at Dirigo
WINTHROP — With his drive to the basket 54 seconds into the game on Wednesday night, Winthrop’s explosive junior Jacob Hickey doubled his scoring output from a loss to Dirigo at Augusta Civic Center in December. On the comfort of the Ramblers’ home floor, given an opportunity for redemption in front of a packed, bipartisan crowd, […]
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Girls’ basketball: Lincoln challenge too tall for Spruce Mountain
JAY — Spruce Mountain is vertically challenged this girls’ basketball season, without any player standing taller than 5-foot-9. If you saw a 6-foot-2 senior on Lincoln’s bench and speculated that she might play a substantial role in the KVAC contest on Tuesday night at the Phoenix Dome, you guessed well. Samantha Burke provided 10 points on […]
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Boys’ basketball: Cox (18 points, 15 rebounds) keys Edward Little past Windham
AUBURN — It wasn’t long ago that the Edward Little boys’ basketball team bid “Auld Lang Syne” to the bumpy beginnings of the 2015-16 season. The Red Eddies were struggling at 1-5, yes, but everyone in the starting five had a defined role, at least, except for captain and lone senior starter Austin Cox. “He was […]