PORTLAND — It is official: For the first time since 2011, Class B West girls’ basketball will have a new champion. Greely senior center Ashley Storey scored 19 points Tuesday afternoon, vaulting the Rangers to a 45-31 quarterfinal victory over Lake Region at Portland Expo. Isabel Porter put up nine of her 11 points during […]
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Class A East girls’ quarterfinal: Bangor survives Hampden on last-second block
AUGUSTA — Call this one Saved by the Horn, the Tournament Years. Pushed to the brink of what would have been an unfathomable quarterfinal collapse, No. 1 Bangor used a Katie Butler free throw, a Mary Butler block and a Cordelia Stewart defensive rebound in the closing seconds to survive No. 8 Hampden, 41-40, in a […]
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Class A East girls’ quarterfinal: Lawrence gets revenge against Messalonskee; Nia Irving scores 27
AUGUSTA — Lawrence won’t have to lament a heartbreaking first-round loss in the girls’ basketball tournament to Messalonskee this year. Not even close. Nia Irving erupted for 27 points and 12 rebounds Friday, and No. 2 Lawrence breezed to a 65-44 Class A East quarterfinal win over No. 7 Messalonskee. Messalonskee upset Lawrence in the […]
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Girls’ basketball: Edward Little overcomes spirited Lewiston on strength of Tianna Harriman’s 22
Thanks to a phenomenal effort by the Blue Devils in what was essentially their playoff game, the competitive fire between the two schools burned brightly again for Thursday night, at least. EL started both the third and fourth quarters with a 7-0 run and overcame a halftime deficit to eliminate Lewiston from Class A East […]
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Girls’ basketball: Kristina Blais scores 22, leads Lewiston to third win
LEWISTON — Twelve losses against one win, with minimal chance to make the tournament, are enough to persuade many high school basketball teams to pack it in and play out the string. Not the Lewiston girls, who have answered the bell in late January with their three best offensive games of the season. Thursday’s 52-42 […]
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Girls’ basketball: Mary Butler, Bangor take out Oxford Hills in overtime
PARIS — Everything seemed to be going Oxford Hills’ way at the end of regulation Monday. Bangor and Mary Butler took it all away with a pair of free throws on their first possession of overtime. The Vikings were undone by their second nightmarish scoreless stretch of the afternoon, with the Rams pitching a shutout […]
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Girls’ basketball: Oxford Hills overwhelms icy Lewiston
LEWISTON — As a first-year varsity head coach, Lynn Girouard of Lewiston can rest assured that she’ll never see her team struggle to shoot the ball as mightily as it did Tuesday night, ever again. Already facing an uphill climb against reigning Class A East champion Oxford Hills, Lewiston dug itself a canyon by connecting […]
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Girls’ basketball: Gray-New Gloucester overwhelms York in second half
Led by a defense that held York to two points in the fourth quarter, Gray-NG turned a tense showdown of unbeaten Western Maine Conference teams into a blowout, 52-35, on Tuesday night. Gray-NG (4-0) has been competitive since Katie Whittier’s teams won back-to-back regional titles in 2001 and 2002, but not a year-in, year-out championship […]
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Girls’ hockey: Blue Devils win showdown with Red Hornets, 1-0
The Blue Devils and Red Hornets entered the contest as the state’s last two unbeaten teams. The winner would hold the designation of being the final team with an unblemished mark. More importantly, the winner would take sole possession of first place in the Eastern region. Lewiston skated away with that honor, as Allison Frechette […]
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Class A East Girls’ Soccer: Smith’s penalty kick provided redemption, momentum
AUBURN — The player with the uncontested shot enjoys a decided advantage over the goalkeeper on a soccer penalty kick. That’s the reason coaches lobby so loudly for one when a player is the victim of a violation inside the 18-yard box. It’s why the crowd goes nuts when they see the official extend both […]