Joshua Chery and Corey David, from the CMCC basketball team, pose for a photo in front of the athletic department’s new video screen. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) AUBURN — FOX’s introduction to the 2018 World Series, narrated by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, left an impression on Central Maine Community College men’s basketball coach Dave […]
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New era in UMaine men's basketball begins with Richard Barron at the helm
University of Maine forward Andrew Fleming (0) works on shooting during the team’s first basketball practice of the 2018-2019 season. The team is back with a new head coach this year, Richard Barron, who used to be the coach of the women’s basketball team. (Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald) ORONO — “Finish strong.” Richard Barron stood […]
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Men's basketball: UMaine-Farmington earns crucial win over New England College
FARMINGTON — There were turnovers galore and bodies being knocked around like tackling dummies, but in all that mayhem, the University of Maine at Farmington emerged with a 74-65 victory over New England College in a North Atlantic Conference men’s basketball game Friday night. The Beavers used textbook passing and second-half tenacity to hand the Pilgrims […]
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Men's basketball: NHTI hands CMCC first loss
AUBURN — The calendar says November, but the way Central Maine Community College and NHTI, Concord’s Community College, were playing Thursday night it might as well have said February. The top two teams in the Yankee Small College Conference entering play battled like it was a playoff matchup, and it was the Lynx who handed […]
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Men's basketball: Bates Bobcats will look to run this season
LEWISTON — The Bates College men’s basketball team is out to prove this season that it’s not about the size of the Bobcat in the fight, but the size of the fight in the Bobcat. That is to say, the Bobcats will be lacking size this year. Among the six seniors that Bates graduated last […]
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Men's basketball: Gilpin, Coyne looking to make sophomore jump for Bates
Bates College sophomores Nick Gilpin (from Hampden), left, and Tom Coyne (from Falmouth), are looking to take the next step this season after solid freshmen campaigns. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — When Nick Gilpin and Thomas Coyne came to Bates College together, first on an official visit and then as classmates, they were one-time teammates […]
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Men's basketball: CMCC boards up UMaine-Augusta
UMA’s Quinn Mitchell II tries to pass around CMCC’s Jack Sylvester, of Greene, during a game on Wednesday at the Augusta Civic Center. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta men’s basketball team already proved once this week that it could come back from a large deficit. And it looked like […]
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Local roundup: CMCC women rumble over Champlain-St. Lawrence
AUBURN — Kristen Huntress made 4 of 5 of her 3-point attempts in scoring a game-high 16 points and sisters Jordyn and Brooke Reynolds combined for 26 as Central Maine Community College routed Champlain-St. Lawrence, 83-27, in a women’s college basketball game at Kirk Hall on Sunday. Huntress made half of the Mustangs’ eight 3-pointers, […]
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Former UMaine guard Wes Myers joins South Carolina men’s basketball team
University of Maine’s Wes Myers, right, goes to the basket past Central Connecticut State University’s Eric Bowles during their basketball game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor in November 2016. Former University of Maine guard Wes Myers — who was suspended from the team last February — will play his final season of college […]
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North Carolina gets redemption, wins NCAA men’s basketball title
North Carolina forward Theo Pinson (1) drives to the basket over Gonzaga guard Nigel Williams-Goss, left, during the second half in the finals of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 3, 2017, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York) GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — It’s OK, Carolina, you can open your eyes. An unwatchable […]