PLAYERS TO WATCH: Sr. F Cordelia Stewart, Bangor (11.g ppg), Sr. F Mary Butler, Bangor (9 ppg, 7 rpg); Jr. F Nia Irving, Lawrence (23.4 ppg, 18.2 rpg), Jr. G Dominique Lewis, Lawrence (13.8 ppg, 8.1 apg, 51 3’s); Sr. F Anna Winslow 14.4 ppg, 7 rpg), Sr. G Mikayla Morin (10 rpg, 3.3 apg); […]
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H.S. girls’ basketball: Oxford Hills is ready for another tourney run
PARIS — It’s beginning to look a lot like last year for the Oxford Hills girls’ basketball team. And that’s not such a bad thing. A year ago, the Vikings started slow, going 1-3 but won 13 of its last 14 games to earn the third seed. Oxford Hills then survived an overtime game in […]
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H.S. girls’ basketball: Oxford Hills fends off Mt. Blue
“I was a little nervous about that,” Pelletier said. “Sometimes you get to Senior Night and kids try to overdo it. There’s a lot of adrenaline going. We just tried to have everyone do their own roles and it went well.” The Vikings had little trouble focusing on business in a key regular season finale […]
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Oxford Hills seniors Mikayla Morin, Davis Turner sign with University of Maine
PARIS — NCAA Division I athletes aren’t plentiful in Maine, and they are especially rare in the rural, less affluent regions of the state. Such signings certainly aren’t an annual event at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, so the odds of having two recruits within the same senior class are remote, indeed. You might say that […]
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Boys’ basketball: McIntyres, Gilpin lead Hampden rout of Oxford Hills
If there were any visible Saturday night, they might have been from the Vikings hitting the deck after a vicious, first-quarter knockout. The Broncos put on a half-court clinic at both ends in the opening period and made it a winning week away from home in style, breezing to a 73-38 victory. “We knew it […]
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H.S. Wrestling: Malik Geiger makes his mark on mat for Oxford Hills
PARIS — There are advantages in a young life to being a football fullback and linebacker, or having an early growth spurt. Malik Geiger would tell you that immediate success in high school wrestling isn’t one of them. “I came in at 152 (pounds), and it was a lot of seniors who were very physically […]
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Nordic skiing: Nate McNutt, Julia Dillon lead Oxford Hills sweep
NORWAY — Julia Dillon won the Oxford Hills Viking Classic on her home course Wednesday at Roberts Farm, but the most grueling part of the race was run Tuesday. That’s when Dillon and her Oxford Hills teammates got out of class in the afternoon, made the short journey through town, arrived at the trail and […]
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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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H.S. girls’ basketball: Oxford Hills defeats Messalonskee with strong inside game
Though young on the perimeter, long-distance shooting has been a spark for the Vikings, especially with three injured players working their way back into the lineup at various times. With that outside shooting going cold recently, Oxford Hills knew it had to compensate. “Ever since the Mt. Blue game, we really decided that this wasn’t […]
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Boys’ basketball: Fleming’s buzzer-beater boosts Oxford Hills past Lewiston in OT
PARIS — If you want to see strength against strength, athleticism against athleticism, there won’t be a much better exhibition than the final eight seconds of boys’ basketball overtime Tuesday night between Oxford Hills and Lewiston. And even though it was one-against-three, the Vikings’ strength, which answers to the name Andrew Fleming, came out on […]