CMCC’s Brooke Reynolds is fouled by NHTI’s Camryn Burr during the first half of Thursday night’s women’s basketball game in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) AUBURN — NHTI, Concord’s Community College, stayed with Central Maine Community College for 27 minutes Thursday night. Unfortunately for the Lynx, women’s college basketball games last 40 minutes. The Mustangs converted on […]
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Women's Basketball: CMCC cuts down CCRI, 75-66
WARWICK, R.I. — Brooke Reynolds recorded a triple-double, complete with a team-high 16 points, 11 rebounds and a whopping 10 steals, freshmen Alex Bessey and Kristen Huntress each added 15 points, and Central Maine Community College edged Community College of Rhode Island, 75-66, on Sunday. Reynolds scored half of her points from the free-throw line, […]
Women’s basketball: CMCC rallies, rocks UMaine-Augusta
UMaine-Augusta’s Emily Billings, middle, grabs the ball before it goes out of bounds between Central Maine Community College’s Kristina Blais, left, and Brooke Reynolds during their game in Augusta on Wednesday. (Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal) AUGUSTA — Eventually, the Mustangs out-ran the Moose. Defending national champion Central Maine Community College got pushed by Yankee Small College […]
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, […]
Vachon appointed UMaine women’s basketball coach for 2017-2018; Barron remains in treatment
Amy Vachon speaks at a press conference Wednesday after the University of Maine announced she will serve as interim head coach for UMaine women’s basketball’s 2017-2018 season as head coach Richard Barron continues to battle a debilitating illness. ORONO — With head coach Richard Barron continuing to battle a debilitating illness, Amy Vachon, who led […]
College basketball: CMCC women's coach Andrew Morong finding quick success
Head coach Andrew Morong runs practice at Central Maine Community College in Auburn in 2013. AUBURN — Andrew Morong thought he might be a sports agent. Or maybe a team manager. After graduating from Morse High School in 2004, Morong earned a psychology degree from the University of Maine, but sports was always in his […]
Women's basketball: Albany overcomes slow start to beat UMaine for sixth straight America East title
Albany’s Jessica Fequiere, left, shoots while covered by Maine’s Anita Kelava during the America East Conference women’s basketball championship Friday, March 10, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. ALBANY, N.Y. — The University of Maine women’s basketball team got off to a terrific start in Friday’s America East championship game at the University of Albany’s SEFCU Arena, […]
Interim coach Amy Vachon guides UMaine women’s basketball team to title game
ORONO — Amy Vachon didn’t want to make her collegiate head coaching debut under the circumstances she did. On Jan. 6, head coach Richard Barron announced he was taking an indefinite medical leave of absence with an undisclosed illness. Two months later, he has not returned. That thrust associate head coach Vachon into the director’s […]
College basketball: UMaine women knock off New Hampshire to gain berth in America East final
PORTLAND — The University of Maine women’s basketball team entered the America East tourney having played just one regular season game during a two-week span. That meant associate head coach Amy Vachon finally had time to implement a 2-3 matchup zone defense. And it worked to perfection Sunday as the fourth-seeded Black Bears limited AE […]
Central Maine Community College earns YSCC title, berth in national tourney
Brooke Reynolds is among a handful of former top Maine basketball high school players plying their trade at Central Maine Community College these days, and coach Andrew Morong is happy to have them all. “The talent level in Maine High School basketball is high, if you do your homework,” Morong said. “You’re always looking for […]