Tourney Time
Basketball players young and old gather to shoot hoops during Bangor Auditorium fundraiser
Aging basketball players from around the state rubbed elbows with current student athletes after ponying up a few dollars to help support the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday at the Bangor Auditorium. Some showed up just to look at the pictures and read the names, recalling the past ...
Bangor Auditorium tourney trivia
BANGOR, Maine — For any Bangor Auditorium tournament trivia buffs, here are a few noteworthy events from Saturday’s high school basketball state championship swan song for the aging edifice set to be replaced this year by the Cross Insurance Center. Trevor Lyford of Penquis Valley of Milo had both the ...
Presque Isle’s Guerrette, Waynflete’s Veroneau lead finalists for Miss Maine Basketball
on March 04, 2013, at 1:25 p.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — Presque Isle’s Chandler Guerrette and Waynflete of Portland’s Martha Veroneau guided their teams to high school state basketball titles over the weekend and achieved another honor Monday when they were named as finalists for the Miss Maine Basketball award. Joining Guerrette and Veroneau as finalists for Miss ...
Auditorium closes its doors as the ‘greatest environment for high school sports in the state of Maine’
BANGOR, Maine — Their bus was waiting to take them back to a state championship celebration in Milo, but Trevor Lyford and Jason Mills couldn’t help themselves. Instead of exiting one of the Bangor Auditorium’s back doors late Saturday night, the star forward from Penquis Valley High School and the ...
Last gold ball awarded at doomed auditorium
The last high school basketball tournament game is played at the Bangor Auditorium on Saturday.
Isaiah Bess, Trevor Lyford lead Penquis past Boothbay for boys ‘C’ basketball crown
BANGOR, Maine — Basketball fundamentals often are lost amid the modern version of the sport that features offense dictated by the 3-point arc and steadily declining shooting percentages. Long-range shooting did get the Penquis Valley boys basketball team off to a fast start Saturday night, but it was the Patriots’ ...
Martha Veroneau leads Waynflete to C girls basketball title over Calais
BANGOR, Maine — Waynflete of Portland was down a dozen points to Calais at halftime of the Class C girls basketball state championship game Saturday night, but Flyers coach Brian Salway did not let them think the game was over. “I just told them they were getting beaten in every ...
Hampden beats South Portland in Class A boys championship game
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Hampden Academy boys entered Saturday’s Class A state championship game determined not to have their state-championship dreams derailed for the second straight year. There would be no such letdown for the Broncos this year, as Zach Gilpin poured in a game-high 23 points and coach Russ ...
Falmouth rolls past Medomak Valley in ‘B’ state final
PORTLAND, Maine — The Medomak Valley Panthers found out Friday night what the Western Maine Class B world already knew — that Falmouth High School has a very good boys basketball team. Sophomore forward Jack Simonds scored 21 points as the Yachtsmen led from start-to-finish in defeating the Eastern Maine ...
Guerrette rallies Presque Isle girls to second straight state crown
PORTLAND, Maine — Lake Region had most of the height on the floor in Friday night’s Class B girls basketball state championship game. But Presque Isle had Chandler Guerrette. Guerrette, a 5-foot-5-inch senior guard, scored 14 of her game-high 33 points in the fourth quarter as the undefeated Wildcats rallied ...
Medomak Valley alum guides boys basketball team to state ‘B’ final against Falmouth
WALDOBORO, Maine — The Medomak Valley boys basketball team ended a 33-year dry spell last Saturday when it defeated Mount Desert Island to win the Eastern Maine Class B championship. Not since 1980 — when the Panthers won the Western B crown — had the program brought home a regional ...
Player’s decision, team’s defense fuel Penquis’ title run
MILO, Maine — One of the defining moments of the Penquis Valley boys’ basketball team’s run to this year’s Eastern Maine Class C championship came long before the Patriots stepped onto the Bangor Auditorium floor to begin tournament play. It even came long before coach Tony Hamlin’s club first stepped ...
BDN names boys East All-Tournament squads, MVPs
The Eastern Maine boys basketball tournament had it all in 2013 — buzzer-beating shots, dramatic comebacks, overtime thrillers, coaching and player milestones, senior leadership and talented underclassmen. All are reflected in the annual Bangor Daily News all-tournament teams. The BDN selected the squads with input from school administrators, media representatives, ...
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Celebration gives way to preparation for Hampden boys’ basketball team
HAMPDEN, Maine — Truth be told, Hampden Academy boys’ basketball players probably still hasn’t completely come down from the miracle finish Friday night that advanced the team to the Class A state championship game for the second straight year. But there is that ultimate challenge awaiting the undefeated Broncos, this ...
TOURNEY TIME
Central Aroostook boys rebuild, hit stride late in EM Class D title quest
BANGOR, Maine — Given Central Aroostook’s tradition of excellence in the Eastern Maine Class D boys basketball ranks, the Panthers always seem to factor into the equation. As far as head coach Tim Brewer is concerned, that didn’t count for a lot when the 2012-2013 season began last November. “It ...
TOURNEY NOTEBOOK
Decrease in tourney attendance may be due to poor weather
BANGOR, Maine — The sentimentality surrounding the 2013 Eastern Maine B, C and D tournament being the swan song for high school basketball at the Bangor Auditorium before the aging edifice is replaced by the Cross Insurance Center this fall wasn’t reflected in the number of fans who turned out ...
Hyland scores 30 in South Portland’s win over Bonny Eagle in WM ‘A’ boys final
PORTLAND—Wake up the echoes. The South Portland boys’ basketball team is heading back to the state final. For the first time in two decades. Saturday evening, in a palpitating showdown of two strong teams and two of the finest players to be found anywhere in the state, No. 1 South ...
Penquis rallies past Houlton to capture EM ‘C’ boys basketball crown
BANGOR, Maine — The defensive goal of any high school basketball team during a given game often is less about specific possessions than its cumulative impact. So while the Penquis of Milo of boys basketball team had been out-defended for the majority of its Eastern Maine Class C boys final ...
Defending state champ McAuley girls hold off Cheverus; Bangor up next in ‘A’ state final
PORTLAND — The matchup lived up to expectations and then some. In the Western Class A girls’ basketball final between top-ranked, undefeated and two-time defending Class A state champion McAuley and surging No. 3 seed Cheverus, the Lions never trailed, but didn’t lock up their third straight regional title until ...
Undefeated Calais holds off Orono for Eastern Maine ‘C’ girls title
BANGOR, Maine — The Calais Blue Devils put their pressing defense and running offense into high gear Saturday night and gained an Eastern Maine Class C girls basketball regional title in the process. Sophomore guard Maddy McVicar scored 15 points and senior guard Meagan Cavanaugh posted 14 as the top-seeded ...
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