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Mountain Valley s Rylee Sevigny tries to drive to the basketball past Dirigo s Grace Robbins, right, Alexa Perreault (2) and Page Lueders, left, during the first half of Monday night s game in Rumford. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
RUMFORD On a night when Mountain Valley’s 1,000-point scorer Rylee Sevigny and fellow senior Courtney Therrien were honored, a trio of juniors played starring roles for the Falcons in a rivalry win over Dirigo on Monday.
Emily Richard, Autumn Freeman and Alana Young each took turns standing out in the Mountain Valley girls basketball team’s 35-29 victory at Puiia Gymnasium.
“The three junior starters are some of the most genuine, wonderful people I’ve ever met in my entire life, and I couldn’t be more proud of all three of them than I am right now,” Mountain Valley coach Craig Milledge said. “A rivalry game, tough game, great opposing team lots of talent over there, they’re well-coached and our three juniors, when there was
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Mt. Blue’s Kiely Reynolds (3) guards Dirigo’s Jayce Brophy (3) as Dirigo’s Alyvia Perreault (24) calls for the ball in a basketball game in Dixfield on Saturday night.
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DIXFIELD Coaches Zac Conlogue and Reggie Weston found it refreshing that their teams from two different classes left it all out on the basketball court on Saturday night.
It was a run-and-gun affair for Class A Mt. Blue and Class C Dirigo, with Mt. Blue grabbing a convincing 54-31 victory. It was Mt. Blue’s first win of the season.
“I thought it was kind of cool,” Mt. Blue’s Conlogue said. “We typically don’t play teams like this and it was nice to see a different opponent. It was a very competitive game. Hats off to Dirigo. They worked very hard.”
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DIXFIELD Dirigo’s perimeter shooting was on and its bothersome defense restrained Rangeley’s capable offense for most of Friday night at DeFoe Gymnasium.
The Cougars also wowed their fans over live-streaming, tossing in seven 3-pointers to keep their distance from the persistent Lakers for a convincing 54-36 girls basketball victory.
Rangeley’s Emily Eastlack shoots the ball past Dirigo’s Jayce Brophy during Friday night’s game in Dixfield.
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“They have a good team there, so we had to make sure to step up pressure on the 1-2-2 zone press,” Dirigo coach Reggie Weston said. “(The players) kept their composure … they looked for the passes. They were getting a lot of open looks because of passing and they would kick it back to the girl that was open.
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Rangeley s Emily Eastlack shoots the ball past Dirigo s Jayce Brophy during Friday night’s game in Dixfield. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
DIXFIELD Dirigo’s perimeter shooting was on and its bothersome defense restrained Rangeley’s capable offense for most of Friday night at DeFoe Gymnasium.
The Cougars also wowed their fans over live-streaming, tossing in seven 3-pointers to keep their distance from the persistent Lakers for a convincing 54-36 girls basketball victory.
“They have a good team there, so we had to make sure to step up pressure on the 1-2-2 zone press,” Dirigo coach Reggie Weston said. “(The players) kept their composure … they looked for the passes. They were getting a lot of open looks because of passing and they would kick it back to the girl that was open.