We all hoped the COVID-19 pandemic – which dominated the news for the second straight year – would end sometime in 2021; however, the end-of-the-year numbers for cases, hospitalizations and deaths have increased to record levels since March 2020.
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This is the first February vacation week that I have taken since as least 1986, which is the year before I started at the Boothbay Register. I may have taken the traditional winter school vacation week off in 1987 but I doubt it. I was bartending at Everybody s Restaurant and I needed to work to support my wife, Melodee, and daughter, Sara, who was born in 1984. Son Tim came along in 1988.
My February vacation weeks have been nonexistent because I have been covering the schoolboy and schoolgirl basketball tournaments since 1988. As you may have noticed, I love basketball and it has been a week I look forward to every year. Sadly, this year there is no Maine Principals Association tournament due to COVID-19.
Senior captain scores 20 in Lady Seahawks’ loss to Medomak Valley
BILL PEARSON Mon, 02/15/2021 - 9:30pm
Boothbay Region senior Glory Blethen launches a 3-pointer Feb. 15 against Medomak Valley. The basket turned into her 1,000th career point. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Another Lady Seahawk has soared in the Boothbay Region High School basketball scoring record books. Senior Glory Blethen scored her 1,000th career point on Feb. 15 on a 21-foot 3-pointer midway into the third quarter in her team’s 42-33 loss to Medomak Valley. Blethen scored 20 points and became the fifth Lady Seahawk and ninth Boothbay Region basketball player to score 1,000 points. Trailing 28-22, guard Kylie Brown found Blethen open her only successful 3-point shot of the game. “I thought it was great Kylie had an assist on it,” Blethen said. “I’m super excited and thankful to these girls (Brown and Jaelyn Crocker) because I wouldn’t been able to do it without them.”
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Boothbay Region point guard Kylie Brown looks for an open teammate Feb. 15 during the team’s 42-33 loss in high school girls’ action. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Boothbay forward Jaelyn Crocker scored 11 points against Medomak Valley Monday night and sparked a second half rally which fell short. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
It was the Lady Seahawks’ fifth loss in seven games, but Coach Brian Blethen is seeing steady improvement in his young squad. On Jan. 26, Medomak Valley beat Boothbay Region in schoolgirl basketball, 73-41, in Waldoboro. In the rematch, Medomak was on the verge of another lopsided victory leading, 22-11, midway through the third quarter before the Boothbay offense found its groove. Senior Glory Blethen scored eight of her 20 points in the first quarter, but the Lady Seahawks struggled to score in the second quarter until midway through the third. Blethen connected on a long 3-pointer bringing the Lady
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