Friday the Thirteenth
Playoff Games on Friday the Thirteenth. What could go wrong?
This will be a shorter newsletter.
While we all prep for the 8-Man State Games on Saturday (I'll be doing color on the WHOU broadcast with Ethan Snow) and I try to get this film crowdfunded and basketball schedules continue to trickle in Jay Baines and I recorded the podcasts for the preseason polls.
Up first is the girls. You know the drill, we went region-by-region and tried to put some meaning behind the results. Plus we went off on tangents, as we do, including a preview of the 8-Man Gold Ball games.
You can also in the video see the breakdown of the voting, like so:
I'll probably put these images on Facebook sometime tomorrow.
In the meantime, check out the podcast!
Cheverus' Addison DeRoche signed on the dotted line to play for Florida State.
Michael Hoffer
After a very, very long delay (I guess the iPhone Duo jammed up the queue), the scorekeeping app is available in the App Store and the early reviews are glowing.
What it does
The app scores 7 different sports: basketball, football, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey. You can score a game at any level, anything from 3rd grade basketball to a Red Sox game. If you upgrade you can save your teams and stats and whatnot. Scoring a Maine varsity high school game is always free.
The app pulls the daily schedule and teams from the website. So if you want to score Cony/Fryeburg, for example, it'll automatically have that game and rosters loaded (assuming rosters have been loaded on the site).
As you score a game, it will automatically update the scoreboard with the time, score, and last action.
After the game, it'll generate a Game Report you can send to the media and parents or whoever and update the player stats on the website, like so for Yarmouth.
Anyway, check it out. The app is free to score any Maine high school varsity game.
And is currently available for iOS. Android will come later.
Maine Basketball Rankings, LLC
We've made progress on the Kickstarter campaign for my film. We're up to 42%, a big jump from 14% on Monday. Part of that came from a "Culture grant" from Kickstarter themselves, which was a nice shot in the arm, but we also picked up roughly 20 new backers.
Our lead actress, Jamie Lyn Bagley, recorded a video for the campaign.
We need to average about $400/day the rest of the way to hit the goal and the $$/backer should come down over the next two weeks. Back of the envelope math, we likely need ~125 more backers.
Get on board!
We're gonna get there. It's going to take some doing, but we'll get there.
You've heard of the home fans getting a technical in a basketball game, but this is a new one.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) 2026-11-11T02:52:34.974Z
[George Costanza voice] Was that wrong?
Bad news.
Mack DeGeurin
If there's one thing we've learned in the 2026 football playoffs, it's that a regular season result isn't all the predictive of the playoff rematch.
On October 16th, Hermon lost 28-14 to Greely in Cumberland, despite 4 Greely turnovers. The Rangers out-gained Hermon 356-149 in that one and the two Hawks scores came on short fields after a turnover.
Last week we saw a couple of teams avenge regular season losses and in convincing ways, so it's not unreasonable at all that Kyle Gallant & Co. can figure out a way to fix what went wrong in the first matchup. It likely requires solving Luke Piper.
If they can do that, they'll have a shot at a Gold Ball next week. If not, Greely will look to make it a 3-peat.
The rest of the Model's picks for today's games are after the jump.