> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.mainebasketballrankings.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Surf's Up - URL: https://www.mainebasketballrankings.com/surfs-up/ - Published: 2026-11-09T12:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-09T12:00:03.000Z - Description: OOB washes over Boothbay and coasts into another State Game - Author: Lucas McNelly There's days you want to make the trip down to Old Orchard Beach and there's days you don't. A sunny summer day in July or August? Sure you've got to fight through the tourists and make sure you don't forget your sunscreen, but you'll have a lovely time, maybe get in a round of mini golf, some skee-ball. It's a great time. Saturday was not one of those days. In a weekend full of inclement weather, Saturday was clearly the worst day of the bunch. The beach was angry on Saturday—like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli–cold and windy and wet and raw. The sort of cold that gets in your bones. Normally I'd be suffering through a game like this on the sideline, but Ethan Snow had recruited me to do color for the WHOU broadcast, where I was dry but it wasn't exactly the best view in the world. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/2026/11/IMG_2875-1.jpeg) The combination of that window and Boothbay's white-on-white numbers in the rain made it a little tricky, but we made it work. After OOB turned the ball over on downs, Boothbay promptly scored on a Miles Murray strike to Thomas Hennessy to take a 8-0 lead and after the Stearns loss on Friday, you'd be expected to wonder if maybe things were about to get nuts in 8-Man Small School. But then OOB scored 46 straight points and that was the end of that. Brayden Koelker ran for 4 touchdowns. OOB won their 5th straight Regional Title. --- Which brings us to the end of Week 10 and the final Overreactions podcast of the season. This week, Drew Bonifant of Varsity Maine makes his debut on the podcast. We had to talk about the big 3 upsets of the week, of course. But we also take a look at Bonny Eagle vs TA Round 2, Anderson Noyes' big day, the Class C semifinals, the potentially high-scoring Yarmouth/Old Town game (first team to 100 wins?), my working theory that B South going chalk is the most chaotic move of them all, and a bunch more. Plus, we get into the eternal Heal Points question and if Foxcroft could beat Cheverus in field hockey or the Stags are essentially the killer in a horror movie that you just can't kill. [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5i0QrhW90&t=2486s&ref=mainebasketballrankings.com) --- Gold Balls were handed out in Soccer and Field Hockey on Saturday. The Camden girls beat Scarborough in a double overtime thriller. The Penobscot Valley girls won their fourth title in a row. It's been a really impressive run for the Howler women across multiple sports the last couple of years. And the Hall-Dale boys beat Fort Kent 1-0\. Varsity Maine has a bunch of interviews from the winners. And with that, we have final Power Rankings for soccer and field hockey. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/2026/11/Screenshot-2026-11-09-at-12.30.04---AM.png) [Power Rankings](https://www.mainebasketballrankings.com/rankings/) --- If you haven't voted yet in the preseason poll, there's still time to do that before we record the preseason poll podcasts. You know what they say, if you don't vote, you don't get to complain about the results. There have been over 700 region ballots cast so far. [Basketball Pre-Season PollNever too early![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/icon/maine-basketball-rankings-logo-small-20fe377f-11b1-4435-b90b-b3522e9cf002.png)Maine Basketball RankingsLucas McNelly![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/thumbnail/preseason-polls-1-487cd443-3d9d-4de9-9394-731bb5c6c9e8.jpg)](https://www.mainebasketballrankings.com/basketball-pre-season-poll/) --- We've got a couple of preseason tourney schedules so far, perfect if you've had enough of your relatives pontificating about the election on Thanksgiving. First up, the Westbrook Turkey Tip Off. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/2026/11/image-1.png) And, as always, the SoPo Tip Off Tourney, that this year will feature...shot clocks!!! ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/2026/11/image-2.png) Shot clocks! ![](https://static.klipy.com/ii/d6b0ce929193df3c242ac34b5654d2ce/35/e0/moG6qhez.gif) I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the kids will adapt to the shot clocks almost instantly. The adults...might take a little longer. --- On the podcast, Drew mentioned a story he'd written about the growth of field hockey youth programs around the state. > Other pockets of the state have seen a boost. Page’s program at Yarmouth, which had fewer than 20 players when she took over in 2023, was up to 52 this year. Burgess LePage, who coaches Greely of Cumberland, had 85 players at her September play day, compared with 61 last year. Dirigo of Dixfield and Mountain Valley of Rumford, which formerly combined for a team, had enough players to field their own teams this year. As always with Drew, it's a nice, thorough piece of writing. [Read on Varsity Maine](https://www.centralmaine.com/2026/11/07/youth-field-hockey-is-growing-high-school-coaches-hope-it-will-save-the-sport/?ref=mainebasketballrankings.com) --- Weekends are always slow in crowdfunding, but we made some progress. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6f/1b/6f1b07c4-89c2-426d-a60a-ca70e47e4639/content/images/2026/11/Screenshot-2026-11-09-at-1.33.22---AM-1.png) Hopefully we can get some real traction over the next couple of days. Join the fun! [Back on Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lmcnelly/maine-noir-finishing-funds?ref=4ke8ap) --- Bird on the court? > "We got birds on the court! 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