Windham Stuns Scarborough

Let's start with the Game of the Day, shall we?

In yesterday's preview, I said that Scarborough would probably need a couple of threes from Carter Ryan to knock off the champs and for a while, I was very wrong. Without AJ Moody, Windham struggled in the first half against Scarborough. They trailed 32-15 at the half, Tyrie James was sitting on 2 points, and things were dark.

But you aren't in a position to go for a three-peat if you can't come back and come back they did, even without Moody, who is essential to what they do.

But also essential is Tyrie James, who will very likely be a finalist for Mr. Basketball. James scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half and Windham answered a late Scarborough run with an 11-1 run of their own to pull off the comeback.

Michael Hoffer was there.

Windham digs deep, stuns Scarborough with late rally

SCARBOROUGH—You simply can’t quantify the heart of a champion. And the championship heart of Windham’s boys’ basketball team is something to behold. Tuesday evening at Alumni Gymnasium, the Eagles, the two-time reigning state champions, appeared to have little chance against host Scarborough in a midseason Class A South showdown.

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Cheverus standout Kylie Lamson entered last night's game against Gorham needing 16 points for 1,000 on her illustrious career. With inside of 2 minutes to go, Lamson got a steal and then...

She finished with 17 and Cheverus beat Gorham 48-44.

A game that wasn't Game of the Day, but jumped out at me as one worth watching was the Mt. Ararat/GNG girls game and had it been at Mt. Ararat, I probably would have gone (Tuesdays are crazy for the day job and it's hard to get to a game that isn't close to my house). Well I wish I had.

Freshman Bryn Gilmore beat the buzzer at halftime, the game went overtime, and it finished with this wild sequence at the end of overtime (video clips on NFHS don't require a subscription)

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That's Gilmore with the game winner. She finished with 22 points.

The win gives GNG some valuable Heal Points that are very clean, as York is the only other team in B South that plays Mt. Ararat. GNG is now back in the driver's seat for the 1 seed. They have a 14.1% chance of going unbeaten, which would give them the 1. At 17-1, they're 89.6% to get the 1. At 16-2, it's a coin flip.

If you're wondering, 43 teams in the state have locked up a bye.

The Pine Tree boys entered last night's game averaging 76 points a game, third best in the state, and facing a defense that's...not been stout, thus far, giving up 68.5. So this score probably shouldn't be a surprise.

Benjamin Christman drilled 7 3's, Collin Verrill scored 24 points, and Pine Tree put up a 31-point quarter to hit the century mark.

I'm sure Facebook is handling it well.

Elsewhere

The Easton boys rallied down 16 in the 4th quarter to stun Central Aroostook...Jaxson Desjardins went off for 43 points, but it wasn't enough to beat Valley, who got 28 from Fisher Tewksbury and 22 from Harry Louis...Isabelle Tice had 21 in Marshwood's win over Portland...Madison Bennett scored 24 in Mount View's win over Hall-Dale...Ernie Dore's 21 led Biddeford past Noble...Brendan Shaw had 16 in the first half of Brunswick's blowout of Oxford Hills...Owen Hurd had 20 as Lisbon erased a 12-point deficit to beat Sacopee Valley...Colin Schlobohm's 14 & 10 led Leavitt past Mount Blue...Carrabec's Ava Welch dropped 23 on Madison...Emma Witas had 32 in Dirigo's blowout of Telstar...Elizabeth Galway had 17 of Edward Little's 80 against Messo...Riley Ewing's 22 paced Kennebunk past Bonny Eagle...Morse overcame 24 points from Abby Giroux and a 10-point deficit to pull out a win over Freeport...Valley's Liana Hartwell dropped 25 on Forest Hills...Evelyn Mortimer had 19 in Winthrop's win over OOB...Ian Lawrence's 21 fueled a big first quarter for Yarmouth over Lincoln Academy...Darius Johnson had 20 in SoPo's win over TA...Luke Gendron had 6 3's en route to 25 points as Sanford stayed unbeaten...Grady Hrebren had 20 as Maranacook rolled by Mountain Valley...Grayson Bernard's 22 led Lewiston over Greely...Leavitt's Gabby Smith dropped 23 on Mount Blue...Nya Avery's 16 led York over Cape...SoPo's Annie Whitmore had 15 in a win over TA...Kennebunk got 18 from Sawyer Pow against Bonny...Brady Philbrick hit 6 3's as Dirigo cruised past Telstar...Joe Iaccarino's 15 led Cheverus past Gorham...Gavin Fanjoy had 19 as Erskine pulled away from Winslow late...Braden New led Oak Hill's second half rally over Waynflete with 17 of his game-high 22...Trot Moody dropped 23 on Winthrop...Khloe Price had 19 in Cony's win over Hermon...Portland's Lucas LeGage put 26 on Marshwood.

This is a fascinating story from the A's move to Vegas that is part awesome and part the worst sequel to Moneyball ever.

For reasons that don't exactly make a lot of sense, the A's trademark application has been rejected.

The USPTO argues “athletics” is an overarching term that is too broad to be trademarked. In trademark law, a description of what service the team provides and its geographic location is not sufficient. While the name refers to a professional team in Las Vegas, the USPTO argues there are too many other possible uses. In theory, others may need to use “Las Vegas” and athletics to describe their business.

Ok, but this has been a Major League Baseball franchise for over 100 years.

So I guess it's fair game to sell Athletics merch.

What you don't want to do is infringe on someone else's registered trademark, because that would be really stupid.

Landon Clark picked up some hardware.

COOP

The Spruce Mountain boys started this season a little slowly, as sometimes happens when multiple starters play key roles on a football team that makes a run to the state championship game, but it didn't take a fancy Model to realize that losing 2 games by a combined 5 points to two good teams on the road wasn't exactly cause for concern. Sure enough, they've won 6 straight, including a slugfest on New Year's Eve. They're sitting 3rd in the Heal Points, but project as the most likely 2 seed.

They'll host a Madison team that lost to the same 2 teams Spruce did, but at home by a combined 16. So just by losses in common, the edge has to go to Spruce. Add the football hangover, Cai Dougher's return, and the 8th best scoring defense in the state, and you've got an edge for the Phoenix.

The rest of the Model's picks for today's games are after the jump.