That is particularly true if you are a 13-year-old eighth-grader from a small school in Aroostook County who happens to be good enough to start for her high school team.
The Southern Aroostook High School Warriors from Dyer Brook captured their second straight Class D schoolgirl basketball championship with an impressive 55-30 victory over Greenville at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor Saturday afternoon.
Kenzie Worcester is unassuming and humble. By her own admission, she is a County girl and a homebody.
Stearns High School freshman guard Alisyn Alley scored 23 points and recorded eight assists and five steals to lead No. 9 Stearns of Millinocket to a 70-45 upset win over top seed Central Aroostook of Mars Hill in their Class C schoolgirl quarterfinal at the Cross Insurance Center Tuesday afternoon.
Lily Gray scored 15 points and Taylor Hardy had 14, including 12 in the third quarter, to lead second seed Deer Isle-Stonington to a 57-28 victory over No. 7 Ashland in their Class D North semifinal at the Cross Insurance Center Monday morning.
Emily Curtis scored 16 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and made five steals to lead third-seeded Woodland to a 59-33 victory over sixth seed Katahdin in a Class D North quarterfinal at the Cross Insurance Center Monday morning.
The same four entities will be showing the state’s boys and girls high school basketball tournament games this season either online or on TV, according to Dick Durost, the executive director of the Maine Principals’ Association.
Fort Kent native Austin Theriault worked long and hard last year to find a competitive race car driving situation that was the right fit, but to no avail.
In 2016, the Southern Aroostook Community School girls basketball team fielded what is believed to be the youngest team in the history of the regional tournament.
Stock car driver Austin Theriault has formed a partnership with Crazy Horse Racing, a company based in South Paris that builds Super Late Model and Late Model race cars.
