Gardiner Almost Pulls It Off

Last night's Game of the Day was...not close, but still eventful.

Mattanawcook's Addison Cyr entered the game only 4 points shy of 1,000 on her career. Eastern Maine Sports was there.

She's the second Mattanawcook player to reach 1K and the Lynx won 57-29. I told you it wasn't close.

After the game, she spoke to Eastern Maine Sports.

Let's go to Gardiner for a rivalry showdown between Gardiner and Cony.

Cony led by as many as 12 before Gardiner rallied in a 32-23 third quarter. For context, last night 11 teams didn't score 32 points in the entire game.

With only seconds left on the clock and the score knotted at 70, Cony's Parker Morin was fouled trying to convert a lob on an inbounds pass (the call was...yeah). Morin hit one of two free throws to give Cony the lead (he finished with 26), Gardiner grabbed the rebound and called a quick timeout, setting up this:

That's Trace Moody with the nearly heroic shot.

I thought it was going in as I watched Munzing Media feed.

You have to go down the list a tiny bit to find the video (it won't embed and obviously I'm not going to grab Munzing's video without permission) and the final 5 seconds start at the 2 hour mark

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Mike Mandell has a great writeup on the game that's certainly worth a read (as usual).

Cony boys basketball holds off Gardiner to continue hot streak

Tigers rally from 12 down, but Rams claim 71-70 win in rivalry clash.

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The win puts Cony into the 4 seed in A North.

As for the Tourney Odds, Gardiner is now very likely the 7 seed and Cony is probably going to be in the 4/5 game.

Tourney Odds are updated.

Elsewhere

Wells' Maren Maxon went off for 33 & 9 in a win over Poland...Leavitt overcame a scoreless second quarter (after scoring 20 in the first) and beat Erskine. Colin Schlobohm led the way with 21...Damon Martin had 20 to lead Poland to a win against Wells...Temple got 20 from Gabe Young and 12 & 15 from Peyton Reckards to beat Forest Hills for the first time in???...Fisher Tewksbury's 21 led Valley to a win over Buckfield...JJ Carlo scored 22 as Waynflete kept NYA winless...Kelsie Dunn had 17 as Erskine moved to 12-2...Madison's Raegan Cowan battled OOB to a 21-21 tie, but her teammates proved to be the difference in a lopsided win. THEN (before?) Madison beat Lisbon behind 13 points from Emma Anton and Jaelyn Lenko. It seems like they played a double-header. Or maybe not...Kaitlyn Frost's 18 led Monmouth to a win at Dirigo...Mountain Valley's Madison Dow's 17 out-did Alice Ferran's 13 & 20 in a win over Maranacook...Valley's Madeline Hill out-scored Buckfield 19-16 and added 9 steals in a blowout at home.

Lewiston HS standout Maddie Foster scored her 1,oooth point Tuesday night as Wentworth traveled to UNE

I missed this buzzer-beater yesterday from Falmouth's Brady Coyne.

I'm trying to imagine the Sliding Doors where JJ Redick is on the Celtics' coaching staff.

This Jokic stat line is like if in one of these blowouts people complain about on Facebook the coach actually left his starters in. And even for that, it's ridiculous.

This is simple.

The high-flying Caribou Vikings, owners of the most prolific scoring offense in the state, have one blemish on the season, a 65-52 loss at Ellsworth on December 20th. And guess who's in town?

Caribou's offense is cooking. They just scored 105 on Houlton, which moved them into first place in the state in scoring differential, passing a team they might see in March. They're also 13-1 Against the Spread, but no one tell them that, because I'm sure it's proof the Model is biased against them (the same Model that was very early on them as title contenders for that historic title win a couple of years ago, but I digress).

Ellsworth is no one-hit wonder. They've got the win over Caribou, sure, but they're also second in the state in %Perfect, the stat that measures dominance relative to your schedule.

The Tourney Odds are even simpler.

Basically, Ellsworth needs this to get the 1 seed. Orono is probably the 3. And for a region that's usually a Battle Royale from 1-7+, this is very settled (see also: B South).

Could this be a Regional Final preview? Potentially. I'm not convinced B North is suddenly chalk.

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