Jack Guerrette of Wisdom scoreed his 1000th during a 74-38 victory over Van Buren last night.

He becomes the third male and the sixth overall player from Wisdom to reach 1000 points.

Tracy Guerrette 1998   1548 points

Karen Nadeau     1978  1503 points

Chad Gervais   2001      1111 points

Karen Hebert     1988    1050 points

Nathon Boynton 2014   1045 points

Jack Guerrette 2018

At Caribou, the Vikings led midway through the fourth quarter but couldn’t hold on as the Shiretowners remained undefeated.
Kolleen Bouchard poured in 27 points to lead 14-0 Houlton, with Tegan Ewings scoring 11 and Kristin Graham pitching in with eight points.
For 8-8 Caribou, Searra Herbert tallied 18 points, Gabrielle Marquis scored 14 and Paige Espling added eight.
Houlton: Ewings 5-1-11, Graham 2-2-8, Bouchard 11-2-27, Soloman, Brown, Worthley 2-0-6, Flewelling 1-0-3.
Caribou: Susi, Skidgel 2-0-6, Marquis 6-1-14, Espling 3-2-8, Herbert 7-1-18, Labreck 1-0-2.
Houlton 15 30 40 55
Caribou 18 25 38 48
3-pt. goals: Graham 2, Bouchard 3, Worthley 2, Flewelling; Skidgel 2, Marquis, Herbert 3

CONGRATULATIONS to Fort Kent Senior Cassidy Lovely on scoring her 1000th point last night.

She joins these girls from Fort Kent as 1000 point scorers

Stephanie Caron 1985

We have just two games on tap for you Monday night. The Houlton girls will travel to take on Southern Aroostook and the Central Aroostook Boys travel to Easton. Both games tip off at 7 PM

NORTHERN MAINE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 2018

 Classes B-C-D Cross Center, Bangor Jerry Goss – Director Allen Snell – Director

Class B Quarterfinals – Friday, February 16

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

B 1 5:00 PM 1 3 vs 6 Girls

B 2 6:30 PM 1 2 vs 7 Girls

B 1 8:00 PM 1 3 vs 6 Boys

Class B & D Quarterfinals – Saturday, February 17

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

B 2 9:05 AM 2 2 vs 7 Boys

B 3 10:35 AM 2 4 vs 5 Girls

B 3 1:35 AM 3 4 vs 5 Boys

B 4 3:05 PM 3 1 vs 8 Girls

B 4 4:35 PM 3 1 vs 8 Boys

D 1 7:35 PM 4 3 vs 6 Girls

D 2 9:05 PM 4 2 vs 7 Girls

Class D Quarterfinals – Monday, February 19

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

D 1 9:30 AM 5 3 vs 6 Boys

D 2 11:05 AM 5 2 vs 7 Boys

D 3 2:05 PM 6 4 vs 5 Girls

D 4 3:35 PM 6 1 vs 8 Girls

D 3 7:05 PM 7 4 vs 5 Boys

D 4 8:35 PM 7 1 vs 8 Boys

Class C Quarterfinals – Tuesday, February 20

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

C 1 9:30 AM 8 3 vs 6 Girls

C 2 11:05 AM 8 2 vs 7 Girls

C 1 2:05 PM 9 4 vs 5 Boys

C 2 3:35 PM 9 1 vs 8 Boys

C 3 7:05 PM 10 4 vs 5 Girls

C 4 8:35 PM 10 1 vs 8 Girls

Class C Quarterfinals, Class B Semifinals – Wednesday, February 21

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

C 3 9:35 AM 11 3 vs 6 Boys

C 4 11:05 AM 11 2 vs 7 Boys

B 5 2:05 PM 12 W1 vs W2 Girls

B 6 3:35 PM 12 W3 vs W4 Girls

B 5 7:05 PM 13 W1 vs W2 Boys

B 6 8:35 PM 13 W3 vs W4 Boys

Class D Semifinals – Thursday, February 22

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

D 5 2:05 PM 14 W1 vs W2 Girls

D 6 3:35 PM 14 W3 vs W4 Girls

D 5 7:05 PM 15 W1 vs W2 Boys

D 6 8:35 PM 15 W3 vs W4 Boys

Class C Semifinals – Friday, February 23

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

C 5 2:05 PM 16 W1 vs W2 Girls

C 6 3:35 PM 16 W3 vs W4 Girls

C 5 7:05 PM 17 W3 vs W4 Boys

C 6 8:35 PM 17 W1 vs W2 Boys

Championship Saturday – Saturday, February 24

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

D 7 9:05 AM 18 W5 vs W6 Girls

D 7 15 minutes after awards 18 W5 vs W6 Boys

B 7 2:05 PM 19 W5 vs W6 Girls

B 7 15 minutes after awards 19 W5 vs W6 Boys

C 7 7:05 PM 20 W5 vs W6 Girls

C 7 15 minutes after awards 20 W5 vs W6 Boys

Class B State Finals – Friday, March 2

Class Game Time Session SEED Gender

B 8 7:05 PM N vs S Girls

B 8 15 minutes after awards N vs S Boys

 

STATE CLASS D CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE AUGUSTA CIVIC CENTER SAT-3/3/18

1:05PM D GIRLS

2:45PM D BOYS

SAT-3/3/18

7:05PM C GIRLS

8:45PM C BOYS

Saturday Scores

Boys games:

Caribou 70-54 Orono
Katahdin 56-38 Van Buren
Houlton 72-30 SACHS
Easton 48-34 Wisdom
Woodland 45-29 Madawaska

Girls

Houlton picked up a 71- 47 win over Mattanawcook Academy to improve to 10-0   Kolleen Bouchard scored 32 points, grabbed 8 rebounds, had 7 assists and 6 blocked shots to power the Shiretowners. Teagan Ewings also contributed 17 points for the Shiretowners.

East Grand (1-8) picked up their first win by defeating Wisdom  (0-10) 43-29 Haleigh Shay paced East Grand (1-8) with 17 points, Mallory Gilman added 14 and Jordy Cowyer put in 10

Fort Kent defeated Ashland 44-26  , Cassidy Lovley’s 14 points sparked the Warriors to victory.
Libby LaPointe scored 12 points and Desirae Hafford netted 11 for Fort Kent (9-4).
Jamie Poulin led Ashland (7-6) with 13 points.
Ashland: Poulin 6-1-13, Doughty 2-0-5, Cote 2-0-4, Stolze 1-0-2, Chasse 1-0-2, Dotson, Cunningham, Driscoll, Kenney, Deabay
Fort Kent: Lovley 6-1-14, LaPointe 5-1-12, Hafford 4-0-11, Pelletier 2-0-5, O’Leary 1-0-2, Daigle, Saucier
Ashland 12 16 20 26
Fort Kent 6 11 32 44
3-pt. goals: Doughty; Hafford 3, Lovley, LaPointe, Pelletier

 

Boys

At Fort Kent, Jacob Daigle tallied 15 points as the Warriors earned their ninth win in 12 games.
Jace Rocheleau scored 13 points and Camden Jandreau netted 10 while Caleb Delistle and Lance Ouellette added nine points each.
For 3-10 Ashland, Bailey Clark led the way with 10 points and Dylan Haley scored eight.
Ashland: Clark 5-0-10, Haley 4-0-8, Wortman 2-1-5, Celeste 1-0-2, Bellanceau 1-0-2, Doughty, Berry, Routhier, Page, Condon, Thompson, Albert
Fort Kent: Daigle 7-1-15, Rocheleau 5-0-13, C. Jandreau 5-0-10, Delisle 4-1-9, Ouellette 4-1-9, Soucy 2-0-4, Plourde 2-0-4, Roy 1-0-3, J. Jandreau 1-0-2, Paradis 1-0-2, Chasse
Ashland 2 7 19 27
Fort Kent 30 47 64 71
3-pt. goals: Rocheleau 3, Roy

Wisdom (3-7) defeated (2-6) East Grand 51-39

Fort Fairfield (10-2) moved into the top spot in Class C with a win over Central Aroostook  65-55. The Panthers sit in third place with a 10-3 record

Boys:

Presque Isle 71 – 51 Houlton
Fort Kent 83-27 Madawaska
Hodgdon 65-43 Washburn
GHCA 71 – 58 SACHS
Shead 48 –  36 East Grand

Girls:
Hodgdon 32-20 Washburn
SACHS 69-30 Easton
CAHS 44-39 Fort Fairfield
Madawaska 52-35 Fort Kent
Shead 58-47 East Grand

THURSDAY SCHEDULE:
BOYS GAMES:

Presque Isle @ Houlton 7 PM-100.1 FM & whoufm.com; The Rock
Hodgdon @ Washburn 7 PM
GHCA @ SACHS 4 PM
East Grand @ Shead 5 PM
Fort Kent @ Madawaska 7 PM – AOL

Girls:

• Houlton moves to 9-0 as they beat Presque Isle 63-54. The ‘Cats drop to 7-3 Kolleen Bouchard had 30 to pace the Shires.
• Katahdin improved to 7-4 with a 49-28 win at Wisdom. The Pioneers fall to 0-9

Boys:

• Fort Kent picked up a big Road win at mars Hill 68-59. The win jumped the 7-3 Warriors to fourth place. The Panthers had their ten game winning streak stopped. The still sit in second place with a 10-2 record. Caleb Delisle’s 18 points led the Warriors while Jace Rocheleau tossed in 17 points for Fort Kent.  Brayden Bradbury paced Central Aroostook with a game-high 22 points.
• Katahdin jumped to third place in Class D with a 60-38 win over Wisdom. The Cougars now stand at 8-2, while the Pioneers dropped to 2-7

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — Joseph Cyr is the Maine winner of the National Sports Media Association Sportswriter of the Year award.

Cyr, who serves as a news and sports reporter for the Houlton Pioneer Times, received the nod following a vote of the state’s members of the NSMA during the month of December 2017. He was notified two weeks ago and the award was made public Tuesday, Jan. 16.

“I am truly honored to received this prestigious award from the National Sports Media Association,” said Cyr, a first-time winner. “It is very humbling to be recognized in this manner. Covering local sports is a privilege that I do not take lightly.

“Over the past 25 years in the business, I have had a chance to work with some pretty amazing sports writers. I have always tried to learn from them and pass along that knowledge to those just starting out,” he added.

Cyr, a Houlton native, began his newspaper career at The Star-Herald in Presque Isle. After four years there, he worked for Courier Publications in Rockland for nearly 11 years and then for VillageNet Media, also based in Rockland, for another year. He then returned to Aroostook County and has been back with the Houlton Pioneer Times since 2009.

“Joe is a class act and is very deserving. He is very respectful and professional, and a great communicator,” said Shawn Graham, coach of the Houlton girls basketball team. “He puts a tremendous amount of time into our local sports teams as he is around the facilities days, nights and weekends.”

Cyr and the other state sportswriter and sportscaster winners, along with national winners and Hall of Fame inductees, will be honored during the 59th annual NSMA Awards Weekend, to be held June 23-25, 2018, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Ernie Clark of the Bangor Daily News was the other Maine sportswriter who was a finalist for the award. Rich Kimball of Black Bear Sports Properties/Learfield in Orono won the state’s sportscaster honor. Rene Cloukey of WAGM-TV in Presque Isle was the other finalist.

“What makes this so special is that Joe is a general assignment reporter who covers everything from school board and council meetings to accidents and fires for Houlton and the surrounding communities,” said Senior Editor Rick Levasseur of Northeast Publishing, which produces the Houlton Pioneer Times. “Then he goes out of his way to photograph and write about sporting events, even when he has to do it on his own time because, he says, ‘That’s what our readers care about.’ Joe definitely deserves this honor.”

Northeast Publishing General Manager Andrew Birden said, “Joe has an astonishing drive to tell the story of the communities he serves in compelling style. When it comes to sports especially, Joe leads the way for journalists across the state.

“He makes capturing amazing images and telling the essence of sports stories look easy, when those of us with experience in the same field know that sports coverage is one of the most challenging branches of journalism,” Birden added.

Cyr and his wife, Charity, have two daughters — Isabel, 14, and Olivia, 11.

Sportscasters voted into the NSMA Hall of Fame during the latest balloting are Woody Durham of University of North Carolina Radio and Bryant Gumbel, who has worked for NBC, CBS, PBS and currently HBO. Sportswriters voted to the shrine are Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post and Dick Weiss of Blue Star Media, the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News.

The National Sportscaster of the Year is Kevin Harlan of CBS, Turner Sports and Westwood One, while Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Yahoo Sports claimed National Sportswriter of the Year honors.

 

All State Players Emily Wheaton and Kolleen Bouchard will be in action tonight against each other.

Wednesday Games in the County:

Girls
Houlton at Presque Isle – This is the game to watch tonight as undefeated Houlton (8-0) travels to Presque Isle to take on the 7-2 Wildcats.
Katahdin at Wisdom

Happy Birthday to Southern Aroostook Girls Coach Cliff Urquhart. If you don’t see him in a gym, there is a good chance you might catch him on the ice!

Houlton Girls at Presque Isle Wed. Night

 

Boys Games:

• GHCA 84-40 over Ashland
• Fort Fairfield 79-23 Washburn

Girls Games:

• Central Aroostook 72-36 over Van Buren
• Katahdin 30-22 over Easton