Well, the 2014 high school basketball schedule has run its course, and it's Tournament Time. In Class A (largest enrollment schools) Boys, it's the top 3 and then all the rest. I have to chuckle. Some years it certainly is wide-open but not this year. The local sport pundits caution that this might be the year of the underdog. I say, not this year fellers! Portland High (18-0), Falmouth High (17-1) and Bonny Eagle High (17-1) are the class of the 17 schools. A couple of points here-- Portland dispatched all comers, including a solid beating of Bonny Eagle on a neutral court in their only meeting. I was in attendance to see Falmouth manhandle BE in a Holiday Tournament game. This game did not count in the standings, but said a lot. There was no stopping the Yachtmen's height. Falmouth played a quirky schedule, all Class B teams. They'll play a full Class A schedule next year, but how will they fare next week playing the A schools? Bonny Eagle has lost the last three years in the Western A Final. Is this their year to finally take the last step to a State Final and a chance to hoist the Gold Ball?
Don't bet against PHS Bulldogs in the Western Maine Finals.
It might be quite a State Final against Hampden Academy (#1 in Eastern Maine) also 18-0 this morning.
I've got a funny feeling about Bonny Eagle though.
This just might be the Scots' year.
Let's play the games!
That's a sad looking basketball net!
ReplyDeleteenjoyed the photo! ;)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you've thought this out pretty well!
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice photo. I'm moving along! :) H'oops!
ReplyDeleteLove the pic!
ReplyDeleteOur state b-ball tournaments are in March, just in time of major spring snow. Enjoy your games.
ReplyDeleteLove the bright orange building against the blue sky . . . but have no idea what's up when you talk sports. Alas. :)))
ReplyDeleteWith the Super Bowl behind us, can't be long before March Madness.
ReplyDeleteI do love the photograph...that bright orange building next to the hoop.
ReplyDeleteI love high school basketball! Have fun for me!
ReplyDeleteI forgot to ask. What do you catch in all of those crates? I've never been to Maine, so I am genuinely curious. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLobsters, sweetheart!
DeleteGreat photograph, Birdman. Terrific shack, though an awfully sad hoop.
ReplyDeleteI don't know a thing about Maine high school basketball, but it was fun reading about it. Bonny Eagles? I would make fun of that name except that my high school team was the Oniontowners until I was a senior, when we became Falcons. Falcons? I don't think anyone in town had ever even seen a Falcon.
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DeleteThis is a dock, right? A basket, a backboard and, uh, lobster traps? And not much of a surface to dribble on.
ReplyDeleteMy alma mater, St. Louis U., has inexplicably won 15 in a row and, at last report, was Number 13 in the nation. Might even move up this week. Wasn't like that when I was around.
It's Basketball Orange.
ReplyDeleteIn early 1960 during the building of a new HS, those in Buxton wanted BHS, while those in Standish wanted SHS. I hear it was contentious since the land hugged two counties and these two towns. Someone did the research and found that a very large Scottish contingent had settled here once. The actual school was being built on a once tiny hamlet called, you guessed it: Bonny Eagle. Hence BEHS was 'born'. Mascot? The Scots!
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