Saturday, February 8, 2014

Basketball Zone

*If you don't like basketball, enjoy the photograph and move along.

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!

17 comments:

  1. That's a sad looking basketball net!

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  2. Sounds like you've thought this out pretty well!

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  3. It's a nice photo. I'm moving along! :) H'oops!

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  4. Our state b-ball tournaments are in March, just in time of major spring snow. Enjoy your games.

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  5. Love the bright orange building against the blue sky . . . but have no idea what's up when you talk sports. Alas. :)))

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  6. With the Super Bowl behind us, can't be long before March Madness.

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  7. I do love the photograph...that bright orange building next to the hoop.

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  8. I love high school basketball! Have fun for me!

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  9. I forgot to ask. What do you catch in all of those crates? I've never been to Maine, so I am genuinely curious. Thanks!

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  10. Great photograph, Birdman. Terrific shack, though an awfully sad hoop.

    I 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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  11. This is a dock, right? A basket, a backboard and, uh, lobster traps? And not much of a surface to dribble on.

    My 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.

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  12. In 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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