Caribou Middle School basketball
Caribou broke open a close game at halftime by outscoring Presque Isle 28-11 in the second half to cruise to a 41-18 win.
The eighth grade Vikings were led by Donovan Savage’s 12 points. Mason Huck added 10, while Michael Hunter and Zach Weatherhead had six and five points respectively.
Dylan LaMothe and Matt Caron received praise for their defensive effort.
Caribou Middle School also played Houlton recently. The Shiretowners enjoyed a hot shooting night and strong rebounding to post a 62-45 win.
Ethan Plourde paced Caribou with 10 points and Savage contributed seven points. Jordan Bevins, Richard Newland and Paul Hanson chipped in with four points apiece. Gabe Massey, Hunter and Tyler Dombroski were strong on defense according to the coach.
Caribou wrapped up the season with a 7-5 record.
UMPI athletics website
The University of Maine at Presque Isle athletics department has a new web presence. The new site went online early this year and so far is gaining rave reviews.
The website designed by Prestosports, out of Rockville, Maryland has many benefits over the previous webpage.
“In addition to looking much better and more uniform, it makes my job a lot easier when it comes to streamlining how quickly we can get scores and stories up on the site and sending them off to our media list,” said Marc Heidorf, sports information director for UMPI.
Heidorf is also the women’s basketball coach so getting information on the website when the team is away is still a challenge.
“But now with our athletics twitter page all I need is my phone and I can at least get a score to our Twitter followers and our Facebook page,” he said.
To check out the new webpage log onto http://owls.umpi.edu.
Player of the Week
UMPI forward Rashell Saucier of Washburn has been named the Association of NCAA Division III Independents “Player of the Week” for her play over the week of Jan. 9.
Saucier played four games in that span and averaged 11.8 points, 11 rebounds and two steals in helping the Owls to a 2-2 record.
“I’m honored for this recognition and at the same time realize that I owe a great deal of my success to my teammates since we are constantly striving to make each other better,” said Saucier.
Back in November, Saucier was the first recipient of the weekly award this season when she came out of the gates averaging 16.7 points and nine rebounds in three games. It is the third time in her career she has earned the AD3I recognition.
