Elllsworth Boys Basketball Beats Mt. View 78-61 [STATS]

The Ellsworth Boys Basketball Team beat Mt. View 78-61 in Thorndike on Saturday afternoon in the team's 1st game of the 2022-23 season.

The game was close at the end of the 1st Quarter with Ellsworth leading 24-17 and 41-36 at the end of the 1st Half. But Ellsworth outscored Mount View 20-9 in the 3rd Quarter to lead 61-45 and never looked back in the victory.

Ellsworth was led by Chance Mercier who had a game-high 37 points. Kyle Kenny had 9 points and Eamon MacDonald had 8 points. Ellsworth was 12-19 from the free throw line. The Eagles had 6 3-pointers. MacDonald had 2 3's and Chance Mercier, Miles Palmer and Josiah James-Chin each had 1 3-pointer.

Josiah James-Chin and Dawson Curtis scored their 1st varsity points for Ellsworth.

Mt. View was led by Wyatt Evanson who finished with 21 points. Max Bottenfield had 12 points and Tyler Russell and Noah Hurd each had 11 points. The Mustangs were 15-27 from the free throw line. Hurd had 3 3-pointers, Bottenfield 2 3-pointers and Russell 1 3-pointer.

Ellsworth now 1-0 will play at MDI on Wednesday, December 14th at 7 p.m. That game will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device.

Mt. View, 0-1 will host Belfast on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:30 p.m.

You can nominate someone for the 92.9 The Ticket High School Athlete of the Week. Please email chris.popper@townsquaremedia.com by Monday night December 12th for Week 1's nominees. Voting will take place Tuesday-Thursday with the winner being announced on Friday, December 16th.

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Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
EHS Boys	24	17	20	17	78
Mount View Boys	17	19	9	16	61

Box Score

Ellsworth

Name	PTS	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
Chance Mercier	37	13	1	8	10
Miles Palmer	6	1	1	1	3
Michael Harris	4	2	-	-	-
Cruz Coffin	2	1	-	-	2
Kaleb Connors	0	-	-	-	-
Josiah James-Chin	3	-	1	-	-
Wyatt Bragdon	0	-	-	-	-
Eamon MacDonald	8	1	2	-	-
Peter Keblinsky	7	2	1	-	-
Kyle Kenney	9	4	-	1	2
Ethan LeClerc	0	-	-	-	-
Dawson Curtis	2	-	-	2	2
Isiah Corson	0	-	-	-	-
TEAM	0	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	78	24	6	12	19

Mt. View

Name	PTS	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
Noah Hurd	11	1	3	-	-
Ryan Oliver	0	-	-	-	-
Joe Morse	0	-	-	-	-
Ben Osborne	4	1	-	2	4
Nick Cobb	1	-	-	1	2
Max Bottenfield	12	2	2	2	2
Ben Richards	0	-	-	-	-
Isaac Ellis	0	-	-	-	-
Tyler Russell	11	3	1	2	5
Wyatt Evanson	21	7	-	7	12
Stuart Knowlton	0	-	-	-	-
Ben Grassi	0	-	-	-	-
Brock Cassidy	0	-	-	-	-
Collin Jones	1	-	-	1	2
Wyatt Bennett	0	-	-	-	-
Cameron Rae	0	-	-	-	-
TEAM	0	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	61	14	6	15	27