Ellsworth Boys Run Past Washington Academy 62-42

The Ellsworth Eagles Boys Basketball Team ran past the Washington Academy Raiders 62-42 on Wednesday, January 8th in East Machias. Eamon MacDonald scored his 1st varsity points with a 3-pointer and Brody Mercier scored his 1st varsity points, going 2-2 from the foul line. Hunter Curtis ripped down 10 boards.

Washington Academy took a early 12-9 lead in the 1st Quarter as the Raiders were very patient and methodical. Josh Ketchen had 5 points with a 3-pointer while Cecil Gray had 4 points and Jax Lin had 3 points. For Ellsworth Jackson Curtis had 3 points and Darby Berry, Austin Harris and Hunter Curtis all had 2 points.

In the 2nd Quarter, a combination of Ellsworth's strong defense and poor shooting by Washington Academy resulted in the Raiders being scoreless while Ellsworth went on a 11-0 run to take a 20-12 lead at the end of the 1st Half. Austin Harris had 8 points with 2 3-pointers. Hunter Curtis had 2 points and Jackson Curtis was 1-2 from the free throw line.

In the 3rd Quarter Ellsworth outscored Washington Academy 25-16 to take a 45-28 lead. Jackson Curtis had 8 points. Brett Bragdon drained back to back 3-pointers for 6 points. Hunter Curtis had 5 points. Darby Berry and Connor Crawford each had 3-pointers. For Washington Academy Lin had 9 points. Ketchen had another 3-pointer and Evan Ackley and Daniel Huang each had 2 points.

In the 4th Quarter Ellsworth had 3 more 3-pointers. Jackson Curtis had 4 points . Austin Harris, Eamon MacDonald and Brett Bragdon each had a 3-pointer. Adam Inman had 2 points and Brody Mercier had 2 points. For Washington Academy Evan Ackley and Ezekiel Olivares each had a 3 pointer. Andon Wood had 4 points as did Daniel Huang.

Ellsworth was led by Jackson Curtis with 16 points while Austin Harris had 13 points. The Eagles were 7-10 from the free throw line

Washington Academy was led by Jax Lin with 12 points. Josh Ketchen had 8 points. The Raiders were 6-10 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth is now 6-2 and will play host to MCI on Saturday, January 11th at 2:30 p.m. in a game that will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device.

Washington Academy is now 7-4 and plays at Mount View on Saturday, January 11th.

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
Ellsworth Boys	9	11	25	17	62
Washington Academy Boys	12	0	16	14	42

Box Score

Ellsworth

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	J’Von James	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
4	Connor Crawford	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
5	Nick Kane	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Hunter Curtis	1	9	4	4	0	1	1	2
11	Austin Harris	1	13	5	2	3	0	0	4
12	Adam Inman	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
14	Brody Mercier	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	0
15	Eamon MacDonald	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	Darby Barry	1	5	2	1	1	0	0	2
21	Andrew Rideout	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
22	Michael Palmer	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
23	Brett Bragdon	1	9	3	0	3	0	0	0
32	Jackson Curtis	1	16	6	6	0	4	6	0
33	Kolbe Hardy	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Deyan Rich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	62	23	14	9	7	10	11

Washington Academy

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
0	Andon Wood	1	4	2	2	0	0	0	3
1	Jax Lin	1	12	4	4	0	4	7	2
5	Joshua Ketchen	1	8	3	1	2	0	0	1
10	Hayden Farrell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	Greg Moulton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
14	Evan Ackley	1	5	2	1	1	0	0	2
20	Daniel Huang	1	6	3	3	0	0	1	3
22	Cecil Gray	1	4	1	1	0	2	2	2
23	Jacob Mills-Lightner	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Ezekiel Olivares	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
35	Ethan Robinson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Ethan Robinson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Jason Chang	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Pedro Pena	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	42	16	12	4	6	10	15

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