Ellsworth Boys to the Semis 56-28

The Ellsworth Boy's Basketball Team served notice that they could be the team to beat in the Class B North 2016 Tournament with a dominating 56-28 victory over the MCI Huskies on Saturday morning at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.

It was 10-10 at the end of the 1st Quarter, as Treston Grier hit a 3-pointer from half court to tie the game at the buzzer. Grier had 2 3-pointers and 6 points for the Huskies, while Josh Buker had 4 points. For Ellsworth, Bryce Harmon had 5 points and Kyle Golding had a 3-pointer and Cooper Henderson had 2 points.

The Eagles outscored MCI 22-2 in the 2nd Quarter. Bruce St. Peter had 9 points, Nick Bagley had 7 points, Golding and Alex Braley drained 3-pointers for the Eagles. Grier had MCI's lone 2 points. At the half, it was Ellsworth 32 MCI 12.

In the 3rd Quarter, MCI cut into the lead, but only a bit, as the Eagles led 41-24 at the end of the 3rd Quarter. Zach Harris had a 3-pointer for the Eagles, while Golding, Bagley and St. Peter each had 2 points. For MCI Grier had 5 points, with a 3-pointer, Juan Bango Roig Garcia had 4 points and Buker had a 3-pointer.

In the 4th Quarter, Ellsworth's defense limited MCI to 4 points while the Eagle offense poured in 15. For the Eagles, Braley had 5 points with a 3-pointer, St. Ptder had 4 points, Dylan Taplin had 2 points, Bagley had 2 points and Harmon had 1 point.

Ellsworth was led by St. Peter with 15 points, while Nick Bagley had 11 points and Alex Braley and Kyle Golding each had 8 points. The Eagles were 11-19 from the free throw line.

MCI was led by Treston Grier with 13 points while Josh Buker had 7 points and Juan Bango Roig Garcia had 6 points. The Huskies were 4-8 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth the #2 seed 15-4 now advances to play Caribou, the #6 seed 12-8, on Wednesday night, February 17th at 7:05 PM in a game that will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA and WDEA Internet Radio.

MCI finishes their season with a 8-12 mark

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
MCI Boys	10	2	12	4	28
Ellsworth Boys	10	22	9	15	56

Box Score

MCI

#	Name	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF	PTS
1	Treston Grier	4	1	3	2	2	2	13
3	Caleb Romanov	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Pedro Matos	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
12	Matthew Glidden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Braden Monteyro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Adam Bertrand	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
15	Josh Buker	3	2	1	0	0	1	7
20	Carter Pearl	0	0	0	1	2	2	1
21	Dillon Fitts	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
22	Eli Bussell	0	0	0	1	2	1	1
23	Evgenii Tilipman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Juan Garcia	3	3	0	0	0	3	6
30	Greg Vigue	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	TEAM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	10	6	4	4	8	15	28

Ellsworth

#	Name	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF	PTS
3	Alex Braley	2	0	2	2	2	0	8
4	Kyle Golding	3	1	2	0	0	2	8
5	Dylan Taplin	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
10	Zac Harris	1	0	1	0	1	1	3
11	Trent Mahon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Jared Brown	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
15	Bryce Harmon	2	2	0	2	5	2	6
20	Aaron Boumil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Jared Hamilton	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	Nick Bagley	4	4	0	3	4	4	11
23	Charlie Libbey	0	0	0	1	2	0	1
30	Bruce St.Peter	6	6	0	3	6	1	15
32	Dylan Kelley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Cooper Henderson	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
	TEAM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	20	15	5	11	20	12	56