Ellsworth Girls Basketball “Guts” Out Victory Over MCI Huskies 38-25

Saturday afternoon's victory over the MCI Huskies in Pittsfield was a gut-check for the Ellsworth Girls Basketball Team. The team proved they could win without senior standout Trintity Montigny leading the way, as she picked up 2 quick fouls and then was injured with a blow to the face. Relying on others, the Eagles beat MCI 38-25 on December 14th.

In the 1st Quarter Ellsworth led 9-7. Samantha Carter led the Eagles with 9 points, while Jocelyn Jordan had 3 points and Trinity Montigny 2 points. For the Huskies Sara Linkletter had 3 points and Leah Bussell and Danielle Dow 2 points each.

Ellsworth led 15-13 at the end of the 1st Half. Sara Shea and Autumn Paul had 2 points each, while Montigny and Samantha Carter were each 1-2 from the free throw line. For MCI Dow had 5 points with a 3-pointer and Bussell was 1-2 from the charity stripe.

The game remained a 2 point contest at the end of the 3rd Quarter, with Ellsworth leading 21-19. Jordan, Casey Carter and Samantha Higgins each had 2 points for Ellsworth, while Hannah Robinson had 4 points for MCI and Dow adding 2 more.

In the 4th Quarter Ellsworth broke the game open, outscoring MCI 17-6. Casey Carter who played the majority of the JV game and logged about 28 minutes in the Varsity game had 6 points, with a 3-pointer and going 3-4 from the free throw line. Jordan had 4 points, Carter a 3-pointer and Kylie Robidoux 2 points. Autumn Paul and Trinity Montigny were each 1-2 from the free throw line. For MCI Leah Bussell had 3 points and Jillian Frost was 2e b-2 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth was led by Jocelyn Jordan with 9 points while Casey Carter had 8 points. The Eagles were 10-20 from the free throw line.

MCI was led by Danielle Dow with 9 points and Leah Bussell had 7 points. The Huskies were 8-18 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth, now 2-0 will play host to Orono on Tuesday, December 17th at 7 p.m. That game will be broadcast on AM 1370, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device.

MCI 1-2 plays host to Belfast on Tuesday, December 17th at 6:30 p.m.

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
Ellsworth Girls	9	6	6	17	38
MCI Girls	7	6	6	6	25

Box Score

Ellsworth

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	Morgan Clifford	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Jocelyn Jordan	1	9	4	4	0	1	4	3
5	Casey Carter	1	8	2	1	1	3	4	2
10	Samantha Higgins	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
11	Trinity Montigny	1	4	0	0	0	4	6	2
12	Sara Shea	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	2
14	Samantha Carter	1	4	1	0	1	1	2	3
15	Kylie Robidoux	1	4	2	2	0	0	0	3
21	Sierra Andrews	1	2	1	1	0	0	2	1
23	Kayla Duhaime	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Amber-Rae Pesek	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Alicia Kelley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
50	Autumn Paul	1	3	1	1	0	1	2	0
	TOTALS	1	38	13	11	2	10	20	16

MCI

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
2	Jillian Frost	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	0
3	Natalie Sites	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Danielle Dow	1	9	4	3	1	0	0	2
12	Sara Linkletter	1	3	0	0	0	3	5	2
15	Iciar Corrales	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Janessa Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Hannah Robinson	1	4	1	1	0	2	7	0
25	Tereza Lazarova	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Natalie Hodgins	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
32	Leah Bussell	1	7	3	3	0	1	4	4
35	Ella Bernier	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	25	8	7	1	8	18	9