Ellsworth Girls Win 5th In a Row Beat Orono51-45 [PHOTOS]

The Ellsworth Girls Basketball Team won their 5th game in a row, defeating the Orono Red Riots Monday afternoon, 51-45 December 31st at Katsiaficas Gymnasium in Ellsworth.

Orono led the game until Sierra Andrews tied the game 27-27 with 6:25 left in the 3rd Quarter. Kayla Duhaime then gave Ellsworth its 1st lead, 29-27 with 5:50 left in the 3rd Quarter. Ellsworth would never relinquish that lead.

Orono jumped out to a 21-14 at the end of the 1st Quarter. Ellie Sockabasin dominated in the paint for the Red Riots, scoring 9 points. Alyssa Labelle scored 5 points with a 3-pointer, Lauren Melanson had 4 points, Izzy Baker 2 points and Molly McCluskey was 1-2 from the free throw line. For Ellsworth Trinity Montigny and Samantha Carter each had 2 3's for 6 points, and Kayla Duhaime had 2 points.

Ellsworth outscored Orono 7-4 in the 2nd Quarter to cut Orono's lead to 1 point 25-24 at the end of the 1st Half. For Ellsworth Motigny scored 4 points, Sara Shea and Duhaime each had 2 points and Kylie Robidoux was 2-2 from the free throw line. For the Red Riots Labelle and Lauryn Brown each had 2 points.

Ellsworth outscored Orono 14-6 to take a 38-31 lead at the end of the 3rd Quarter. Carter and Duhaime had 4 points each for Ellsworth, Shea and Sierra Andrews drained 3-pointers for the Eagles. For Orono Sockabasin had 3 points, Labelle 2 points and Melanson was 1-2 from the free throw line.

In the 4th Quarter Montigny had 8 points for Ellsworth, with a 3-pointer. Andrews had 3 points and Autumn Paul had 2 points. For the Red Riots, McCluskey had 6 points, Labelle and Melanson 3 points each and Sockabsin 2 points.

Ellsworth was led by Trinity Montigny with a game high 18 points. Samantha Carter had 10 points and Kayla Duhaime 8 points. Ellsworth was 5-11 from the free throw line.

Orono was led by Ellie Sockabasin with 14 points and Alyssa Labelle had 12 points. The Red Riots were 12-17 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth is now 6-1 and plays at Washington Academy on Thursday, January 3rd at 6:30PM in a game that will be broadcast on WDEA AM 1370, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device.

Orono is 2-5 and will play host to Hermon on Wednesday, January 2nd at 7PM

Thanks to Walter Churchill for the photos.

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
Orono Girls	21	4	6	14	45
Elllsworth Girls	14	10	14	13	51

Box Score

Orono

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
5	Alyssa LaBelle	1	12	5	4	1	1	3	3
11	Brynn Kenney	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Ellie Pierce	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Mary Kate Smith	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Lauryn Brown	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
25	Molly McCluskey	1	7	2	2	0	3	5	5
31	Izzy Baker	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	1
33	Chloe LaBree	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Audrey Pike	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	Camryn Brown	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Lauren Melanson	1	8	3	3	0	2	3	0
55	Ellie Sockabasin	1	14	4	4	0	6	8	1
	TOTALS	1	45	16	15	1	12	19	10

Ellsworth

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	Ella Hubbard	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
4	Kylie Robidoux	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	2
5	Jocelyn Jordan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
10	Samantha Higgins	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Trinity Montigny	1	18	6	3	3	3	8	2
12	Sara Shea	1	5	2	1	1	0	0	0
14	Samantha Carter	1	13	5	2	3	0	0	0
15	Autumn Paul	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	1
20	Adreanna Seavey	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Sierra Andrews	1	3	1	1	0	1	2	3
23	Kayla Duhaime	1	8	4	4	0	0	0	2
33	Alicia Kelley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
34	Samantha Simmons	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	51	19	12	7	6	12	15

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