MDI Boys Beat Ellsworth 58-38 [PHOTOS]

The MDI Boys Basketball Team beat the Ellsworth Eagles 58-38 in Bar Harbor on Friday, January 11th.

The Trojans jumped out to a 14-8 lead in the 1st Quarter. Derek Collin and Drew Shea scored 6 points each for the Trojans and Erik Merchant chipped in 2 points. For Ellsworth Devin Grindle and Austin Harris each had a 3-pointer and Jackson Curtis had 2 points.

In the 2nd Quarter MDI increased their lead to 16 points, outscoring Ellsworth 16-6 to take a 30-14 lead at the end of the 1st Half. In the 2nd Quarter Collin had 7 points, Kyle Nicholson drained a 3-pointer and Brett Duley, Eli Parady and Steven Pierce each had 2 points. For Ellsworth Jackson Curtis had 4 points and Hunter Curtis 2 points.

In the 3rd Quarter Ellsworth rebounded, cutting the lead to 5 points at one point, as the Eagles outscored MDI 20-12 to cut MDI's lead to 8 points as the buzzer sounded to end the 3rd Quarter 42-38. For Ellsworth Hunter Curtis had 8 points, and the 3's started to drop as Grindle, Connor Crawford and Darby Barry each had a 3-pointer, while Jackson Curtis had 3 points after scoring a basket and making the free throw after he was fouled. For MDI Duley, Collin, She, Parady, Pierce and Porter Isaacs each had 2 points.

The 4th Quarter belonged to MDI, as they outscored Ellsworth 16-4. Parady had 8 points, all inside the paint for Ellsworth, Duley had 5 points with a 3-pointer and Pierce hit a 3-pointer. Ellsworth's points came from Austin Harris.

MDI was led by Derek Collin with a game high 15 points. Eli Parady had 12 points. The Trojans were 7-9 from the free throw line. Ellsworth was led by Hunter Curtis with 10 points and Jackson Curtis with 9 points. The Eagles were 3-8 from the free throw line.

MDI is now 7-2 and will play host to Orono on Tuesday, January 15th at 7PM. You can hear the game on WDEA AM 1370, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device with the pregame starting at 6:45

Ellsworth is now 6-4 and are right back on the hard court Saturday afternoon, when they travel to Belfast to play the Lions at 2:30. You can hear the game on WDEA AM 1370, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device

Thanks to Walter Churchill for the photos!

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
Ellsworth Boys	8	6	20	4	38
MDI Boys	14	16	12	16	58

Box Score

Ellsworth

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	Devin Grindle	1	6	2	0	2	0	2	3
4	Connor Crawford	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	2
10	Hunter Curtis	1	10	4	4	0	2	2	2
11	Brett Bragdon	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	Colin Lacasse	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
14	Norman Jodrey	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
15	Noah Neleski	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
20	Darby Barry	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
23	Austin Harris	1	7	3	2	1	0	0	0
32	Jackson Curtis	1	9	4	4	0	1	2	3
33	Malcolm Svec	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Deyan Rich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	38	15	10	5	3	8	14

MDI

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
10	Ethan Merchant	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Kyle Nicholson	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
14	Cadin Lunt	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
20	Brett Duley	1	9	3	2	1	2	2	3
22	Brady Renault	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Erik Merchant	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	3
30	Charlie Parker	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
32	Derek Collin	1	15	6	6	0	3	5	2
34	Lukas Keene	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Jack DaCorte	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Brennan Hubbard	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Drew Shea	1	8	4	4	0	0	0	2
50	Eli Parady	1	12	6	6	0	0	0	2
52	Porter Isaacs	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	2
54	Steven Pierce	1	7	2	1	1	2	2	2
	TOTALS	1	58	24	21	3	7	9	19