MDI Girls Top Ellsworth Setting Up Rematch in Prelim 42-35 [PHOTOS]

The MDI Girls Basketball Team beat Ellsworth 42-35 in the final regular season game of the season for the 2 teams, in Bar Harbor on Wednesday February 5th. The win by MDI means they'll enter the playoffs as the 7th seed and will host Ellsworth the 10th seed in a prelim game on Tuesday, February 11th.

MDI jumped out to a 10-7 lead at the end of the 1st Quarter. Leah Carroll had 4 points for MDI while Olivia Gray, Rachelle Swanson and Elizabeth Jones each chipped in 2 points. For Ellsworth Trinity Montigny had 6 points on 2 3-pointers and Jocelyn Jordan had 1 point.

It was 16-13 MDI at the end of the 1st Half, as the 2 teams deadlocked 6-6 in the 2nd Quarter. Morgan Clifford had a 3-pointer for Ellsworth, Samantha Carter 2 points and Montigny was 1-2 from the free throw line. For MDI Carroll and Jones each had 2 points and Swanson was 2-2 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth outscored MDI 11-10 in the 3rd Quarter to cut MDI's lead to just 2 points 26-24 at the end of the 3rd Quarter. Kylie Robidoux had 4 points or Ellsworth with Jordan, Montigny and Samantha Carter each having 2 points while Sierra Andrews was 1-2 from the free throw line. For MDI Elena Alderman had 5 points with a 3-pointer. Rachelle Swanson was 3-4 from the free throw line and Leah Carroll had 2 more points.

In the 4th Quarter Ellsworth hung in until the very last minutes.Sierra Andrews and Morgan Clifford each had a 3-pointer for the Eagles. Jocelyn Jordan and Autumn Paul each had 2 points while Casey Carter was 1-2 from the free throw line. MDI was 6-10 from the free throw line in the final quarter. Jones and Carroll each had 4 points. Emily Carter, Elena Alderman and OIivia Gray each had 2 points while Rachelle Swanson was 1-2 from the free throw line.

MDI was led by Leah Carroll with a game high 12 points. Elizabeth Jones had 9 points. Jones led the Trojans with 11 reboundsThe Trojans were 15-20 from the free throw line.

Ellsworth was led by Trinity Montigny with 9 points and Morgan Clifford had 6 points. Jocelyn Jordan had 8 rebounds to lead the Eagles. The Eagles were 4-10 from the free throw line.

MDI finishes the regular season with an 11-7 record while Ellsworth finishes with a 10-8 record.

The prelim game on Tuesday, will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA, 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 Girls	7	6	11	11	35
MDI Girls	10	6	10	16	42

Box Score

Ellsworth

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	Morgan Clifford	1	6	2	0	2	0	0	1
4	Jocelyn Jordan	1	5	2	2	0	1	2	2
5	Casey Carter	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	1
10	Samantha Higgins	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Trinity Montigny	1	9	3	1	2	1	2	2
12	Sara Shea	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
14	Samantha Carter	1	4	2	2	0	0	0	2
15	Kylie Robidoux	1	4	2	2	0	0	2	1
21	Sierra Andrews	1	4	1	0	1	1	2	2
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	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	35	13	8	5	4	10	12

MDI

#	Name	G	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA	PF
3	Molly Ritter	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Elena Alderman	1	7	2	1	1	2	4	2
13	Emily Carter	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
15	Grace Witham	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	Lexi Rich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
23	Leah Carroll	1	14	5	5	0	4	4	3
25	Abbie Farley	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Olivia Gray	1	5	2	2	0	1	2	3
33	Rachelle Swanson	1	5	1	1	0	3	4	0
35	Olivia Joyce	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Elizabeth Jones	1	9	2	2	0	5	6	3
45	Hannah Joy	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	1	42	13	12	1	15	20	13