MDI Boys Basketball Celebrates Key Victory Over Presque Isle

The MDI Boys Basketball Team went on a 18-2 run to start the 3rd Quarter and rallied to beat the Presque Isle Wildcats 69-41 on Saturday afternoon, January 24th in a game in which James Witham scored his 1000th career point.

Presque Ilse led 17-11 at the end of the 1st Quarter as Cruze Casavant had 8 points for the Wildcats. MDI cut into the lead, outscoring Presque Isle 14-11 in the 2nd Quarter and trailed 28-25 at the end of the 1st Half. Using the 18-2 run, MDI outscored the Wildcats 27-13 in the 3rd Quarter to lead 52-41. The 4th Quarter belonged to James Witham, as his MDI teammates kept feeding him the ball and he scored 15 points, hitting his 1000th point via a free throw with 50.6 seconds to play.

MDI was led by Witham with 28 points including 3 3-pointers. Dylan Stoll had 14 points, including 2 3-pointers, with 1 of them coming at the buzzer at the end of the 3rd Quarter. Preston Tripp, Kenneth Stilwell, Coe Thurston and Lyman Pinkham each had a 3-pointer for MDI. The Trojans were 12-15 from the free throw line.

Presque Isle was led by Kason Bua with 17 points including 3 3-pointers. Cruze Cassavant had 14 points with a 3-pointer. Josh Harvell and Nate Tompkins each had a 3-pointer. The Wildcats were 7-15 from the free throw line.

Presque Isle is now 8-7 and in 8th place in the Class B North Heal Point Standings. They will play Fort Kent on Wednesday, January 28

MDI is 14-1 and will play at Hermon on Wednesday, January 28th at 7 p.m. That game will be broadcast on WDEA AM 1370, on our FREE downloadable APP, on WDEA Internet Radio and on any Alexa enabled device with the pregame starting at 6:40 p.m.

Here are the stats.

Line Score

	1	2	3	4
Presque Isle Boys	17	11	13	16	57
MDI Boys	11	14	27	17	69

Box Score

Presque Isle

#	Name	PTS	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
1	Kason Bua	17	4	3	-	4
5	Hudson Porter	0	-	-	-	-
11	Brandon Porter	2	-	-	2	2
12	Jackson Greaves	4	2	-	-	-
20	Blair Guerrette	0	-	-	-	-
21	Josh Harvell	3	-	1	-	-
22	Rafael Urdaneta	0	-	-	-	-
23	Nate Tompkins	8	2	1	1	2
24	Bodey McPherson	0	-	-	-	-
25	Carter Vigue	5	1	-	3	3
32	Eli Mosher	4	2	-	-	2
34	Cruze Casavant	14	5	1	1	2
44	Finn Mosher	0	-	-	-	-
	TOTALS	57	16	6	7	15

MDI

#	Name	PTS	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
10	Preston Tripp	3	-	1	-	-
12	James Witham	28	5	3	9	10
14	Dylan Stoll	14	3	2	2	4
20	Trevor Brophy	0	-	-	-	-
22	Henry Trombetto	0	-	-	-	-
24	Kenneth Stilwell	9	3	1	-	-
30	Lincoln Gray	9	4	-	1	1
32	Coe Thurston	3	-	1	-	-
34	Lyman Pinkham	3	-	1	-	-
40	Wyatt Ford	0	-	-	-	-
42	John Sheppard	0	-	-	-	-
44	Sylas Witham	0	-	-	-	-
52	Owen Dwyer	0	-	-	-	-
	TOTALS	69	15	9	12	15