The Viking boys’ basketball team has completed one of its most successful regular seasons in the last three decades. Now the team gets to play on the biggest stage to see if it can challenge for the school’s first regional title in 36 years.
It did not come easily, which should be expected when going up against their top rivals, but the Vikings put a bow on their brilliant regular season with a 71-58 boys’ varsity basketball win over Presque Isle Thursday in front of a boisterous crowd at Caribou High School.
Although the Maine Principals’ Association Heal Points Standings have yet to be officially finalized, a number of preliminary playoff matchups have been determined in Classes B, C and D.
The UMPI basketball teams hope to halt losing streaks when they make the trip this weekend to take on Northern Vermont-Johnson for two games in Johnson, Vermont.
The Presque Isle hockey team was able to avenge one of its early-season losses on Tuesday, defeating the Kennebec Riverhawks, 4-1, in a match played at Colby College.
Twelve of Presque Isle’s 17 field goals on Wednesday night were taken from beyond the 3-point line, and that perimeter attack led the Wildcat girls to a 51-35 win over Caribou in the varsity basketball teams’ mutual regular season finale.
The Presque Isle hockey team holds the No. 4 position in the Class B North Heal Point standings entering the Tuesday, Feb. 5 make-up road match against Kennebec in Waterville.
The University of Maine at Presque Isle men’s basketball team, which had beaten Thomas College three weeks ago in Waterville, was defeated by the Terriers at home Saturday.
Caribou sophomores Caleb Robbins and Kaden DeMerchant both placed third in their weight divisions at the Penobscot Valley Conference Wrestling Championships Saturday.
The Jan. 29 Nordic races for high school skiers at Four Seasons Trails featured an interesting twist.
