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Camden Hills collects another Eastern Maine crown
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Eastern Class B boys: The Windjammers are headed back to the state final after a 62-37 win over Rockland.
From staff reports February 21, 2009

BANGOR — Camden Hills’ superior depth and its advantage under the basket was too much for neighboring rival Rockland in the Eastern Class B boys' basketball final Saturday afternoon.

The unbeaten and top-seeded Windjammers captured another regional title with a 62-37 win over the third-seeded Tigers.

Camden Hills (21-0) returns to the state championship game for the eighth time since 1994. It has won four state titles during that span.

Before a noisy crowd, many of them wearing the Camden Hills school colors of red and white, the Windjammers took a 16-4 lead on Graham Safford’s driving layup with about three minutes left in the first quarter.

It was 20-12 at the end of the first and 30-20 at halftime. Kiefer Lammi, Safford and Tyler McFarland opened the second half with three straight baskets to put Camden Hills up 36-20.

Rockland (16-6) was never able to climb back into the game. The Tigers had no answer for McFarland, an athletic 6-foot-5 sophomore center. He finished with 15 points, including eight in the second quarter. Gordon Fischer, a 6-foot-6 senior forward, scored 14 points.

Teel Ilvonen, an outside shooting threat, scored 10 points to lead Rockland. The Tigers tried to get inside with 6-foot-6 center Tyler Patterson (4 points), but the big man couldn’t match Camden Hills’ overall quickness.

 


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