Seahawks win nailbiter
Travis Padilla, center, goes up for two of his 28 points Friday, Jan. 31. Despite Padilla’s heroics the Boothbay Region Seahawks were able to escape Wiscasset with a narrow 67-61 win. BEN BULKELEY/Wiscasset Newspaper
Matt Craig, left, and Thomas Anderson crowd around Seahawk guard Aaron Dickinson. BEN BULKELEY/Wiscasset Newspaper
Travis Padilla, center, goes up for two of his 28 points Friday, Jan. 31. Despite Padilla’s heroics the Boothbay Region Seahawks were able to escape Wiscasset with a narrow 67-61 win. BEN BULKELEY/Wiscasset Newspaper
Matt Craig, left, and Thomas Anderson crowd around Seahawk guard Aaron Dickinson. BEN BULKELEY/Wiscasset Newspaper
Although Sunday's Seahawk victory was anything but a given, the January 31 Seahawk victory was a bit more of a climb.
The Wiscasset High School boys varsity basketball team nearly rallied from double digits to upset the Boothbay Region High School varsity basketball team Friday, Jan. 31. The Seahawks were able to hold on late for the 67-61 victory.
The two teams came out evenly matched, with both teams trading offense for offense before a packed house at Wiscasset High School. After one quarter, the score was knotted at 18 points apiece; with Boothbay's Evan Hepburn and Wiscasset's one-man wrecking ball, Travis Padilla, doing most of the damage. Padilla had 12 first quarter points while Evan Hepburn had 11.
In the second quarter, Boothbay would be able to get some breathing room and pulled ahead, 37-26.
But, Wiscasset was just getting started.
Padilla scored 16 of his game-high 28 points in the second half to help Wiscasset get within four points of their rivals with 33 seconds left.
But, it wasn't to be.
Despite being outscored in the second half, Boothbay was able to keep the lead, thanks in large part to John Hepburn, who finished with 22 points, including 18 in the second half. Evan Hepburn had 17 points for the Seahawks.
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