‘Through the roof’: Edgecomb teen’s team makes final four in national basketball tourney
Number 23, Brandon Sprague of Edgecomb, is third in the line to the left of the player about to make a throw. Courtesy Anita Sprague
Number 23, Brandon Sprague of Edgecomb, is third in the line to the left of the player about to make a throw. Courtesy Anita Sprague
Brandon Sprague, 17, of Edgecomb and his basketball teammates won 71-67 in overtime Saturday morning, July 19, outside Orlando, Florida, to make the final four in the 2014 American Athletic Union (AAU) Boys Basketball Super Showcase’s division for high school sophomores, his mother Anita Sprague said.
The win by the Saco-based, Maine Elite Basketball Club against Nike Florida sets Sprague’s team up for a morning game on Sunday, July 20, his mother said. Winning that game would take the team to the championship game Sunday afternoon.
Anita Sprague described the tournament as a national event with teams from around the country. To get this far, her son’s team suffered a three-point loss in its first game, on Wednesday, July 16, to E1T1 Elite Blue 16 of Florida; then won its next three: 49-31 against World Class Basketball, an Illinois team; 61-43 against TNBA South of Florida; and 52-39, over another team from the Sunshine State, the Brandon Blue Bolts 16, Anita Sprague said.
Her husband, Brandon’s father Gregory Sprague, was with his son at the tournament while she was staying home minding the couple’s business, Four Seasons Automotive in Edgecomb.
Asked how her son and her husband were feeling going into Saturday’s round, she said: “They’re ecstatic. They are through the roof.
“And I’m bummed because I’m not there.”
Her son is a past Wiscasset Christian Academy student who was home-schooled this year. He played varsity basketball in 2013 for Wiscasset High School and plans to again this year when he is a junior. He has not decided where he will study in his junior year. His mother said he is playing this summer in Wiscasset High’s summer basketball league.
His teammates in the Florida tourney are Portland High School’s Amir Moss, Joe Esposito and Austin Phillips; Cheverus’ Gatouch Pan; Westbrook’s Demetrious Hoskins; Sanford’s Haris Lynn; Yarmouth’s Musseit M’Barack; Massabesic’s Dan Amabile; Brandon DiLucchio of Kennett, New Hampshire, and Alexsander Medicina of Serbia, Anita Sprague said. A teammate from Deering, Ben Williams, was unable to attend the tournament, Sprague said.
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