Calais cruises; Central advances Blue Devils, Red Devils set to square off in Friday semifinal contest

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BANGOR – Show Bob McShane a stat sheet, and the longtime Calais girls coach will likely discount nearly everything it seems to be telling you.

He says his team’s the same way.

“The kids don’t care about stats at all,” McShane said Tuesday, after the top-seeded Blue Devils had rolled to an 82-26 Class C quarterfinal win over No. 4 Hodgdon.

“We never even talk about stats, other than taking an offensive foul … and rebounding,” he said.

While the stat sheet can’t tell you exactly how crisp McShane’s offense was Tuesday, and it might not be able to show you how tenacious his defenders were (the 42 turnovers the Blue Devils forced might give you a general idea), it still holds some convincing numbers.

Calais reeled off twin 26-0 runs – one bridging the first and second quarters, and another over the second and third – shot a sizzling .571 from the floor, and ended Hodgdon’s playoff run.

The Hawks finish 5-15, while Calais moves to 19-1 and earns a semifinal matchup with Central of Corinth. Central topped Madawaska 60-50 Tuesday in another girls quarterfinal. Calais and Central play Friday at 2:05 p.m.

Other nuggets gleaned from a stat-sheet gone mad:

. Senior star Lanna Martin scored 18 points, made 10 steals, handed out six assists and grabbed five rebounds.

. Classmate Katie Frost added 23 points on 9-for-11 shooting, grabbed five rebounds and had four steals.

. After Calais’ second big spurt of the game, they held a 56-9 lead over the Hawks. McShane removed his starters at that point (with 4:12 to go in the third).

Martin said she was pleased with how the Blue Devils performed … for the most part.

“Our boxing out [wasn’t good]. In the first few minutes they had a lot of second opportunities, which we can’t allow to happen. And we’ve still got to keep working on our defense. We can always get better.”

Alicia Dwyer scored 11 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Hodgdon.

In the first girls semifinal of the day, Madawaska entered the game having never won a tournament contest (boys or girls) in Bangor.

Central junior Katie Ahearn and a band of youngsters made sure that streak continued.

Ahearn, a wiry, tenacious 5-foot-9 forward, scored 17 points, grabbed 23 rebounds and helped neutralize 6-foot-3 Madawaska senior Meghan Marshall.

Twelve of Ahearn’s rebounds came on the offensive end.

“I wanted to focus on getting rebounds because I knew she was gonna block a lot of my shots, which she did,” Ahearn said.

Marshall scored 12 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and added six blocks for the Owls, but some early foul trouble made her a bit more tentative. Ahearn took advantage of that and scored five of her hoops on putbacks of misses – either her own or a teammate’s.

“I just focused on boxing her out as hard as I could and getting as many rebounds as I could,” Ahearn said.

That attitude was contagious, as the Red Devils outrebounded Madawaska 53-38 in their first appearance at the Bangor Auditorium since 1994.

Scrappy 5-1 sophomore Casey Davis scored 13 and grabbed 12 rebounds for Central while freshman Jenny Rollins added 12 points and nine boards. Freshman Nicole Daniel scored 12 more.

The Owls got 14 points from senior Kristen Cyr, who scored her 1,000th career point on a 3-pointer with 56 seconds to play.

Michele Lavertu added 13 points.

RED DEVILS 60, OWLS 50

Central girls (10-10) Madawaska (13-6)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Collins 1 4 0 0 2 Gerard 2 5 5

Davis 5 16 3 5 13 Martin 1 5 4

Rollins 6 23 0 0 12 Plourde 0 0 0

Daniel 5 8 2 4 12 K. Cyr 6 24 14

Bell 2 4 0 0 4 Marshall 6 16 12

Ahearn 8 18 1 1 17 Dube 0 0 2

Lyford 0 0 0 0 0 Lavertu 5 13 13

Griffiths 0 1 0 0 0

Parker 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 27 74 6 10 60 Totals 20 63 21 50

Central 9 26 41 60

Madawaska 6 19 31 50

3-pt. goals: Central (0-0); Madawaska (1-3): Gerard 0-1, K. Cyr 1-2

BLUE DEVILS 82, HAWKS 26

Hodgdon (5-14) Calais (19-1)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Quint 0 5 0 0 0 Smith 1 1 3

Williams 0 1 0 0 0 C. Martin 2 4

A. Sloat 0 3 0 0 0 Eagan 2 3 6

McGary 0 6 0 0 0 L. Martin 7 10 3 4 18

K. Sloat 1 2 0 0 2 N. Feck 2 4 5

Martin 0 3 0 0 0 O’Brien 0 2 3

D. Fitzpatrick 0 1 2 2 2 D. Feck 0 2

Foster 0 3 1 4 1 Welch 0 3 1

Nightingale 1 3 2 2 4 Frost 9 11 23

Tidd 0 4 0 0 0 McGinley 1 2 2

Dwyer 3 6 3 4 11 Smith 3 4 8

Wilson 1 2 0 0 2 Mahan 0 0 0

Leon 0 0 3 3

Drew 1 2 2 4

Totals 7 47 9 18 26 Totals 28 49 24 43 82

Hodgdon 4 9 14 26

Calais 27 45 64 82

3-pt. goals: Hodgdon (3-11): Quint 1-3, A. Sloat 0-1, Martin 0-2, D. Fitzpatrick 0-1, Dwyer 2-3; Calais (2-3): L. Martin 1-1, Welch 0-1, Frost 1-1