BANGOR – Aaron Gallant and Jordan Allen are two high-energy guys whose basketball paths have rarely crossed. Gallant is a star for Class A Bangor, while Allen led Penquis of Milo to this year’s Eastern Maine Class C championship game.

Both capped off their high school careers in similar fashion Saturday, using both their skill and energy to lead their East boys teams to victory in the annual Maine McDonald’s All-Star Basketball Games at Husson College. Gallant, a 6-foot guard, scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds as the East ended a four-game losing streak to the West with a 74-56 victory in the Classes A-B matchup.

“It was really fun to get to play against all the names from around the state,” said Gallant, who plans to attend Tufts University next fall. “To finally come together in our senior year, it’s great to get to play a game like this for a good cause like the McDonald’s charities.”

Allen, a 6-1 guard, scored 13 of his game-high 18 points in the first half as the East C-D all-stars earned a 64-56 victory to end a three-year losing streak in this annual matchup of the top senior basketball players in the state.

The two East victories, combined with East wins in the two girls all-star games also held at Newman Gymnasium, marked only the second four-game sweep by the East in the 25-year history of the all-star games. The first was in 1994.

In the A-B game, the East never trailed after Gallant opened the contest with a pair of 3-pointers to give his team a 6-0 lead. He scored 10 points in the first half as the East moved out to a 34-26 advantage and finished the game shooting 6-of- 11 from the field, 3-of-4 from beyond the 3-point arc.

“It was pretty much a motion offense, no sets to worry about,” said Gallant. “If you get a good shot, take it.”

East teammate Matt McDonnell, a guard from Oxford Hills of South Paris, matched Gallant’s 17 points, making 5-of-7 3-point attempts and scoring 11 points after the break. Ted Neil, a center-forward from Mt. Blue of Farmington, chipped in with eight points and seven rebounds, while Mr. Basketball finalist Tim Stammen of Camden Hills had seven points and six rebounds.

“We told the guys to just go out and play hard,” said East coach Todd Hanson of Brunswick. “And guys like Aaron and [Bangor’s] Jordan [Heath] and Tim responded, they played hard. We had a guy take a charge. When’s the last time that happened in an all-star game?”

Tyler Emmons, a 6-5 forward from Portland, backed up his selection Friday night as Maine’s Mr. Basketball with 15 points and a game-high 10 rebounds for the West. Andrew Cousins of South Portland scored 13 points and Max Levine of Portland added 10.

In the C-D game, the West took its only lead at 3-0 on a 3-pointer by Jay’s Justin Wells 66 seconds into the game, but Dexter’s Chris Rabideau scored four straight to spark a 17-2 run that put the East in charge. The University of Maine at Fort Kent-bound Allen scored 10 points in the opening quarter, including a pair of quick-release 3-pointers. By intermission, he had made 4-of-5 from beyond the arc as the East held a 31-23 lead.

“In this case, you want to perform well in front of all your peers and the good players out there,” said Allen, the fourth member of his family to play in the all-star games in the last five years, following brothers Jeremy (2001) and Justin (2004) and sister April (2002).

“I just went out and focused on shooting the ball, and thank God for me I was making them.”

James Ramsdell of Washington Academy in East Machias had two steals and five points in the first 90 seconds of the third quarter as the East pushed its lead to 38-23. The lead grew to 20 at 58-38 by the end of the period, as Devin Perkins of Penquis hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Allen followed with a drive, a 3-pointer, and a long pass for a layup by Central of Corinth’s Joey Kane over the final three minutes of the quarter.

Ben Laflin, a guard from Class C state champion Hall-Dale of Farmingdale, led the West with 16 points, while Brad Bryant of Livermore Falls scored 14 and 6-10 Matt Wheelock of Hall-Dale had eight points and eight rebounds.

Ramsdell finished with 12 points for the East, while 6-5 Jason Thompson of Washburn added 11 points and seven rebounds, and Perkins had eight points and eight rebounds.

“I got to meet a bunch of good guys and just get out there and play, and there’s nothing better than that,” said Thompson, a 1,500-point scorer who ended his career as the leading scorer in Washburn history. “You’ve got the best guys in the state out there, and I had a great time.”

EAST A-B BOYS 74, WEST 56

West All-Stars East All-Stars

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Sewall 0 7 0 0 0 Gallant 6 11 17

Thayer 3 6 0 0 7 Heath 1 6 3

Fergola 0 5 0 0 0 Stammen 3 8 7

Oldham 0 2 0 0 0 Jones 2 6 4

Levine 4 9 0 0 10 Carey 1 6 2

Emmons 6 12 1 2 15 Neil 3 10 8

Brownlee 2 6 0 0 4 Kothe 2 7 5

Cousins 5 10 0 0 13 McDonnell 6 10 0 0 17

Hodsdon 1 4 1 3 4 Vayo 3 9 6

Dahms 1 3 1 2 3 Lopez 1 6 5

Totals 22 64 3 7 56 Totals 28 79 14 74

West 13 26 39 56

East 17 34 53 74

3-pt. goals – West (9-31): Cousins 3-6, Levine 2-3, Emmons 2-6, Thayer 1-1, Hodsdon 1-3, Dahms 0-1, Brownlee 0-2, Fergola 0-3, Sewall 0-6; East (11-32): McDonnell 5-7, Gallant 3-4, Kothe 1-2, Lopez 1-4, Heath 1-6, Jones 0-2, Carey 0-3, Stammen 0-4

EAST C-D BOYS 64, WEST 56

West All-Stars East All-Stars

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Knapp 0 4 0 0 0 Woodworth 0 0

Laflin 6 12 4 5 16 Kane 1 6 2

Wheelock 3 5 2 3 8 Murray 2 3 5

Wells 3 8 1 1 8 Rabideau 2 4

Bryant 5 13 1 2 14 Scott 1 5 2

DeLuca 0 5 0 0 0 Allen 6 9 18

Longway 2 7 1 2 6 Perkins 2 6 8

Melcher 1 4 0 0 2 Yeo 1 3 2

Gallant 1 3 0 0 2 Thompson 4 11

Ramsdell 4 15 12

Totals 21 61 9 13 56 Totals 23 68 10 19 64

West 6 23 38 56

East 17 31 58 64

3-pt. goals – West (5-17): Bryant 3-7, Wells 1-2, Longway 1-2, Laflin 0-1, Gallant 0-1, DeLuca 0-4; East (8-25): Allen 4-5, Perkins 2-3, Murray 1-2, Ramsdell 1-3, Scott 0-1, Yeo 0-1, Thompson 0-1, Kane 0-4, Woodworth 0-5