OLD TOWN – For one half, the Old Town High girls basketball team gave Bangor all it could handle.

“Old Town played well in the first half. They hung in there,” said Bangor coach Tom Tennett.

Then, the Rams came out of the locker room with a vengeance en route to a 67-50 Class A victory at MacKenzie Gymnasium Friday night.

Bangor (11-5) opened the second half on a 14-4 run, capped by a steal and fast-break layup by Ilyse Angst, widening a six-point halftime lead.

The shooting of Katie Bergeron (15 points) and Jennifer Jones (19 points, 10 rebounds) kept Old Town in the game for a while, then Bangor’s pressing man-to-man defense and edge on the boards wore OT down.

Old Town (2-14) didn’t take care of the ball too well, either, to open the half, turning the ball over on its first four possessions.

“Bangor’s size was very good, that was a big difference,” said Old Town coach Justin Page. “[Serena] Dubois and [Kelsey] Curtis on the boards, that was a big difference.”

Tennett said that Bangor’s transition game, which led to easy buckets in the third quarter, was the key to the game.

“In the second half we got a lot of transition baskets, a lot of steals that lead to breakaways,” he said.

Tennett also said that Bangor can’t afford to look ahead to the upcoming Eastern Maine tournament, however, he feels this year’s Rams’ team is a lot better than the one that was knocked out of the tourney in the first round a year ago.

“Right now, the focus is on Brewer,” he said. “Our schedule was much tougher this year; we’re much better prepared for the tourney. We’re not thinking about that right now. We gotta get by Brewer.”

The first half was a chess match for the most part, with Bangor and Old Town seemingly trading buckets each trip down the floor.

Another difference for the Rams was the foul shooting of Dubois. She hit 8 of 11 free throw attempts en route to a game-high 22 points.

Bangor used a balanced scoring attack, placing three players in double figures. Curtis tossed in 15 points, and Amy Hackett chipped in with 10.

Page was impressed with the way Bergeron and Jones hung in there in the second half, particularly the way Jones kept crashing the boards.

“She worked hard and kept getting to the glass,” Page said of Jones. “She had a good game, going against Curtis and Dubois.”

BANGOR 67, OLD TOWN 50

Bangor (11-5) Old Town (2-13)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Angst 1 3 0 0 2 Bergeron 4 14 4 6 15

Dana 0 1 0 0 0 Brown 0 2 0 0

Heath 0 1 0 0 0 Guay 0 1 0

A. Hackett 5 9 0 1 10 Jones 5 16 19

Smith 0 2 2 2 2 Kennedy 0 7 1

Lincoln 2 6 0 0 6 King 4 8 9

Bisacre 0 0 1 2 1 McLghlin 0 0

Wadleigh 1 6 0 0 2 Prendrgst 1 2

Dubois 7 16 8 11 22 Randall 0 1 0

Curtis 6 11 3 6 15 Reardon 2 6 4

Clukey 1 2 0 0 3 Smart 0 0 0

Hartley 0 0 0 0 0 Wilcox 0 0 0

Godinez 1 6 0 1 2

C. Hackett 1 1 0 0 2

Totals 25 64 14 23 67 16 60 15 21 50

Bangor 21 35 53 67

Old Town 14 29 37 50

3-pt. goals – Bangor (3-9): Lincoln 2-6, Clukey 1-2, Godinez 0-1; Old Town (3-12): Bergeron 3-6, Kennedy 0-2, King 0-3, Prendergast 0-1

JV: Bangor 50-47 (OT)

Attendance: 450 (est.)