Orman fulfills 3-point promise, fans to wear special T-shirts

BANGOR – As she stood near the Mount Desert Island locker room after Saturday afternoon’s 57-53 overtime quarterfinal win over Winslow, Amber Orman produced a folded piece of white paper and proudly showed it off to teammate Lindsay Lewis.

The piece of paper was a handwritten agreement, signed Thursday, that if Orman made at least three 3-pointers against the Black Raiders, there would be a few guys in the audience for her next game wearing T-shirts in her honor.

“It’s going to have to say something like, ‘Amber is the greatest,'” Orman said with a laugh.

Orman made her three 3-pointers – she finished with 18 points – which means MDI assistant boys coaches Brent Barker and Ben Ketchen and former MDI standout Jason Asher had better start decorating their shirts now.

The girls know Asher, who also played at NCAA Div. II Connecticut College, because he worked with some of the MDI girls and boys this summer at the Northeast Harbor School.

Asher was back at the school this week to help the Trojans in practice. His job was to act as Winslow’s 6-2 center Stephanie Bossie.

“The big thing we had to do was shut her down, because we heard she had 35 points in the prelims,” Orman said.

Despite the help in practice, neither Asher nor the two assistants will be able to get out of their T-shirt promises.

“They better get their markers ready,” Orman said.