ROCKPORT – It may not have been the artistic success the Camden Hills girls basketball team desired in its postseason opener, but the Windjammers used a fast start as the impetus for a 60-47 Eastern Maine Class B preliminary round victory over Caribou on Tuesday night.

No. 5 Camden Hills scored the game’s first 12 points while holding No. 12 Caribou scoreless for the opening 6 minutes, 47 seconds, leaving the Vikings in catch-up mode the rest of the way.

Kristen Tedford had two baskets and Kate Fetterman went 6-for-6 from the free throw line during that stretch as the Windjammers grabbed defensive rebounds and then beat the Vikings down the court for fast- break opportunities.

“We are an uptempo team, and we try to run the floor constantly,” said Fetterman, a senior forward who finished with 17 points to match Tedford as the game’s high scorer.

“We have great ballhandlers who can pass it down the court so any chance we get to push it up and get easy layups, we take it,” she added.

Camden Hills advanced to a 2:05 p.m. Saturday quarterfinal against No. 4 Erskine Academy of South China at the Bangor Auditorium.

Caribou, which missed its first 14 field goal attempts, finally got going offensively in the second quarter with a 3-point play by Katie Ouellette and a 3-point shot by freshman Jenna Selander, drawing the Vikings to within 13-10.

Caribou then pulled within 15-13 when Ouellette made 1-of-2 free throw attempts with 5:06 left in the half.

“For them getting off the bus after a four- or five-hour bus ride, I’m sure they had to get their legs under them,” said Camden Hills coach Jay Carlsen. “They made a couple of baskets and got to 12-5 and then 12-7, and then they sensed they could play with us and continued to play hard the rest of the way.”

But Camden Hills responded with another run of its own, this time using trapping defense, fast-break offense and offensive rebound might to outscore the Vikings 13-2 over the next four minutes to build a second cushion it would not relinquish.

That surge began with a 3-point play by Fetterman off a fast break, and also included a sequence in which center Maddie Smeaton grabbed the defensive rebound at one end and hustled to score after grabbing an offensive rebound at the other end.

“We didn’t see that running type of game much in the County this year,” said Caribou coach Bill Schofield, “and we didn’t seem to get it until we went into the locker room and came back out and made the adjustment about what had to happen, that we had to turn around and run down the floor and not just jog down.”

Camden Hills – which played the game in honor of school athletic administrator Bill Hughes, hospitalized with a heart ailment last weekend – led 28-19 at the break despite shooting just 9-28 from the field.

The Windjammers offset that by forcing 10 Caribou turnovers and outrebounding the Vikings 20-14 during the early going.

Allie Parent added 11 points and 11 rebounds for Camden Hills, while Selander paced Caribou with 15 points and Karyn King grabbed 10 rebounds.

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WINDJAMMERS 60, VIKINGS 47

Caribou (9-10) Camden Hills (14-5)

Player G AG F AF TP Player G AG AF TP

Bossie 0 0 0 0 0 Duke 2 6 7

Collins 1 4 1 2 3 Thomas 0 0 0

Schofield 0 0 0 0 0 Holmes 0 0 1

Ouellette 1 3 2 3 4 Labree 2 2 5

Espling 1 10 0 0 3 Nason 0 1 0

Richards 3 13 3 5 9 Carlsen 0 0 0

Cyr 2 7 2 4 6 Fetterman 5 14 17

King 1 5 5 5 7 Waldron 0 0 0 0

Selander 3 5 7 12 15 Jeschke 0 0 0

Parent 3 7 5 10 11

Tedford 7 11 3 17

Smeaton 1 6 0 2

LeGage 0 0 0 0

Totals 12 47 20 36 47 Totals 20 47 20 30 60

Caribou 2 19 32 47

Camden Hills 12 28 45 60

3-pt. goals – Caribou (3-10): Selander 2-3, Espling 1-2, Collins 0-1, Cyr 0-4; Camden Hills (0-2): Tedford 0-2

Attendance: 300 (est.)