HOULTON – Mark Socoby converted a traditional three-point play with six seconds left in the game to give the Houlton Shiretowners a 56-54 schoolboy basketball win over Presque Isle Tuesday night.

Socoby netted 24 points for Houlton and Brett Miles added eight.

Fred Bird scored 23 points for Presque Isle.

Presque Isle (3-3) 54

Bird 10-3-23, James 2-0-4, Deschene 1-4-7, Lockhart 2-1-5, Rideout 2-0-6, Whitaker 3-2-9

Houlton (5-5) 56

Socoby 11-1-24, B. Miles 3-0-8, A. Miles 0-2-2, Bartlett 3-0-6, O’Connel 2-1-5, Edwards 2-0-5, Duff 2-2-6, Hill, Brown

3-pt. goals: Deschene, Whitaker; Miles 2, Socoby, Edwards

Presque Isle 16 25 38 54

Houlton 12 27 37 56

JV: Presque Isle 67-61

Hodgdon 62, Washburn 44

At Washburn, Jimmy Griffin scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Hodgdon Hawks.

Adam Hogan and Ken Prescott each scored 11 for Hodgdon.

Jason Thompson led the Beavers with 15 and Chris Pesut chipped in with 11.

Hodgdon (6-2) 62

Griffin 9-6-25, Hogan 2-6-11, Prescott 5-1-11, Nickerson 2-5-9, Sanford 1-2-4, Ledger 1-0-2, Quint, Beals, Nutile, Hovey

Washburn (5-5) 44

Bagley 4-0-9, Pesut 4-3-11, Thompson 6-2-15, Bird 4-0-9, Vaughn, Carter, Bigbee, Drost, Goupille, Hunt

3-pt. goals: Griffin, Hogan; Bagley, Thompson, Bird

Hodgdon 19 32 45 62

Washburn 14 25 30 44

JV: Washburn 42-27

Foxcroft Acad. 59, Piscataquis 41

At Dover-Foxcroft, Danny White scored 17 points to lead the Ponies to their eighth straight win.

Bobby Gilbert netted 16 points for Foxcroft Academy and Josh Withee had 10 points.

Harper Hoffman scored 13 points for Piscataquis of Guilford and John Garrett-Young added 12.

Piscataquis (3-4) 41

Hoffman 2-9-13, Garrett-Young 5-2-12, Luellan 1-0-2, Jardin 2-0-5, Wilson 0-1-1, Tracy 2-3-7, McKenney 0-1-1, Prescott, Erikson, Davis, Ro. Yeo, Ry. Yeo

Foxcroft Academy (8-0) 59

White 7-1-17, Gilbert 6-1-16, Withee 4-0-10, Robinson 1-0-2, Imbert 2-0-4, Kennedy 0-2-2, Carey 1-2-4, Hall 1-2-4, Clark, Perry, Gosslin

3-pt. goals: Jardin; Gilbert 3, White 2, Withee 2

Piscataquis 8 12 24 41

Foxcroft Acad. 13 25 46 59

JV: Foxcroft Academy 47-41

Ellsworth 59, Sumner 46

At East Sullivan, Ellsworth outscored Sumner 18-6 in the third quarter to help take the lead and the win.

Joey DeWitt netted 20 points for the Eagles while Nick Sawyer scored 12 and Matt Wood had 10.

Larry Plummer led Sumner with 17 points and 14 rebounds while Jamey Polk contributed with 15 points and nine rebounds.

Ellsworth (3-5) 59

Berry 1-0-3, DeWitt 6-6-20, Mayo 2-0-4, Sawyer 2-8-12, Sprague 1-0-2, Tracy 3-0-8, Wood 4-1-10

Sumner (5-3) 46

Polk 4-7-15, Johnson 2-0-5, Huber 1-0-3, Plummer 5-7-17, Joy 1-1-4, White 1-0-2, Allen, Pennartz, Kidder, Coffin, Pinkham

3-pt. goals: DeWitt 2, Tracy 2, Berry, Wood; Johnson, Huber, Joy

Ellsworth 17 24 42 59

Sumner 13 27 33 46

JV: Ellsworth 48-44

Cent. Aroostook 90, Wisdom 26

At St. Agatha, the Panthers outscored the Pioneers 25-2 in the first quarter to take command of the game.

Jason Chavez had 15 points for Central Aroostook of Mars Hill while Erick Martinez and Ryan Shaw had 14 points apiece.

Tyler Thibeault had 13 points for Wisdom.

Central Aroostook (7-2) 90

Faulkner, Clockedile 2-2-6, McLaughlin 3-0-8, York 1-4-6, Grew 4-1-9, Martinez 4-5-14, Woodworth 3-0-6, Chavez 7-1-15, Shaw 7-0-14, Walsh 4-0-8, Kilcollins 1-1-3, London 0-1-1

Wisdom (0-6) 26

Daigle 0-1-1, Lugdon 2-1-5, B. Thibeault 3-0-6, T. Thibeault 4-3-13, Derosier 0-1-1, Paradis, Berce, Sinclair, Chasse, Dyment

3-pt. goals: Martinez 2, McLaughlin

Cent. Aroostook 25 50 67 90

Wisdom 2 14 21 26

JV: Wisdom 47-44

Hockey

Presque Isle 3, Stearns 1

At Presque Isle, Joe Collins scored the first two goals to keep the Wildcats ahead.

Collins had two goals and one assist for Presque Isle and Derek Demerchant had a goal with an assist. Bryan Fowler stopped 12 of 13 shots for 5-2 Presque Isle.

Drew Somers scored off of a Nate Frank assist as Nick Simon made 47 saves on 50 shots for 1-4 Stearns.

Houlton-Hodgdon 7, Orono 3

At Miller Arena in Houlton, Jared Sylvia had three goals while Mitch Hall finished with two plus two assists to lead the Houlton-Hodgdon Black Hawks to the victory.

Ben Carton had a goal and two assists, Tyler Hutchinson scored one goal, and Ian Pasquarelli had four assists for the 7-2 Hawks. Nick Fitzpatrick had an assist and finished with 23 saves on 26 shots.

Dylan Huckenstein and Tom Smyth each had a goal and an assist for the 3-5 Red Riots. Evan James scored the other goal and Anthony Hegstrom made 26 saves on 33 shots.

Girls basketball

Ashland 63, Easton 31

At Easton, Ashley Peters scored 17 points to lead the Hornets past the Bears.

Ashley Nemer added 16 points for Ashland and Amber Smith put in 10.

Jessica Ferris paced Easton with nine points.

Ashland (5-4) 63

Peters 8-1-17, Nemer 6-4-16, Smith 5-0-10, Caron 1-0-2, Carney 1-0-2, Chamberlin 1-0-3, Sherman 2-0-4, Spooner 2-0-4, Belskis 1-1-3, Long 1-0-2, Wilson, Clark, Sock, Jacques, Haford

Easton (1-8) 31

Ferris 4-0-9, Lovely 3-1-7, Patterson 2-0-4, Carbone 1-2-4, Alexander 2-1-5, Hickey 1-0-2, Pytlak, Barnes, Ladner

3-pt. goals: Chamberlin; Ferris

Ashland 12 18 45 63

Easton 5 13 14 31

Limestone 51, Van Buren 32

At Limestone, Ashley Brooker scored eight points in the second quarter and Traci Weatherhead six as Limestone/Maine School of Science and Mathematics turned a three-point first-quarter deficit into a 13-point halftime lead.

Brooker finished with 14 points and Weatherhead 12. Haley Redmond and Nikki Michaud added nine each.

Danielle Gagnon led the Crusaders with 14 points, and Michelle Parent had eight.

Van Buren (5-5) 32

Gagnon 7-0-14, Parent 3-2-8, Caron 3-0-6, Levasseur 2-0-4, Hews, Martin, Beckwith, McLaughlin

Limestone/MSSM (5-1) 51

Brooker 5-3-14, T. Weatherhead 4-4-12, Redmond 3-3-9, Michaud 4-1-9, Stackhouse 1-1-3, St. Pierre 1-0-2, A. Weatherhead 1-0-2, Beaulieu, Ryder, Beaton

3-pt. goals: Brooker

Van Buren 12 16 24 32

Limestone/MSSM 9 29 38 51

Calais 49, East Grand 35

At Calais, Danielle O’Brien scored 13 points to lead Calais past East Grand.

Crystal Martin netted 11 points to add to her eight steals and seven rebounds.

Amanda Godley scored 21 points for East Grand and Marie Gilman had 10.

East Grand (2-6) 35

Godley 9-3-21, Gilman 4-0-10, Parker 0-2-2, Osnoe 1-0-2, Shay, Marks, Dodge, Zaneldin, McKay

Calais (5-3) 49

Martin 5-0-11, O’Brien 5-3-13, Smith 1-0-3, Eagan 4-0-9, C. Tylor 4-0-9, McGinley 1-0-2, Gillespie 1-0-2, Feck, L. Tylor

3-pt. goals: Gilman 2; Martin, Smith, Eagan, C. Tylor

East Grand 10 23 27 35

Calais 12 23 37 49

CAHS 58, Fort Fairfield 45

At Mars Hill, the Panthers scored 39 points from the free throw line in their win over the Tigers.

Gabrielle Smith had 15 points and Lindsay Michaud scored 10 to lead Central Aroostook.

Libby Gardner topped Fort Fairfield with 12 points.

Fort Fairfield (7-3) 45

Esancy 0-2-2, Arato, Gardner 1-10-12, McLaughlin 1-0-3, Butler 1-0-2, K. Searles 1-1-3, Churchill 2-1-5, O’Neil 1-0-2, Demerchant 1-2-4, Langworthy 2-0-4, D. Searles 3-2-8

Central Aroostook (7-4) 58

Caron, Smith 4-6-15, Barton 1-6-8, Rideout 2-2-6, Graham, Collins 0-2-2, Fletcher 1-6-8, Carvell 1-5-7, Gosselin 1-0-2, Michaud 1-8-10, Brewer

3-pt. goals: McLaughlin; Smith

Fort Fairfield 9 13 28 45

Cent. Aroostook 4 25 41 58

JV: Central Aroostook 37-31

Shead 39, Machias 25

At Machias, Kristen Beaulieu scored 19 points to help lead Shead to the win.

Katrina Rudd led the Machias effort with 25 points.