Brianna Jordan of Gray-New Gloucester High School saves the ball from going out of bounds during the first half of Tuesday’s game against Old Orchard Beach in Gray. The Patriots have moved from eighth to seventh in the latest Varsity Maine girls’ basketball poll. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
The top 10 boys’ and girls’ basketball teams and in Maine, as voted on by reporters from the Press Herald, Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel, Sun Journal, Forecaster, Times Record and Journal Tribune, with first-place votes in parentheses, followed by total points. (Note: Votes cast prior to Wednesday’s games.)
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
1. Bangor (7) 70
2. Edward Little 63
3. Falmouth 46
4. Greely 35
5. Leavitt 33
6. Thornton 32
7. York 29
8. Hermon 21
9. Portland 20
10 (tie). Deering 10
10 (tie). Hampden 10
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
1. Greely (5) 68
2. South Portland (1) 62
3. Scarborough 52
4. Skowhegan (1) 49
5. Oxford Hills 48
6. Brunswick 31
7. Gray-New Gloucester 28
8. Waterville 17
9. Boothbay 11
10 (tie). Hampden 4
10 (tie). Hermon 4
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