Sunday, May 26, 2013
The shoes of the Hall-Dale girls' basketball team are almost blinding. They are that pink. Blame the captains, Kristina Buck, Carylanne Wolfington and Wendy Goldman.
“Christina, Wendy and I decided we wanted to get the same shoes. We all loved pink so we got pink,” Wolfington said. “Then someone else got pink so we were like, everybody's gotta get these pink shoes.”
They're certainly eye-catching, just like the bright blue stick-on tattoo Wolfington sported on her left shoulder. She wore one a few games ago on a lark. Now it's part of a very long list of Hall-Dale superstitions.
“We're really superstitious,” Wolfington said. “There's like a million superstions. If we don't do them, the world's gonna end.”
WAYNFLETE FLYING: Sure, Martha Veroneau scored 47 points in Waynflete's win over Boothbay. But the Flyers had help from all over, as they hit 12 of 30 3-pointers. What should have been a competitive game quickly devolved into shootaround as the Flyers hit nearly every open look.
“I told the kids, our goal is always to have them play loose when everyone else here is missing shots,” Coach Brandon Salway said. “When you can do that in here, who knows what you can do.
"We just shot the lights out today. I think a lot of it is just attitude, not worrying that you might miss the shot.”
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Paul Betit is an Augusta native and graduate of the University of Maine. He has covered Maine high school sports for more than 30 years and is entering his seventh season as a beat writer covering the Portland Pirates. In his spare time, Betit writes mystery-suspense novels. Occasionally, he tries to sink his second career hole-in-one.
Glenn Jordan came to Maine in 1994 to cover the nascent Portland Sea Dogs. After eight baseball seasons and three children – the last two within 18 minutes of each other – he became a part-time writer. Among the sports he covers are now are tennis, skiing, swimming and running. He has a degree in philosophy from Dartmouth, a decent forehand and a penchant for checkers.
Mike Lowe is a Massachusetts native who feels he's lived long enough in Maine (since 1982) to have roots here. He graduated from Boston University and has worked in New Hampshire and Maine, covering everything from the Little League World Series to the Summer Olympics. When he has free time – Ha! – he likes to read, collect comic books and watch the grass grow from his hammock.
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