Despite the snow that refuses to go away, spring really is right around the corner. But, before closing the book on the winter sports season, the Lakes Region Weekly is taking a look back at the Lake Region girls basketball team’s run to the Class B Western title and the state championship game.

quarterfinals

4 reaches for ball

Lake Region senior guard Krysti Leach tries to wrest the ball from Wells’ Brooke Stevens during the top-ranked Lakers’ win over No. 9 Wells in a Western Class B quarterfinal game Feb. 19.

Staff photo by Harmony Motter

44 and 11

Lake Region’s Morgan McClean and Wells’ Megan Blier both go for the ball during Lake Region’s 50-43 win over Wells in a Class B quarterfinal game at the Portland Expo.

Staff photo by Harmony Motter

Regional finals

Laker 6 (or Laker 6 raw)

Lake Region’s Krysti Leach (4) holds the net from one of the baskets at the Civic Center as she watches with some of her teammates as the rest of the Lakers cut down the nets at the other end after Lake Region won the Class B Western title with a win over Falmouth on Feb. 23.

Staff photo by Mike Higgins

Laker 7

Laker teammates Renee Nicholas (22) and Erica Webb share the Civic Center net as they wait for the awards presentation after winning the Class B Western championship on Feb. 23.

Staff photo by Mike Higgins

State final

10 again or 10 again 2

Lake Region sophomore guard Abby Hancock moves the ball up the floor in the Class B state title game against Waterville in Bangor.

Staff photo by Harmony Motter

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Lake Region senior guard Krysti Leach is the picture of determination as she handles the ball in the Class B state title game against Waterville on Feb. 29.

Staff photo by Harmony Motter

blonde girl

Lake Region forward Morgan McClean was one of eight sophomores on the Laker squad that won the Western regional title this year.

Staff photo by Harmony Motter

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