AUGUSTA — When the Boothbay and Carrabec girls’ basketball teams played in the regular season, neither team scored more than 27 points. It was no surprise that their Class C South quarterfinal Monday was another low-scoring affair.
Neither team scored more than nine points in a quarter, and No. 2 Boothbay beat No. 7 Carrabec 32-17 at the Augusta Civic Center. The Seahawks (18-1) will face No. 3 Monmouth (17-2) in the semifinals at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The Cobras end the season at 12-8.
“I’ve been coming up here for a long time. It’s very hard for any team to put together three flawless games. But we did a lot well,” Boothbay Coach Tanner Grover said. “We faced some adversity. That was good for us. Our best basketball is yet to come.”
The Seahawks did not score a field goal in the fourth quarter, but they didn’t need to. Ahead 23-14 after three quarters, Boothbay was content to pass the ball around the perimeter, driving the lane when given the chance and knocking down free throws. Boothbay went 9 for 13 at the line in the fourth quarter, and by holding the Cobras to three points over the final eight minutes, increased its lead.
Boothbay scored the first nine points and never trailed, leading 9-2 after one quarter and 17-6 at halftime. Throughout the game, Carrabec struggled against the bigger Seahawks, who clogged the middle with 6-foot-1 freshman Faith Blethen and 5-11 junior Nicole Clarke.
Carrabec Coach Skip Rugh attributed his team’s struggles to Boothbay’s tight defense.
“They’re just a tough defensive team,” Rugh said. “We struggled the last time. We struggled this time. We started to do OK, but we still struggled. They’re just so big and tall.”
Blethen scored 11 of her 16 points in the first half as the Seahawks built their lead. She was the only Seahawk to make a field goal. The rest of Boothbay’s points came at the line.
“Our length has been an advantage for us all year long,” Grover said. “We’re not physically strong inside, but we did make an effort to put the ball around the basket.”
Liberty Chestnut and Mickayla Willette each scored five points for Carrabec.
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