Mt. Ararat scored the first 11 points of the game, led by 25 points at the half and beat Freeport 59-39 in a girls basketball game on Tuesday in Freeport.

Cali Pomerleau scored 17 points and Julianna Allen added 12 for the Eagles (15-2).

Maddie Cormier scored 13 and Abby Giroux had 12 for the Falcons (11-7).

WELLS 59, CAPE ELIZABETH 34: Maren Maxon scored 22 points, including four 3-pointers, and the Warriors (13-4) beat the Capers (0-12) in Wells.

Hailey Marshall added 14 points, and Payton Fazzina had seven points, eight steals and seven assists for Wells. Savannah Tardiff pulled down seven rebounds.

Mei Martinez scored 18 points and Lila Rosu-Myles added 10 for Cape Elizabeth.

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MARSHWOOD 87, NOBLE 45: Natalie Lathrop scored 21 points, Isabelle Tice added 19 and the Hawks (16-1) beat the Knights (1-6) in South Berwick.

Renee St. Pierre finished with 15 points and Emily Clark had 13 for Marshwood.

Ashley Merchant had 11 points and Taylor Gnirk 10 for Noble.

CHEVERUS 65, LEWISTON 36: Kyle Lamson scored 24 points, Addison Jordan added 12 and the Stags (12-5) beat the Blue Devils (3-14) in Portland.

Anna Goodman made three 3-pointers and scored nine points for Cheverus.

Bailey Tardif-Mockler had 12 points and Ella Beaudoin 10 for Lewiston.

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WESTBROOK 48, DEERING 37: Ava Bolden scored 10 points to lead a balanced scoring attack as the Blue Blazes (8-9) beat the Rams (2-15) in Westbrook.

Angelina Keo had 10 points for Deering.

BOOTHBAY 49, LISBON 30: Maddie Orchard scored 12 points to lead the Seahawks (5-13) past the Greyhounds (0-18) in Lisbon.

Tatum French (11 points) and Arabella Hodgdon (10) also scored in double figures and Lilly Brown finished with nine points for Boothbay.

Hannah Perron led Lisbon with nine points, and Elizabeth Ferero scored eight.

BIDDEFORD 50, BONNY EAGLE 21: Gabriella Silva had 19 points, Jordyn Crump had 11, including three 3-pointers, and the Tigers (13-4) defeated the Scots (1-16) in Biddeford.

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Biddeford opened with a 14-0 run and outscored the Scots 18-7 in the third for 43-17 lead.

Charlotte Beaulieau had eight points for Bonny Eagle.

OXFORD HILLS 61, THORNTON ACADEMY 45: Ella Pelletier scored 23 points and Gabbie Tibbetts put up 21 as the Vikings (15-2) extended their winning streak to nine games with a win over the Golden Trojans (7-10) in Saco.

Pelletier made 10 of 13 free throws, and Tibbetts drained five 3-pointers. Maddy Herrick added 11 points for Oxford Hills.

Sienna Eldred, who made 11 of 17 free throws, led Thornton with 21 points, and Brooke Bodnar scored 12.

SOUTH PORTLAND 58, PORTLAND 23: Emma Travis scored 16 points as the Red Riots (14-3) beat the Bulldogs (4-13) in South Portland.

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Destiny Peters added 10 points for South Portland.

Baleria Yugu had seven points for Portland.

EDWARD LITTLE 54, SCARBOROUGH 23: Freshmen Elizabeth Galway and Charlotte Ranger came up big to help the Red Eddies (11-6) rout the Red Storm (7-10) in Auburn.

Galway scored a 13 points and Ranger finished with nine. Layla Facchiano contributed 12 points and Alexis Creaser had 11 for Edward Little.

Avery Bastian hit two 3-pointers to lead Scarborough with six points.

YORK 57, POLAND 39: Nya Avery scored 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and the Wildcats (11-7) downed the Knights (11-6) in York.

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Maddigan Fitzgerald added 13 points for York, which recovered from a 14-9 deficit after one quarter with a 13-2 run to take a 22-16 lead into halftime.

Charlotte Grenier finished with 13 points and Payton Rose had 10 for Poland.

BOYS BASKETBALL

ST. DOMINIC 65, OLD ORCHARD BEACH 40: Jack Brocke scored 20 points, including four 3-pointers,  to lead the Saints (16-1) past the Seagulls (7-10) in Old Orchard Beach.

Taylor Varney added 18 points for the Saints, who earned their 11th straight win. 

Trot Moody scored 17 points and Brady Plante added 11 for Old Orchard Beach.

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SACOPEE VALLEY 75, NORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY 38: Bryce Stacey scored 17 points and the Hawks (4-14) beat the Panthers (0-17) in Yarmouth.

Tyler Easterbrooks and Silas Nielsen each added 14 points for Sacopee Valley.

Gage Kloza scored 17 points and Mansuk Loboka scored 12 for NYA.

SCARBOROUGH 66, EDWARD LITTLE 59: Carter Blanche had 11 of his 16 points in the third quarter as the Red Storm (8-9) rallied from a six-point halftime deficit to beat the Eddies (10-7) in Scarborough.

Will MacDonald added nine points in the third quarter on three 3-pointers and finished with 22 points for Scarborough.

Diing Maiwen had 22 points, Cedric Makelele added 16 and Akol Maiwen had 10 for Edward Little.

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FALMOUTH 67, BIDDEFORD 43: Billy Birks scored 20 points, Decland O’Brien had 12 and the Navigators (14-3) built a 42-20 lead in the first half against the Tigers (9-8) in Falmouth.

Travis Edgerton led the Tigers with 16 points.

GORHAM 62, SANFORD 55: Atticus Whitten scored 20 points, Griffin Gammon added 14 points and the Rams (6-11) held off the Spartans (5-12) in Gorham.

Brady Adams had 14 points, and Luke Gendron had 13, Dylan Gendron had 11 and Bryce Adams finished with 10 for Sanford, which challenged the Rams 44-41 over the final three quarters.

GREELY 48, YARMOUTH 38: Kade Ippolito scored 15 points to lift the Rangers (10-8) to a win over the Clippers (9-8) in Cumberland.

Luca Cimino added 12 points for Greely.

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Evan Oranellas and Robert Wolff both scored eight for Yarmouth.

CAPE ELIZABETH 58, WELLS 45: Eli Smith finished with 22 points and Owen Beaureguard and Tim Fredericks added 13 and nine points to lead the Capers (6-11) past Wells (4-13) at Cape Elizabeth.

Jeremy Therrien paced the Warriors with 11 points and Nolan Brown and Aydan Collins followed with 10 points each.

CHEVERUS 49, LEWISTON 48: Jameson Fitzpatrick scored 18 points to lead the Stags (14-3) past the Blue Devils (8-9) in Lewiston.

Leo McNabb added 10 points for Cheverus, which enters is final regular-season game as the No. 1 team in the Class AA North Heal standings.

Lewiston’s Abdirahman Dakane led all scorers with 22 points, highlighted by five 3-pointers. Adam Zeininger added 13 and Lonnie Thomas scored nine.

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THORNTON ACADEMY 75, OXFORD HILLS 66: Wyatt Benoit scored 41 points and the Golden Trojans earned their 10th consecutive win by beating the Vikings in Paris.

Benoit drained six 3-pointers and made 11 of 13 free throws. Simon Gellis contributed 13 points for Thornton (15-2).

Carter Holbrook made three 3-pointers and scored 20 points for Oxford Hills (7-10). Cam Pulkkinen added 12 points and Brady Delamater finished with 10.

YORK 67, POLAND 56: Reese MacDonald scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half as the Wildcats (18-0) pulled way from the Knights (12-5) in Poland.

Lukas Bouchard added 18 points, and Patrick Beauchesne and Callan Forbes each finished with eight for York, which finishes the regular season undefeated.

Damon Martin led Poland with 20 points followed by Nick Jamo with 13 points and Alex Mains with 12.

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SKIING

KVAC CHAMPIONSHIPS: Landon Marquis of Camden Hills and Ellie Porter of Edward Little won giant slalom races at the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference skiing championships at Black Mountain in Rumford.

Marquis won the boys race with a total time of 1 minute, 55.46 seconds. He completed his first run in 59.27 and his second in 56.19 Kaden Salsbury of Skowhegan was second in 1:56.44, Edward Little’s Carter Hill (1:56.65) and Sawyer Shaman (1:58.55) were third and fourth and Mt. Blue’s Finn Morton (1:59.56) was fifth.

Edward Little scored 783 points to win the boys team title. Camden Hills was second with 750, followed by Mt. Blue (741) and Hampden Academy (718).

Porter won the girls race in 1:59.78. She finished her first run in 1:00.83 and her second in 58.95. Haley Marquis of Camden Hills was second in 2:04.30, and Leavitt’s Sophie Simard (2:05.32), Mt. Blue’s Melina McKendry (2:05.50) and Oxford Hills’ Alyson Cash (2:07.25) rounded out the top five.

Camden Hills won the girls team title with 778 points. Mt. Blue was second with 755, followed by Edward Little (750), Oxford Hills (748) and Hampden Academy (701).

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PREP SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL

BRIDGTON ACADEMY 81, WORCESTER ACADEMY 76: Isaiah Hynson had 23 points as Bridgton Academy beat Worcester Academy in the Winter Classic Championship Sunday in Bridgton.

Ajay Lopez added 21 points, Cheick Sylla (10 rebounds) had 14 points and Joe Fitzgerald 13 points for the Wolverines.

Sylla had 20 points with 15 rebounds as Bridgton won the opener against St. Andrews 86-67 on Saturday. Isaiah Hynson added 18 points, Joe Fitzgerald had 16, Ajay Lopez had 12 and Theo Moore finished with 10 for Bridgton.

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