AUGUSTA

The Augusta Civic Center was not kind to the Pine Tree Academy basketball teams on Monday, as the Breakers dropped a pair of Class D South quarterfinal matchups.

In the girls game, Pine Tree Academy struggled to score, falling to third-seeded Vinalhaven, 39-24.

Immediately after that contest, the Breaker boys took the court, facing seventh seeded Islesboro. Pine Tree Academy, the No. 2 seed, ran into an Eagles buzz-saw named Forrest Boucher in a 66-50 loss.

Girls

Trailing 11-5 after a quarter, PTA (10-9) forced Vinalhaven (15-4) to miss shot after shot. The Vikings went 1-of-11 from the floor in the second quarter as the Breakers found some flow behind guards Alex Goodman and Adrianna DePalma.

Back-to-back buckets by DePalma off setups from Goodman gave PTA a 12-11 lead before Vinalhaven’s Deja Doughty put home the Vikings’ only points of the frame to send the teams to the locker room with Vinalhaven on top, 13-12.

More impressively for the Breakers was the inside defensive job on Vinalhaven standout Gilleyanne Davis- Oakes.

“Oakes didn’t score at all in the first half, and it was our goal to lock down the middle,” said PTA coach Josh Dayen after his team held the Vikings to just 17- percent shooting (4-of-22) in the first half but made only 5-of-19 (26 percent). “We had some good looks, but just didn’t make enough shots.”

Goodman, who led PTA with 18 points, seven rebounds and three assists, tied the game at 17 with a 3- pointer with 4:27 left in the third quarter. But, the Breakers lost track of Davis- Oakes, who led the Vikings to a 26-20 lead through 24 minutes.

“Alex was really working to score and found some girls for some good looks,” said Dayen, who watched Davis-Oakes get hot. “We have struggled on that weakside cut, and she created more space for her teammates and herself. We adjusted, but she worked hard and dropped 12 on us.”

Davis-Oakes continued to find room in the final quarter, adding nine points to her game-high 21 points. She also pulled down 13 boards.

PTA had one more push, with Goodman netting four quick points to get the Breakers to 30-24 with 4:07 left. But, Vinalhaven scored the final nine points to set up and a semifinal on Thursday against seventh-seeded Valley.

Vinalhaven was 8-of-10 from the free-throw line, with Paige Dennison adding seven points and Doughty five points, five rebounds, three steals and three assists.

DePalma was a force on defense for the Breakers, picking up eight steals in the loss.

Boys

Islesboro’s first two possessions set the tone for a frustrating loss for PTA in its first quarterfinal appearance in Augusta in a decade.

Boucher drove the lane for two quick points, followed 30 seconds later when he stepped back and drained a 3-pointer on his way to a game-high 29 points.

The win for the Eagles sets up a semifinal on Thursday with No. 3 Seacoast Christian, while the second-seeded Breakers closed out the season with a 12-7 mark .

“We played them one time this year at home and he had 37 against us,” said PTA coach Trevor Schlisner of Boucher. “He is the one that makes the engine run. He did a good job involving a lot of his team. Today, a lot of guys stepped up, and for us on offense we didn’t move the ball well.”

Boucher had seven points in the first quarter and six more in the second as Islesboro (12-6) claimed leads of 15-9 after one and 26-13 at the half.

PTA fell behind by 16 points, 37-21 late in the third, but the Breakers made a run to close the frame, out-scoring the Eagles 9-2 to get to 39- 30. Jalen Tamalea led the charge, scoring eight of his team-high 18 points in the third for the Breakers.

But, Islesboro refused to buckle, answering every PTA attempt to draw closer with a big bucket or steal. The play was fast and furious in the fourth quarter as the teams combined for 47 points. The Breakers received eight fourth-quarter points from Ales Milano.

“One of our best shooters all year was Ales Milano, a player in his first year of organized basketball who was our second leading scorer this year, and we just didn’t get him the ball enough,” said Schlisner.

Jonathan Runnion-Bareford had nine points for Islesboro, with John Gotham adding eight in the second half. Avery Grindle had a game-high 13 rebounds and chipped in seven points. The Eagles were 23-of-40 from the floor (56 percent) and 15-of-24 from the charity stripe.

Alex Schlisner and Jean- Pierre Tashamala each scored nine points for PTA, while Milano finished with 12. Tamalea pulled down 11 boards, while Schlisner dished out four assists and had four steals.

No. 3 Vinalhaven 39,
No. 6 PTA 24

Class D South Girls Quarterfinal
At the Augusta Civic Center
PTA— 5784—24
Vinalhaven — 11 2 13 13 — 39
PTA — Stephie Kayumba 1-0-2, Lauren Krueger 0-0-0, Adriana DePalma
2-0-4, Alex Goodman 7-2-18, Stacy
Castellon 0-0-0, Natalie Marden 0-0-
0, Margorie Johnson 0-0-0, Renee
Picard 0-0-0, Victoria Edmond 0-0-0,
Rachel Steeves 0-0-0. Totals — 10-2-
24.
Vinalhaven — Ashlyn Littlefield 1-2-
4, Shyler Sanborn 0-0-0, Gilleyanne
Davis-Oakes 10-1-21, Paige Dennison 2-2-7, Deja Doughty 1-3-5, Hannah Noyes 1-0-2. Totals — 15-8-39.
3-point field goals — (PTA) Alex
Goodman 2; (V) Paige Dennison.
Records — Vinalhaven 15-4, PTA 10-
9.
Note –—PTA’s season is completed.

No. 7 Islesboro 66,
No. 2 PTA 50

Class D South Boys Quarterfinal
At the Augusta Civic Center
Islesboro — 15 11 13 27 — 66
PTA — 9 4 17 20 — 50
Islesboro — Avery Grindle 3-1-7,
Jonathan Runnion-Bareford 2-4-9,
Jake Pellagrino 1-3-6, Forrest Boucher 12-3-29, Brett Start 1-2-5, Devin
Small 0-0-0, John Gotham 4-0-8,
Patrick Kehoe 0-2-2, Alexander Howell 0-0-0. Totals — 23-15-66.
PTA — Jean-Pierre Tashamala 3-3-9,
Jalen Tamalea 6-5-18, John Krebs 0-
0-0, Alex Schliser 3-0-9, Zach Owen
0-0-0, Jared Tamalea 1-0-2, Ales
Milano 4-2-12, Najee Jean-Louis 0-0-
0, Isaac Stong 0-0-0, Evan Owen 0-0-
0. Totals — 17-10-50.
3-point field goals — (I) Forrest
Boucher 2, Jonathan Runnion-Bareford, Jake Pellagrino, Brett Start;
(PTA) Alex Schlisner 3, Ales Milano 2,
Jalen Tamalea.
Records — Islesboro 12-6, PTA 12-
7.
Note — PTA’s season is completed.