Windjammer girls sail to victory over Mariners

ROCKPORT – The Camden Hills varsity girls hosted Oceanside Saturday in a Class A North matchup with the Windjammers taking the 66-53 win.

Camden Hills Laticia Billings, left, and Oceanside's Jillian Brooks show lots of determination and intensity as they battle for the ball. Oceanside's Raechel Joyce looks on from behind. (Photo by Ron Hawkes)

Click Here to view and or purchase from the 230 photos in this gallery


The game, scheduled at the same time as the boys were competing in Rockland, made for a smaller crowd than expected for an Oceanside and Camden Hills matchup.

The first half was just what everyone expected as the two teams battled equally for the most part with Oceanside taking the 13-11 first quarter lead and Camden Hills heading into the halftime break with a 30-25 lead. The third quarter seemed to be all Camden as they outscored the Mariners 23-13 to take a 53-38 lead into the fourth quarter where they went on to the win.

Camden Hills Lauren Miller (15) closes in on Oceanside's Gabby Simmons (13) as Simmons attacks the basket. (Photo by Ron Hawkes)

Camden Hills goes to 5-5 on the season and is in 10th place in the Maine Principals' Association Heal Point Standings.  Oceanside falls to 4-6 and is in 11th place. The top two make the postseason.

Scoring for Camden Hills was, Charlotte Messer with 17 points; Kassie Krul 13; Kristina Kelly 12; Mara Dostie nine; Lauren Miller seven; MiAe DeWaard six; and Laticia Billings two.

Camden was 17-of-29 (59 percent) from the foul line and they had two 3-pointers, one each from Kelly and Messer.

For Oceanside, Gabby Simmons had a game-high 20 points; Hope Butler and Alexis Mazurek 12 each; Raechel Joyce five; and Elise Laslavic four.

The Mariners were 15-of-26 (58 percent) from the foul line and they also had two 3-pointers, both from Simmons.

Oceanside's Alexis Mazurek, left, looks to go baseline on Camden Hills MiAe DeWaard. (Photo by Ron Hawkes)

Simmons scored eight points in the first quarter to lead the Mariners. After going scoreless in the first quarter Messer put in seven for the Windjammers in the second to lead the Windjammers to the lead.

Camden Hills had seven players, led by Messer's six, put points on the board in the third quarter as they opened up the lead they would never surrender.

Camden Hills will host Morse Friday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. while Oceanside will host Waterville at 6:30 p.m.

Camden Hills Kassie Krul, left, beats Oceanside's Hope Butler and Killian Brooks as she goes up with a layup. (Photo by Ron Hawkes)

Camden Hills Charlotte Messer gets the layup off a fast break before Oceanside's Jillian Brooks can catch up. (Photo by Ron Hawkes)

Camden's Kristina Kelly makes a crazy cut as she goes baseline for a layup, (Photo by Ron Hawkes)