Class C West quarterfinal: Waynflete gets scare, fights off Wiscasset in quarterfinals

By Matt Boutwell

AUGUSTA—The score at the end of three quarters was Waynflete 49, Wiscasset 33. The Wiscasset fans seated behind media row were growing frustrated and it seemed all that was left was to play out the final eight minutes of the game.

However, after third-seeded Boothbay fell to sixth-seeded Old Orchard Beach by 30 points in the earlier game of the day, the smell of the upset still hung heavy in the air at the Augusta Civic Center. The final score was Waynflete 59-48, but that wasn’t indicative of how competitive the fourth quarter was.

“(In the fourth quarter) we started passing a little bit more than we had. That’s the other side of having a balanced team,” said Waynflete head coach Rich Henry half-jokingly after the game. “Our team doesn’t just see us doing something well and keep going back to it, they tend to try other things and diversify. There was a moment there we got a little shaky handling the ball late, but once we set our screens and ran our offense the right way, we got it straightened out.”

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