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Article: Bangor wins; Oxford Hills nips Lawrence Rams, Vikings to meet Friday
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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BANGOR - When you play against a Mike McGee-coached Lawrence
squad, nothing is ever easy.
Not even if you're the No. 1 seed - as Oxford Hills of South Paris
was in Saturday's Eastern Maine Class A boys quarterfinal. Not even
if it seems that you've blown the game open with a 16-1 third-
quarter run - as Oxford Hills did.
And not even if you're leading by seven with three minutes to go,
and you've dominated play for the entire second half.
Oxford Hills did all those things ... shot 52.7 percent from the
floor ... and still had to out-grit the gritty Bulldogs down the
stretch en route to a 56-54 win at the Bangor Auditorium.
The 18-1 Vikings take on No. 4 Bangor (15-5) in Friday night's
8:35 ...