SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan boys basketball team climbed over .500 Saturday, and it beat another Class A North challenger from a season ago to do it.

Cam Barnes hit a trio of 3-pointers and scored 17 points as the Indians topped Nokomis, 52-47, in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference matchup of two A North quarterfinalists from last year.

Marcus Christopher added 10 points for Skowhegan, which trailed 28-27 at halftime but limited the Warriors to just 19 points the rest of the way. Matush Prokop had eight points and Colby Espy had seven, with Espy hitting a pair of 3-pointers in the victory.

Josh Perry scored 17 points for Nokomis (1-2), while Zach Hartsgrove had 14 and Josh Smestad added nine.

Last season, Nokomis reached the regional quarterfinals before falling to Oceanside. Skowhegan reached the semis before losing to Messalonskee.

FOREST HILLS 69, GREENVILLE 59: The Tigers earned their fifth straight win to open the season with the victory over rival Greenville in Jackman.

Parker Desjardin, a 5-foot-3 freshman guard, finished with a game-high 30 points — including six 3-pointers and a perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line — and 10 rebounds to lead Forest Hills (5-0). Brandon Gilboe added 13 points in the win, while Ken VitoCruz had 10.

Evan Bjork finished with 13 for Greenville (0-2).

TEMPLE 58, NYA 44: Micah Riportella scored 18 points and Nikola Kevic added 16 points as the Bereans prevailed in Waterville.

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MCI 51, CARIBOU 49: Sydney Farrar scored 15 points to lead the Huskies to the Class B non-conference win in Caribou.

April McAlpine added 14 points for MCI (2-0). Searra Herbert led Caribou (1-2) with 21 points.

ERSKINE 52, CONY 35: Jordan Linscott’s double-double lifted the Eagles to the KVAC A victory in South China, their first win of the season.

Linscott scored 11 points and added 11 rebounds and seven steals for Erskine (1-2). Joanna Linscott scored nine points for the Eagles and Lydia Boucher chipped in with seven.

Cari Hopkins scored 10 points for the Rams (0-3). Allee Cloutier and Linda Hodgkins netted five apiece.

HALL-DALE 37, WISCASSET 26: Ellie Dekker and Kayla Searles scored eight points apiece to lift the Bulldogs to the Mountain Valley Conference victory in Farmingdale.

Cat Kincaid scored seven points and grabbed 19 rebounds for Hall-Dale (2-1), while Sabrina Freeman had 11 boards and Olivia Bourque had five blocks.

Grace Webber scored 10 points and Maeve Blodgett scored eight for the Wolverines (0-3).

GREENVILLE 47, FOREST HILLS 36: Jess Pomerleau scored a game-high 18 points to help the Lakers earn the East/West Conference win in Jackman.

Tiegan Murray had 11 points for Greenville (1-1), which also got seven points from Halle Pelletier and Morgan Noyes.

Alex Lessard scored 12 points for the Tigers (1-3), while Miranda Shelley had nine and Demi Gerioux had eight.