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AUGUSTA — The game plan for the Mt. Abram girls basketball team was simple: Stop Kaitlyn Frost.
Mission accomplished.
The top-seeded Roadrunners held Frost to seven points and cruised to a 40-17 win over Monmouth Academy in a Class D South semifinal Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center.
Frost went 2 for 12 from the field.
“We knew she’s a great player, so our first goal was to take her out of the game and let someone else beat us,” said Mt. Abram’s Abby McCarty, who scored eight points. “We are mainly a really defensive team, that’s what keeps us in the game.”
Monmouth coach Keith Derosby said nothing surprised him about the way the Roadrunners played defense. Mt. Abram defeated the fourth-seeded Mustangs (11-9) twice in the regular season, 35-32 and 42-37.
“It was a lot of what we saw in that last game, that diamond-and-1,” Derosby said. “We got the spots and looks out of it that we wanted, but sometimes the ball doesn’t fall the right way.”
Monmouth went 6 for 46 from the field.
One change Mt. Abram did make was not using a press. Breaking the press is one of the Mustangs’ strengths.
“We try to take away tendencies,” Mt. Abram coach Jason Wing said. “That’s one of the things I really enjoy about coaching.”
Stella Peterson grabbed nine rebounds for the Roadrunners, including eight on the defensive end. Mt. Abram finished with 33 rebounds. Peterson also scored 20 points.
“We played really unselfish basketball,” Peterson said. “We stuck together, the whole team, and it brought us to the win.”
The 17 points allowed were the second fewest given up by the Roadrunners this season. They held Telstar to 12 points on Jan. 2.
McCarty said the Roadrunners know they have to bring the same defensive mentality to the regional final on Saturday against No. 2 Buckfield.
“We are going to keep playing our hard defense, and we are going to motivate each other, we are going to build up the confidence, and keep shooting the ball,” McCarty said.
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