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PORTLAND — It’s another trip to a state final for the Oceanside girls basketball team. And this one couldn’t have been earned more emphatically.

Abby Stackpole scored 20 points, Olivia Breen added 15, and the second-seeded Mariners rode a record-breaking shooting performance to a 68-51 win over top-seeded Gray-New Gloucester in the Class B South final Friday at the Portland Expo.

Oceanside (20-1), which also got 13 points from Addie Poland and nine from Grace Mackie, will play in the Class B championship game for the third time in five seasons. The Mariners won titles in 2022 and 2024 and lost in the regional final in 2023 and 2025. They’ll play North champion Lawrence next Friday at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.

“There aren’t even words to describe it,” said senior Renee Ripley, who scored six points and had eight rebounds on her 18th birthday. “Being here four years in a row is just amazing and something I’m so proud of. My program, my girls, everybody really stepped up today.”

The Mariners bettered their own historic standards. Oceanside hit 12 3-pointers on 19 attempts, setting a Class B South tournament record for 3s in a game as they broke their record of 11 set last season. They also made 28 3-pointers in the regional, passing their record of 25 from 2025.

“Just to see the swish and feel it, it’s great,” said Stackpole, who hit four of the 3s, while Poland and Mackie made three apiece and Ripley and Breen each sank one. “It can be anybody. If someone’s not shooting well, the other person will be.”

The Patriots (19-2) got 33 points from tournament MVP Abbey Steele but had no chance against the 3-point barrage. Gray-New Gloucester tried to take Breen away down low, but the Mariners feasted on the deep looks they were given as a result.

“I don’t think any team in (Class) A would have beaten them. Not today,” Gray-New Gloucester coach Mike Andreasen said. “They were just outstanding.”

What allowed the Mariners to be that sharp on such a big stage?

“Experience,” coach Matt Breen said. “They’ve been around. There have been so many that have done so much coming up through that these guys learned from, watched their work ethic and saw what it took to be good.”

On Friday, it was Stackpole’s turn. She had eight points in the first quarter as Oceanside took an 18-9 lead, and then eight more in the third as the Mariners built on a 38-18 halftime lead. Oceanside led by as many as 24 points, and never by fewer than 14 after the break.

“My shooting can be off-and-on some nights, but if I think about, it I don’t shoot well. So tonight, I just shot it and didn’t think about it,” Stackpole said. “After my first three went in, I knew this was going to be a good game.”

For her whole team.

“If one of us can’t do it, someone’s going to step up. I had trust in my teammates with that,” Breen said. “We all got to step up today.”