BANGOR — This wasn’t Hickory High School playing in Butler Fieldhouse, but Forest Hills’ 55-48 victory over Central Aroostook at the Bangor Auditorium on Saturday sure felt like a scene out of Hoosiers.

For the third straight year, Washburn will play Western Maine champion Richmond in the state title game.

The Bobcats hope for a half-court game to neutralize Washburn’s pressure defense. Alyssa Pearson and Ciarra Lancaster will be instrumental in that strategy. The two are bookends to 6-foot center Jamie Plummer, who has scored over 1,000 points in her career and is capable of taking over a game on her own.

Kyle Fletcher has two more years of high school and American Legion baseball to achieve his goal of becoming a DIvision I player. But he’s not standing pat.

Derick Ouellette was the difference-maker in his team’s 40-33 win against rival Valley for the Western Maine Class D championship.

Neither Cony coach Karen Magnusson nor Bangor coach Katie Herbine is putting much stock in the regular season meeting between their teams on Jan. 4. But the fact remains that Bangor won 64-46 on Cony’s home floor and held a 51-24 advantage in rebounds. The teams play again tonight for the Eastern Maine Class A championship at the Augusta Civic Center and the thinking is Cony is a much improved team.

AUGUSTA — Hyde’s plan to stop Richmond’s Jamie Plummer worked even better than Coach Richard Polgar thought it would. But the Phoenix had no answer for Plummer’s teammates. Seniors Alyssa Pearson and Ciarra Lancaster took up the scoring slack and all the Bobcats played strong defense on their way to a 43-36 victory Thursday morning at the Augusta Civic Center.