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Welcome to the Mountain Valley Conference web site. Established in 1964 to serve schools in Western Maine, the charter members were Farmington High School, Gould Academy, Hall-Dale High School, Jay High School, Livermore Falls High School, Mexico High School, and Wilton Academy. We have gone through several changes over the years, and we presently have a 14-school membership. We hope our site will be a great resource for players, fans, coaches, and the media.

Hall-Dale Girls Capture Western Maine Championship

The Hall-Dale High School girls basketball team won the Western Maine Championship on Saturday night, February 25 by defeating Waynflete 43-36. The Flyers hadjumped out to a 15-10 lead after the first quarter, but the Bulldogs battled back to take a 19-18 lead heading into the locker rooms at halftime. The Bulldogs started the second half with an 11-0 run to extend their lead to 30-18 midway through the third quarter. But the Flyers would battle back to within 37-36 on a three-pointer by junior standout Martha Veroneau with 3:50 remaining in the fourth quarter. From there the Bulldogs finished the game on a 6-0 run, highlighted by a clutch offensive rebound and putback off a missed free throw by senior star Carylanne Wolfington. Veroneau was awarded the Robin Colcord Award after the game as the Western Maine girls class C tournament most outstanding player. Veroneau broke the tournament record for points scored in a tournament game with 47 in the semifinals, but in the Western Maine final Wolfington and the Bulldogs limited the junior to 16 points. Hall-Dale won their second consecutive Western Maine championship with the victory.

Madison Girls, Dirigo Boys Capture MVC Basketball Championships

The Madison Bulldogs used accurate outside shooting early in the game and a 4th quarter lock-down defense to capture the MVC Championship against Spruce Mountain on Monday at the Augusta Civic Center. Madison, who finished the regular season with a 15-3 record, had lost at Spruce Mountain 44-37 in their only regular season meeting in January. Sam Bruce led the Bulldogs in scoring with 22 points and was supported by Emily McKenney with 7. Kathryn Ventrella led the Phoenix with 20 points.

Madison goes into the Western Maine Class C as the #2 seed and will play the winner of the Lisbon/Waynflete on Tuesday, February 21st at 4:00 pm at the Augusta Civic Center. Spruce Mountain will be playing begin their first Western Maine Class B experience with a preliminary game at home against Poland on Wednesday. A victory in that game would give the Phoenix a trip to the Portland Expo to play the Leavitt Hornets.

In the boys contest, the Dirigo Cougars avenged their only loss of the season with a convincing 70-48 victory over Spruce Mountain to win the boys MVC Championship. Just last Wednesday, the Phoenix had defeated the Cougars 46-41 in the regular season finale. Dirigo had won their meeting earlier in the season. But on this night Ben Holmes came off the bench and an ankle injury to score 11 points and grab 15 rebounds to spur Dirigo to the title. MVC Player of the Year Cody St. Germaine led the Cougars with 17 points and added 11 rebounds. Josh Turbide added 11 points and Caleb Turner added 10 in a balanced Dirigo attack.

Jake Bessey was the scoring leader for Spruce Mountain with 15 points and James Barker chipped in with 8. The #2 Phoenix will play in their inaugural Western Maine Class B playoff against the winner of the Cape Elizabeth/Wells preliminary game on Saturday at 12:30 at the Portland Expo.

The Cougars will be going after their fourth staight Western Maine Class C Championship beginning on Monday evening at 8:30 at the ACC against the winner of the Sacopee Valley vs. Telstar prelim game.

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