Orono-Old Town basketball tickets available Saturday morning
ORONO — The remaining tickets for next Wednesday night’s Class B North boys basketball showdown between Orono and Old Town will be sold from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday in the main lobby of Orono High School.
The tickets are $4 each as long as they last Saturday morning. Once those tickets are gone, the game will be sold out.
Orono (14-3) is ranked first in Class B North entering the game, which is a mutual regular-season finale. Old Town (14-2) is ranked second with a home game Saturday night against Washington Academy of East Machias before the rematch against Orono.
Old Town won its first game against Orono this winter, 65-53 on Jan. 5 at MacKenzie Gymnasium in Old Town.
Bangor golfer fails to make cut in debut on Web.com Tour
Bangor’s Jesse Speirs missed the cut in his debut as a member of the Web.com Tour after concluding his second round with a bogey and double bogey at the Panama Claro Championship at the Panama Golf Club in Panama City.
The 29-year-old Speirs shot a five-over-par 145, which tied him for 108th place. There were 144 golfers entered in the event.
The cut was projected at two-over par.
Speirs was just three shots off the lead at one point on Friday as he was two-under par after 12 holes. But he bogeyed five of the last six holes to finish the first day at three-over par 73.
On Friday, he birdied the fourth hole but bogeyed the next three holes to fall to five-over par.
He rebounded with a birdie at No. 11 and an eagle at No. 12. He bogeyed the 13th hole but birdied the 15th hole to find himself at two-over par before he bogeyed No. 17 and double bogeyed the 18th hole.
The second of 24 events on the Web.com Tour is the Club Colombia Championship Feb. 4-7 at the Country Club de Bogota in Colombia.
Pistons owner pledges $10M to help crisis in Flint, Mich.
Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores announced Friday the first grants from a $10 million campaign to address the public health water crisis in Flint, Mich., that continues to gather international headlines.
Gores, a Flint native, is leading a private sector initiative that has pledged at least $10 million to a broad range of short- and long-term initiatives to help address the crisis in Flint after the drinking water was contaminated with lead.
The grants include a contribution to the children’s health fund co-founded by Flint pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, one of the first responders to recognize and draw attention to the crisis.
Flint’s water has forced the city’s residents to use bottled water for drinking, bathing and cooking. A federal state of emergency has been declared.