Machias freshman guard Aubrey Wood was dealing with an ankle injury on Wednesday, but that didn’t stop her and her Bulldogs teammates from earning a trip to the Class D North title game.
Wood led Machias with 18 points, including eight critical ones in the fourth quarter, to help her team pull away late and beat Central Aroostook 47-38 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor
“She’s overcome a real bad ankle injury she got yesterday in practice,” Machias coach Scott Reynolds told WHOU’s Dale Duff after the win. “We thought she’d be about 25 to 50% coming into the game.”
Wood said she was “trying to go 100%” but of course wasn’t there given her injury.
That didn’t stop her from playing “an extraordinary game,” according to her coach.
And it helped the Bulldogs beat the returning regional champs from Central Aroostook of Mars Hill.
“They are a physical team. We had to battle hard,” Wood said.
The freshman guard is a young leader on a young team. The Bulldogs don’t have a single senior on their team.
Sophomore Olivia Reynolds added 12 points for the Bulldogs and Sophomore Loretta Roichardson had 10.
Harleigh Allen and Lilly Burtt led the way for Central Aroostook with 10.
“The whole crew, one through nine, came together today,” Reynolds said about the Machias team. “And being young, it took the entire village, and we got it done.”