The Boothbay Region High School boys basketball Seahawks team played its first game in front of the home crowd in 17 days on January 7 in a 59-33 victory over the Wiscasset Wolverines.

On December 19, the team’s last appearance at Porter Memorial, the Seahawks survived for an epic 92-87 double overtime win over Spruce Mountain.

Having only played one regular season game in the new year, a 76-33 victory at Mt. Abram on Saturday, the Seahawks again were plagued with the foul bug in the not so impressive win over a Wiscasset club that only got out of single digits in one quarter.

Before the first quarter was half over, both John and Evan Hepburn were sitting with two fouls, with Evan scoring two points and John being held scoreless for the first half. After the lone Hepburn hoop of the half, Julian Aponte scored inside on a pass from Evan to give Boothbay a sluggish 4-3 lead they would never relinquish. Aponte scored twice more in the quarter and would finish with nine points. Bradley Drummond scored in between Aponte baskets as the Seahawks led 12-6 after eight minutes.

A three-pointer banked in from the top of the key by Aponte to start the second quarter and another three-pointer by Aaron Dickinson after a hoop in the lane by Andrew Hallinan put the Seahawks up by a dozen. After a pair of free throws from Wiscasset, Drummond got behind the press for a hoop and Nick Gorey hit one of two from the line before the visitors ended the half with three-pointer to trail 23-13 at the break.

The Seahawks opened the third quarter as well with a three-pointer as Nick Kilgus hit from the left corner followed by John Hepburn's first hoop of the night.
Andrew Hallinan would pace the Seahawk attack with 13 points with John Hepburn finishing with 12. For the Wolverines Travis Padilla led with nine points.

The win on Tuesday night kicks of a busy week, as the Seahawks are scheduled to host Hall-Dale on Wednesday night, January 8 and then travel to Madison on Friday, Jan. 10 and then turn around and play a make up game at Carrabec on Saturday afternoon, January 11.