Alumni team with include former BRHS boys and girls players against current seniors

Tue, 02/27/2018 - 7:30am

BILL PEARSON

Twelve former Boothbay Region High School male and female alumni basketball players are returning to Porter Memorial Gymnasium. The alumni will take on a mixed team of BRHS boys and girls seniors in a charity basketball game benefiting Project Graduation.

The alumni game will tip off at 6 p.m. Friday, March 16 at BRHS. The alumni team includes Adam Sterrs, Evan Hepburn, Trevor Swope, Mike Taylor, Mike Leighton, Bobby Deetjen, Tyler Tibbetts, Dan Williams, Lisa Arsenault, Ali Hartley, Shaylee Sibley, Heidi Davis, Meghan Smith and Allison Crocker. The high school team includes mostly current seniors who played on the varsity teams this winter. The high school roster includes varsity basketball players Cameron Crocker, Sam Burnham, Eli Gudroe, Jacob Wilson, Kyle Ames, Sydney Meader and Page Brown. The high school team also includes four seniors who are former Seahawk basketball players: Jay Hasch, Tori Morin, Summer Chamberlin, Jackie McLoon and Maddy McLellan.

The game is being organized by Project Graduation volunteers Amy Grant, Leisha MacDougall and Julie Roberts. Grant proposed the idea after discussing it with her boyfriend Patrick Michael who mentioned a past alumni football game which raised $1,200.

"Everybody thought it would be a great idea for a fundraiser. It's a good way to get the community out on a March Friday night and raise money for a good cause," Grant said.

The committee had an easier time finding male alumni players than female. The committee began reaching out to past Seahawk players on Facebook and at high school basketball games.

Grant spotted two female alumni while selling 50/50 raffle Project Graduation tickets at the Boothbay girls’ Mountain Valley Conference championship game.

"I recruited one at the MVC game at the door and spotted another one in the stands who told me she was hoping a game like this would be put together," Grant said.

Project Graduation is a program offered by many U.S. highs schools — in which organized, adult-supervised and alcohol-free activities are offered as part of a post-graduation party — as an alternative to student-run events involving alcoholic beverages or other drugs.