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The Caribou Vikings and Orono Red Riots needed extra time to settle Monday night’s Class C boys basketball game, and the visiting Vikings got a huge lift from sophomore Declan Miller in overtime. The two teams were deadlocked at 47 after four quarters, and Miller gave the Vikings a boost to start overtime by taking a charge and getting the ball back for his team. Caribou capitalized on that offensive foul against Orono by scoring two points and jumpstarting a dominant 10-0 run in overtime. The Vikings went on to win 57-47. “It was a huge charge for us,” Caribou coach Kyle Corrigan said about Miller’s gutsy defensive play. “It got us the ball back. We were able to score, and kind of take the lead and get a lot of momentum.” Corrigan said he was “really proud” of Miller and noted that the team gave Miller player of the game honors in the locker room afterward. Monday night’s overtime thriller was the most recent edition of what has been a series of close contests between the two teams in recent years. Both Caribou and Orono spent years excelling in Class B North before dropping down to Class C this year as part of a statewide basketball reclassification. Caribou won the Class B state championship a year ago, and Orono won back to back state titles the two years before that. The Vikings are now 11-2 this season at the top of Class C North, and Orono is currently seventh at 7-6. Corrigan heaped praise on the Orono team, which has weathered several key injuries so far this season. “They’re so underrated right now, too, because they’re just finally healthy,” Corrigan said. “They’re a completely underrated team, and they’re different when they’re all out there. Their chemistry is so good.” Caribou’s Owen Corrigan and Orono’s Brady Hews both put up 22 points to lead all scorers. Miller had eight points in the game, and was tasked with guarding the prolific Hews on the defensive end. “I thought Declan made things hard, but you don’t just stop Brady,” the Caribou coach added. Corrigan was pleased with his team’s defensive effort but said his team was still searching for offensive consistency after battling some seasonal illnesses in its own locker room this winter. While Owen Corrigan has stepped up into a primary offensive role for the Vikings this year, Miller has shown his mettle on the defensive end. “Declan is such an energy guy, and he brings it every single day. And he’ll do whatever we ask,” Kyle Corrigan added after the win. “And today it was, ‘I don’t really care if you score, just go guard Brady, and just make things as difficult as possible. I know it’s a hard task.’ He doesn’t ask questions, he just goes out and does his job.” Caribou has gritted out several close wins so far this season, including a last second victory over reigning Class C North champion Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln. And the Vikings coach agreed that these close games during the regular season can help prepare a team for the pressures of tournament time. “These games are better than blowouts,” Corrigan added. “You grow more from games like this, and losses, than you do from 30-point wins.”

HAMPDEN, Maine — Two of the best defensive teams in Class A North squared off at the Hampden Academy gym on Monday afternoon. And it was the Camden Hills High School girls basketball team from Rockport and its swarming full-court press that prevailed as the Windjammers earned a 44-30 victory over the Broncos. The game was tied 17-17 at the half and 23-23 with 2:41 left in the third period before the Windjammers went on a decisive 14-0 run spanning the third and fourth quarters to break the game open. The win was Camden Hills’ second over Hampden Academy and the Broncos had won 10 in a row between the losses to the Windjammers. Camden Hills beat the Broncos 48-33 in Rockport on Dec. 9. The Windjammers have now won five in a row. Both teams are 11-2. The Broncos were without dominant 6-foot-4 senior center Grace LaBree due to a concussion. LaBree leads the Broncos in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots. Senior guard Leah Jones paced the Windjammers with a game-high 15 points to go with six rebounds and four steals. Junior guard Thea Laukka had 11 points, five rebounds and four steals. Senior guard Maren Johnson had five points and four rebounds and sophomore forward Gabrielle Martin came off the bench to produce four points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Junior guard Kate Adams hit three 3-pointers and paced the Broncos with 13 points, six rebounds and two steals. Fellow junior guard Aubrey Shaw had seven points, three rebounds and two steals. Senior forward Zoe Higgins came off the bench to provide four points and seven rebounds and junior guard Eve Wiles produced four points, four rebounds and two steals. Sophomore guard Chloe Watson had five rebounds. “The first half was really slow so, in the second half, we knew we had to come out and really put the pressure on their guards to force turnovers,” said Camden Hills coach Samantha Bragg. “Defense is the way we have gotten things done all year. “We harp on defense. We want to get after it so we can score some easy baskets,” Bragg added. It was the ninth time this season Camden Hills has held a team to 33 points or less. “We stepped it up in the second half,” said Laukka with Jones in agreement. “Our defense was a little iffy in the first half on our rotations and on the help in stopping their drives into the middle,” Jones said. “After halftime, we stepped it up a lot to force them to take outside shots rather than easy wide-open layups.” Laukka noted that their defense fuels their energy on offense and also said they are able to apply relentless full-court pressure from start to finish because they have a strong bench “and we’re all in shape.” “We handled their pressure well but we just couldn’t make shots. We shot 25 percent,” said Hampden Academy coach Nick Winchester. “They sped us up and when you get sped up, you can’t get into a rhythm.” He also pointed out that the Windjammers took advantage of LaBree’s absence by grabbing 18 offensive rebounds. “That wouldn’t have happened as easily if Grace was playing. That’s 18 less possessions and 18 fewer shots we would have had to defend,” Winchester said. “But we still had plenty of good looks. We just couldn’t convert them.” The Windjammers began to pull away by scoring the last seven points of the third quarter on a pair of free throws by Hannah Stowe, one by Alison Sylvester, Martin’s basket off an offensive rebound and Laukka’s jumper. Jones scored the first seven points in the fourth quarter with a 10-foot runner, a steal and traditional three-point play and another steal which eventually led to her foul line jump shot. Both teams are on the road on Friday as Hampden Academy visits Edward Little of Auburn at 6:30 p.m. and Camden Hills is at Brunswick at 6.

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When young marrieds Bob and Kathe Bartlett moved to Maine from Michigan in 1975, they planned a back-to-the-land lifestyle that would allow Bob to pursue his art. He was already a glass blower of some renown, with organic, curvy pieces — vases, bowls, paperweights, perfume bottles — in art galleries and museums around the country. The couple looked for a home in Camden, but it was more than they could afford. “We just kept going East,” Bob Bartlett recalled. They ended up in tiny, remote Gouldsboro, where, improbably, over the next four decades they would help rewrite some of the state’s alcohol sales laws; open Maine’s first winery; produce extraordinary, international-award-winning fruit wine from Maine’s iconic wild blueberries; and eventually inspire a handful of others to follow in their footsteps. “He’s the OG of Maine wild blueberry wine,” said California/Maine winemaker Michael Terrien, co-founder of Bluet, which makes sparkling blueberry wine from Maine berries. At a moment when California wines were exploding in popularity, Bob Bartlett had the curious conviction that wild blueberries, like grapes, could produce serious, singular wines that expressed terroir, or a sense of place; after all, the state’s blueberry barrens have been here for 10,000 years. But at 77 and 73, respectively, Bob and Kathe are ready to retire. Bob has had heart trouble. Cases of wine — 12 bottles each — are not as easy to heft as they used to be. Many of the people they once employed have retired themselves. “We can’t keep doing this,” he said. “We’ve run out of gas.” Last year, the couple put the winery on the market, lock, stock and French oak barrel: the production and storage space, distillery, lab and tasting room; the custom-designed equipment; the 20 acres of spruce and pine forest and granite outcroppings that surround the winery; their own sunlit, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired apartment that Bob designed and where they’ve lived for 50 years; any unsold inventory; and the name of the business — their own name: Bartlett Maine Estate Winery and Distillery. The very beginning Bob and Kathe met on a blind date at a ski hill. They rode the lift together, then Bob, apparently unaware he’d been set up, turned to her, told her it was nice to chat, and “he skied away and left me there,” Kathe recalled. “He was on thin ice after that.” Despite the inauspicious beginning, they married a few years later. Kathe was 19 and Bob 23. Not long after, like other young, free-spirited couples at the time, they got the idea to live off the land in Maine. In Gouldsboro, they grew a huge garden and planted cold-hardy wine grapes, just for themselves; they’d had fun picking grapes and making home wine in Michigan. Bob had begun building a glass studio when their new life was interrupted. He got a gig teaching glassblowing at Ohio University. A one-year appointment stretched into three. While there, the ever inquisitive Bob enrolled in an oenology class. He came back to Maine frustrated that he still wasn’t earning a good living as a glassblower. His plan to fix that? Let’s open a winery, he suggested to Kathe. There’s an old joke that goes like this: How do you earn a million dollars at a winery? You start with $2 million. The idea of two complete novices in search of a steady living opening a winery in a state that didn’t have any, in a climate that wasn’t suited to it, in a town where you couldn’t even buy fresh garlic at the store, seemed bonkers. “Her mother thought I was absolutely knockers nuts,” Bob conceded. Kathe felt differently. Bob had always been full of enthusiasms. He was an inveterate tinkerer. As a teen, he’d built a cider mill in the woods near his home. As a young man, he’d studied industrial design, been accepted to study architecture at Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio, Taliesin, and had spent a few months on an archaeology dig in Italy. He built boats and restored vintage motorcycles and cars. “Bob is an engaging personality and an engaging…