Sports in brief …

Ashland to hold alumni basketball event
    It’s being called both “End of an Era” and “One More Time Down the Court.” Either way, an alumni basketball event is being held Saturday, March 13 at the Bobby Goding Gymnasium in Ashland from 4-7 p.m. The event is taking place as the gymnasium, which was built in 1950, is being demolished this summer with the new school being constructed.
    Anyone who has ever played basketball at Ashland is encouraged to attend the get together. Call 435-3481 for more information. Baseball umpire clinics
    The Northern Maine Board of Approved Baseball Umpires will hold clinics for new members beginning tonight. Interested individuals should meet in the North Classroom in Weiden Hall on the University of Maine at Presque Isle campus at 6 p.m. tonight.
    The cost of the clinic is $40, which includes the rule book. Future class dates will be discussed.
    Those passing the board test and mechanics session will be eligible to begin working this spring at the middle school level.
    For more information, contact board interpreter Bill Casavant at 768-9475 during the day or 764-0810 after 5 p.m.
All-star games set for Thursday
    The Aroostook League will host the senior all-star basketball games at Caribou High School Thursday, March 4.
    The girls game will tip off at 5:30 p.m., followed by the boys game at 7 p.m. The event serves as a  fundraiser for the Aroostook League Scholar-Athlete Program.
PIHS athletes honored
    The Presque Isle High School Varsity Club and Big Cheese Pizza are pleased to congratulate Erica Hemphill, Chandler Guerrette and Issac LaJoie for being selected as athletes of the week for the week of Feb. 8-12 and Hallie Bartlett, Adam Curtis and Travis Dyer for earning the honor for Feb. 15-20.
    Hemphill finished fourth in the 50-yard freestyle event at the state swim meet. Guerrette had 26 points to lead the girls varsity basketball team past Waterville in the quarter finals of the Eastern Maine Class B basketball tournament. LaJoie has collected 23 points this season to help the ice hockey team to a third-place finish in the Eastern Maine Class B ice hockey standings.
    Bartlett had a fifth-place finish in Nordic freestyle at the Class B State Skiing Championships. Curtis  finished fifth in the skimeister competition at the Class B State Skiing Championships. Dyer scored 14 points in the boys varsity basketball team’s Eastern Maine Class B quarter-final game against Medomak Valley.