MDI Boys Fall to Presque Isle 77-73 in Overtime [STATS/PHOTOS]

A.J. Lozano's banked 3-pointer with 1 second left tied the game 65-65, but ultimately the MDI Trojans fell to the Presque Isle Wildcats 77-73 in overtime in Presque Isle on Thursday, January 27th.

It was a back and forth game, with MDI leading 19-13 at the end of the 1st Quarter and Presque Isle leading 36-33 at the end of the 1st Half. The Trojans led 48-44 at the end of the 3rd Quarter.

In overtime Spencer Laurendeau had 6 points for MDI and Charlie Parker had 2 points. Presque Isle went 4-9 from the free throw line in OT, and Xavier McAtee had 7 points, Malachi Cummings 3 points and Noah Yarema 2 points.

MDI was led by Spencer Laurendeau with 23 points, with Kadin Reed having 10 points and Alex Gray and A.J. Lozano each having 10 points. The Trojans were 15-19 from the free throw line. MDI made 6 3-pointers, with Laurendau having 3 of them, and Joey Minutolo, AJ Lozano and Kadin Reed 1 each.

Presque Isle was led by Noah Yarema who had a game-high 27 points. Xavier McAtee finished with 21 points and Malachi Cummings 17 points. The Wildcats were 21-35 from the free throw line and had 2 3-pointers, 1 each by Noah Yarema and Jackson Maynard.

MDI is now 2-11 and will host Caribou on Friday, January 28th at 4:30 p.m. That game will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA, on WDEA Internet Radio, on our free downloadable APP and on any Alexa enabled device. The game will also be live-streamed on the MDI High School NFHS Channel

Presque Isle is now 8-5 and will travel down to play Ellsworth on Friday, January 28th at 3:30 p.m. That game will be live-streamed for free on 92.9 The Ticket TV

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Line Score

	1	2	3	4	OT1	T
MDI Boys	19	14	15	17	8	73
Presque Isle Boys	13	23	8	21	12	77

Box Score

MDI

#	Name	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
10	Spencer Laurendau	23	8	5	3	4	6
12	Joey Minutolo	5	2	1	1	0	0
14	Harley Henderson	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	AJ Lozano	10	3	2	1	3	4
22	Ben Lipski	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Charlie Parker	9	4	4	0	1	1
30	Jack Hodgdon	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Kadin Reed	12	4	3	1	3	4
34	Joey Wellman-Clouse	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Ethan Sosa	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Evan Ankrom	4	2	2	0	0	0
44	Alex Gray	10	3	3	0	4	4
50	John Bennett	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	73	26	20	6	15	19

Presque Isle

#	Name	PTS	FGM	2PM	3PM	FTM	FTA
10	Jensen Sargent	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Brayden Castonguay	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Dawson Beaulieu	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Noah Yarema	27	13	12	1	0	1
22	Benjamin Turner	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Jackson Maynard	7	2	1	1	2	3
30	Malachi Cummings	17	5	5	0	7	10
32	Wyatt Young	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Jack Buck	3	1	1	0	1	4
40	Xavier McAtee	21	5	5	0	11	17
42	Michael Langley	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Jack Hallett	2	1	1	0	0	0
50	Aiden Hanks	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	77	27	25	2	21	35