Bryce Wilcox gives the basketball teeth of the children of Monte Abram

Bryce Wilcox Listen to teasing: “Toothless” and “Who is your dentist?” – Of sections of opposite students and laughs.

Bryce Wilcox del Monte Abram obtains a basket during the semifinals of 2024 Class C South against Carrabec last February in Augusta. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Mount Abram Senior lost a right front tooth when he crashed his bicycle in a steel mailbox before being in high school.

“Terrelo,” he said.

Now, Wilcox has a removable tooth that occasionally uses while competing in sports.

“In the football season, it was a large type of teeth,” he said. “I thought, ‘there is no tooth,’ he thought it was difficult. At the beginning of basketball, I wasn’t shaking the tooth, and then I lost it, and my mother got angry a little, so I didn’t want to lose it again.”

Whether wearing the tooth or not, Wilcox is a great reason why Mount Abram is playing for the C -Class C -Weekend. The Roadrunners (20-1), who won the program First regional title last weekendFace Mattanwacook Academy (21-0) at 8:45 pm on Saturday at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.

The way to the game of the state championship was rocky for Wilcox, who received a foul at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the quarterfinals and the regional semifinal. About dirigo and Hall-Dale.

“I picked up my fifth (lack against Dirigo) quite early in the room, and I sat a couple of minutes before, which was quite frustrated (over),” Wilcox said. “The Hall-Dale game was really brutalI collected two in the first half, and then I think I got my third, as 30 seconds in the third quarter. It was only downhill from there. “

Wilcox was disappointed to spend the end of two playoff games on the bank, but said he was sure that the Roadrunners had the talent of prevailing without him.

Bryce Wilcox by Mt. Abram went to Greyson Cary de Hall-Dale in a semifinal of class C South Boys in the Augusta Civic Center on February 20. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

“Killian. “It was honestly quite special for me to see them do that, especially with me not to be able to help. It was difficult, but I was very happy for them. “

Pillsbury, a Junior shipowner, scored 26 points against Hall-Dale. Reagan Lockaby took a step forward for Mount Abram against Dirigo, scoring 23 points and grabbing nine rebounds. The second year opener Brennan Mitchell was out of most tournament week with the flu, so Harrison Thomas and Andrew Rother completed from the bank.

Wilcox did not commit faults in the final victory of the south over Monmouth and led the Roadrunners with 23 points. Instead of looking from the bank in the last quarter, I was on the floor and made 8 of 11 free throws to help seal The first regional championship of Monte Abram.

The best scorers of Mount Abram last season, Cam Frost and Payton Mitchell, graduated, and Logan Dube did not return for his senior season.

“We had a lot (talent) last year, so people filled the places quite well,” said Killian Pillsbury. “It wasn’t so bad, but he definitely lost Logan’s pain.”

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Wilcox was the third leader of Mount Abram last year. This season, he is the top scorer.

“It’s quite selfless,” said Killian Pillsbury. “Then, if you get the ball, it will return it to you or make something happen. It always seems to draw double coverage, so if you get double coverage, you will pass it or make a good play every time. “

Pillsbury leads the team in assists and has become a more prolific scorer. Others have also assumed larger roles to complete lost players.

“Reagan (Lockaby) a state champion in height jumps, so he is 6-3 and is quite athletic, so you get a great who can run and jump,” said Mount Abram coach Jeff Pillsbury. “Brennan (Mitchell) is long and was a titular midfielder in football, so he is quite athletic.”

Jeff Pillsbury said that while some players lacked university minutes, they had matched with experienced players such as Wilcox, Mitchell and Frost in the practices.

“I would like to have five guys who could play in each position, but I think they bought (their roles) quite well … we ask them to do things that do well,” said Jeff Pillsbury.

Killian Pillsbury said he felt that people underestimated Mt. Abram heading to the season. But not only the Roadrunners won the best C-Class South seed for the second consecutive year, but they did it with a better regular season record, 17-1 this year compared to 16-2 in 2023-24.

Jeff Pillsbury said he still believes that Mount Abram has not played his maximum potential and hopes that Saturday’s state final.

“What I like about them is that they fight, compete and sometimes their emotions get in the way, because they want to win,” said Jeff Pillsbury. “They like to compete, but I think chemistry is really good.”

Wilcox was part of Mount Abram’s Class C Male Football Team Championship in 2023. He said winning a state title in basketball on Saturday could overcome that.

“We had so much talent in that football team, the talent we had was ridiculous,” Wilcox said. “But, for this gold ball, I really think we had to make a good effort and really make our best.”

The women’s basketball team of Monte Abram won state championships in 1991 and 2007, but Saturday is the first state appearance of the Children’s Program.

Jeff Pillsbury said the competitive conference of Mountain Valley helped prepare the roadrunners for the postseason. The MVC has won the last five state -class C titles, which date back to 2019.

“Our community really enjoys basketball, and we have been waiting for one of these things for a while, so it would be great for children in the first place, but I think it would be quite good for our community to bring home a gold ball,” said Jeff Pillsbury.

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