Erskine Academy senior Garrett Holt made no excuses for the behavior that caused him to sit out Thursday night's first quarter against Gardiner.

"The game before I didn't act accordingly," Holt said. "As a good coach should do, (Ben Willoughby) sat me, because that's what our program does. We don't let any of that stuff go on."
Holt entered the game in the second quarter and helped lead the Eagles back from a 14-6 deficit. He scored four points in the second quarter, four in the third and nine in the fourth, including five points in the final six seconds to give his team a 39-37 win.
"Last week we lost two games by one point," Willoughby said. "In both of those games we had opportunities in the fourth quarter. I was thinking if there was any luck, could we please come across it."
The game was the regular-season finale for both teams and will likely cause Gardiner and Erskine to trade places in the Eastern Maine Class B tournament standings. Should Gardiner finish 14th, it would face the No. 3 team which could be Caribou or possibly Rockland. Erskine will likely move into the 13th spot vacated by Gardiner and would face the No. 4 team which could be Rockland or Hermon.
Erskine's Devon Veilleux didn't score a point in Thursday night's win, but he made one of the biggest plays of the game when he forced Eric Goodwin into a turnover along the left sidelines with just under four seconds left. That gave Holt a chance for his game-winning layup.
"It's nice to see the seniors come up with those big plays at the end of the season," Willoughby said of Veilleux's play.
The Tigers went cold when Erskine went to a 1-3-1 zone in the second quarter and managed just 11 points over the next 16 minutes. "We were moving (the ball) around the perimeter, but we weren't attacking the gaps," Gardiner coach Jason Cassidy said.
The Tigers did finally get the ball into the gaps but missed on three or four short jumpers in the lane.
The Tigers were hurt when senior Donnie Cray went to the floor with an eye injury in the second quarter. Cray returned in the second half, but by that time the Tigers had lost the lead and their momentum.