The Oxford Hills girls basketball team transformed a five-point lead at halftime to a 62-25 victory over Gorham to win the Class AA state championship at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Monday.
It’s the third state title for the 21-1 Vikings, who previously won gold balls in 2019 and 2020.
Gorham ends its Cinderella postseason campaign at 12-10. It entered the AA South tournament as the No. 3 seed and upset No. 1 Thornton Academy 44-41 in the regional championship game.
Gorham took an early lead and had a 12-7 edge over the Vikings at the end of the first quarter thanks to a buzzer-beating 3-pointer.
But Oxford Hills gained momentum in the second quarter, taking a five-point lead over Gorham into halftime with a score of 22-17.
But Oxford Hills used a flurry of 3-pointers in the third quarter to score 23 points in the frame and create a gap from which Gorham could not recover.
The Rams only managed to score eight points in the second half.
