Maine McDonald's® Senior All Star Games
Boys/Girls • East/West
March 14-15, 2008

2008 Maine McDonald's® Senior All-Star Basketball Games

The Event

The Maine McDonald's® High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games is a salute to top senior student-athletes basketball standouts and coaches from across Maine. More than 100 individuals are honored for their achievements both on and off the basketball court at the All-Star Banquet on Friday night, March 14, and at the Games on Saturday, March 15. Net proceeds from the two-day event go to the Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Maine.

McDonald's Role      

The 2008 program marks McDonald's twentieth consecutive year as lead sponsor of this hallmark event.   In addition to underwriting the cost of planning and executing the event, the Maine McDonald's Owner/Operator Association, a collaboration of 16 local Maine McDonald's franchisees, works hand-in-hand with the Maine Association of Basketball Coaches and several sponsors to make the event possible.

MAINE McDONALD’S® HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR ALL-STAR BASKETBALL GAMES RAISES $18,500 FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF MAINE

 
BANGOR, Maine (April 15, 2008) – Organizers of the 2008 Maine McDonald’s® High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games announced today that the tournament raised a total of $18,500 for Ronald McDonald House Charities ® of Maine. This represents the largest donation in the 20-year history of McDonald’s sponsorship of the hallmark tournament. This year’s event was held at Husson College in Bangor on March 14 and 15 and honored more than 100 student-athletes from more than 60 high schools across Maine.

“Thank you to everyone– student-athletes and their families, organizers and sponsors - who came together to make this year’s event so extremely successful. This donation will go a long way in helping Ronald McDonald House Charities reach out to Maine’s children in need,” states Sheila Peabody, President of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine.  “This is fabulous news as we have never come close to this amount. I'm looking forward to next year already!”

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Maine is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help Maine children lead happier, healthier and more productive lives. Since Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine was founded by a group of McDonald’s Owner/Operators in 1989, the organization has granted more than $1.3 million to children’s organizations throughout the state.

The Maine McDonald’s® High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games weekend events began on Friday afternoon with a visit to the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor, followed by an evening awards banquet at Husson College facilitated by the Maine Association of Basketball Coaches (MABC).  

The MABC awards banquet honored the 82 high school senior boys and girls participating in the All-Star Basketball Games, 8 regional foul shooting champions, as well as 20 high school seniors named to the All-State Academic Team. Christian Larochelle of Bangor High School and Amanda Gifford of Lee Academy were selected by the Maine McDonald's Owner/Operators Association to each receive the $1,000 Maine All-State Academic Scholarship award. The prestigious Mr. and Miss Basketball trophies were awarded to Ryan Martin of Maranacook High School and Rachael Mack of Cony High School. The MABC recognized Randy Whitehouse, sportswriter for the Lewiston Sun-Journal, with the MABC Media Award. Gorham High School Basketball Coach Kevin Jenkins was honored with the MABC Bob Brown Contributor Award.

Saturday’s tournament play was heralded with the State Foul Shooting competition.

Megan McDevitt of Greely High School brought in a perfect 50 out of 50, winning the Maine State Foul Shooting competition for the girls. Josh Gilbert of Messalonskee High School won the boys Foul Shooting Championship title in a shoot-out with Presque Isle’s Russ Mortland.

In the opening game of the All-Star tournament, the Girls C/D East Senior All-Star Team took it to the hoop and defeated the Girls C/D West All-Star Team by a score of 70 to 62. Rachel Foster of Houlton High School led the way for the East with  24 points.  She was 11 for 15 from the field. Bailey Davis of Telstar High School led the West team with 11 points.  

In the second game of morning play, the Girls A/B East Senior All-Star Team defeated the Girls A/B West All-Star Team by a score of 62-53. Hillary Laferriere of John Bapst High School led the way for the East team with 18 points. Laferriere was 8 for 12 at the foul line. Renee Nicholas of Lake Region High School led the West team with 17 points. Nicholas sunk 7 out of 8 free throws.

After a high-energy half-time performance by cheerleading squads from The Maine Event that featured Ronald McDonald himself, it was back to tournament action.

The Boys A/B East Senior All-Star Team defeated the Boys A/B West Senior All-Star Team by a score of 77-76. Lee Suvlu of Bangor High School led the way for the East with 18 points. Kyle Donovan of Deering High School led the West team with 16 points and was 5 for 5 from the free throw line.  

In the closing game of the tournament, the Boys C/D West Senior All-Star Team defeated the Boys C/D East All-Star Team by a score of 66-65. Sam LeClerc of Winthrop High School led the way for the West with 11 points. Sam Bell of Calais High School led the East team with 15 points.

Additional sponsors who made the 2008 Maine McDonald High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games possible were Hannaford, McCain Foods, Olympia Sports, Eagle Franchise Funding, Martin Brower, Inc. and WLBZ-2 Bangor and WCSH-6, Portland, Maine’s NBC affiliate stations.

The 2008 Maine McDonald's High School Senior All-Star Basketball Games marks McDonald’s 20th consecutive year as lead sponsor of this event.  Net proceeds from the Games benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities  (RMHC) of Maine.  

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