SCARBOROUGH – After squeaking into the final playoff spot by edging out Cheverus, the Gorham Rams season came to a quick and decisive end, 65-46, at the hands of the Scarborough Red Storm in their “play-in” game Tuesday night.

Scarborough (13-6, No. 6 seed) will now play No. 3 Bonny Eagle in the quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Portland Expo. Gorham finishes the year 6-13.

The Scarborough defense caused a lot of problems early for the Rams, creating turnovers and limiting scoring opportunities. The Red Storm led 16-4 after one quarter, then 28-18 at the half. In the third quarter, both Brendan Hall and Sam Terry had a radar lock on the hoop, with Hall adding seven points and Terry making three shots from beyond the 3-point arc, to outscore Gorham 24-17 and extend their lead to 52-35.

Hall led all scorers with 23 points, despite being slowed by four fouls. His eight first-quarter points, on two treys and a field goal, helped propel the Red Storm’s fast start. Terry wasn’t far behind in contribution, making four 3-point shots and contributing 20 points.

Gorham was led by Elliott Speirs with nine points and Ryan Sullivan with eight. Nick Thibeault contributed seven points and Alex Owens made two treys for six points.

Gorham’s Dan Holmes (33) is squashed by Dillon Russo before he can get off a shot down low.
Gorham’s Nick Greatorex (30) drives the baseline for two first-half points.
Nick Thibeault drives for a reverse lay up in the first half. He finished with seven points.
Elliott Speirs hits a short jumper in the first half, two of his nine, Gorham-leading points.
Gorham’s Ryan Sullivan (11) shoots over Kevin Manning in the very low post in the first half. Sullivan had six of his eight points in the second quarter.
Gorham’s Nick Greatorex gets off the final shot of the first half, but it doesn’t drop for him, leaving the score 28-18.
Brendan Hall draws a fourth foul from Gorham’s Ryan Sullivan on a strong drive to the basket.
John Wheeler draws back to fire a pass in the second half.
Sam Wessel rips away an offensive rebound that he turned into two second-half points.
Sam Wessel finishes off a strong offensive rebound by putting in a shot for two points. 
Pressure from Dan Holmes (33) and Corey Nadeau (23) of Gorham forces a rare miss by Scarborough’s Brendan Hall, who led all scorers with 23 points.
Brendan Hall puts up a jumper in the second half.
Scarborough’s Brendan Hall led all scorers in the game with 23 points.