FRYEBURG — The Fryeburg Academy girls’ basketball team which has been battling illness, lack of practice and game cancellations — going more than three weeks since the team played an opponent — fell behind early and couldn’t recover on the road on Thursday night. Gray-New Gloucester outscored the Raiders 31-19 in the first half en route to a 44-30 victory at home.

“My kids will never give up, they’ll keep fighting,” Coach Billie L’Heureux told The Portland Press Herald post-game. “We’ve just been struggling a bit because of the COVID debacle and so we haven’t had a full squad yet. This is our first game since December 21. We are a little out of sync, our rotations are different every game, so we are trying to put it together. They’re going to work hard regardless.”

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