Hannah Moholland scored 17 points, 10 coming in the second period helping Richmond to a 47-16 Mountain Valley Conference basketball win over Wiscasset Middle High School Saturday at Wiscasset.

The Wolverines kept the game close through the first two periods. The Bobcats were up 14-5 after one period and 30-14 at the half.

Kateleen Trask finished with a team-high eight points for Wiscasset. She swished in the first of her two, three-point baskets on the Wolverines' first possession of the game.

Bryannah Shea’s three at 4:02 put the Bobcats ahead 6-3 and started an 11-0 run. Zoe Waltz finally answered for the Wolverines catching a pass from Sydnie Thayer and dribbling the length of the court and scoring seconds before the buzzer sounded ending the period.

The Bobcats outscored the Wolverines 16-9 in the second period. Thayer pulled her team within four points with a three-pointer two minutes into the period. Lancaster’s basket at 4:12 put RHS up 18-8. The Bobcats were starting to pull ahead when Waltz swished in a three. Trask then banked in her second three making the score 24-14. Moholland went to work and hit a pair of threes.

Richmond slowed the pace in the second half outscoring Wiscasset 5-2 in the third period. Wiscasset offense was quiet until the 2:50 mark. Trask carried the ball, cut to her right near the baseline, pulled up and hit a nice jump shot, the only points the Wolverines scored in the second half.

Lancaster finished with 14 for the Bobcats, all of which came in the first half.

The Bobcats made 10 of 16 free throw attempts. The Wolverines never went to the foul line.

’Cats by a whisker

The Wolverine jayvee team came close to picking up its first win of the season. It lost to Richmond 25-20 in a real nail-bitter.

The score was 10-9, Richmond’s favor at the half. The Bobcats led 21-11 after three periods. Wiscasset then rallied in the last eight minutes outscoring its guests 9-4.

With the Bobcats up 23-17, freshman Latisha Wright hit a huge three-point basket for the Wolverines with 52 ticks left on the clock score – 23-20.

Paige Lebel then went to the foul line and hit both ends of a 1:1 to salt this one away for the Bobcats.

WMHS will host Monmouth, Wednesday, Jan. 30 – Senior Night and the team’s last home game of the year.