'Tough Love' Approach Helps Penquis' Hamlin Reach 300 Wins

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MILO - Three hundred victories later, little has changed in how Tony Hamlin endeavors to get across the finer points of basketball to his players.

"If there is a difference, it's that I'm a little less naive now," said Hamlin, who earned coaching win No. 300 on Dec. 29 when Penquis Valley defeated Stearns of Millinocket. "Now I know how little I really know."

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'Tough Love' Approach Helps Penquis' Hamlin Reach 300 Wins

Most of Hamlin's players past and present know better, because whether they have come from Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Morse High in Bath, South Portland High or Penquis, in his hometown, Hamlin's coaching lessons have been absorbed to good effect.

Seventeen of his 22 full se...

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