HAMILTON, NY — Terrance Mitchell scored a game-high 24 points and Sean McNally added 20 points and nine rebounds to lead the University of Maine to a 76-66 win over Colgate in men’s college basketball action Thursday night.

Maine (3-3) trailed 32-31 at halftime, but the Black Bears shot 55 percent in the second half, including 4-for-7 from the 3-point line, to take the lead. 

Gerald McLemore added 11 points and Murphy Burnatowski and Nunior Bernal seven points apiece for the Bears. Troy Barnies tallied two points, four rebounds, two assists and a block off the bench. Yaw Gyawu and Ben Jonson led Colgate (0-7) with 17 points apiece.

Bowdoin 71, Bates 67

BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College men’s basketball team held off a
late rally by Bates to take a 71-67 non-conference victory at Morrell
Gymnasium on Thursday evening. The win improves the Polar Bears to 4-1
this season while the Bobcats fall to 3-2 overall.

Bowdoin gained an early cushion thanks to a strong first-half
performance by Mark Phillips, who connected on all five of his attempts.
A Phillups lay-in sparked a 10-0 spurt for the Polar Bears, who led by
as many as 17 points late in the period and settled for a 37-25 lead at
intermission thanks to a running jumper at the buzzer by Mike Hauser.

The Polar Bears maintained the lead for the entire second half, with the
margin bouncing between 8-13 points for the majority of the period until
a late surge by the Bobcats.

Trailing 59-46 with six minutes to play, Bates rolled off an 8-0 spurt,
capped by a Chris Wilson three-pointer to close the gap to 59-54 with
3:24 to go. The teams traded buckets until another Wilson trifecta
trimmed the lead to 67-65. Mike Hauser netted two free-throws for
Bowdoin to extend the lead to four points before Nick Schmiemann was
fouled on a three-point attempt and hit the first two shots to cut the
Bowdoin lead to 69-67.

His third attempt caromed off the rim to the hands of Bates’ Brian
Ellis, giving the Bobcats a chance to tie or take the lead with under 13
seconds to play. But Bowdoin’s Paul Sellew poked the ball loose from
Kyle Philbrook and found Will Hanley for an easy lay-in to ice the game
with three seconds left.

Bowdoin never trailed in the game and won for the third time in their
last four meetings against the Bobcats. Phillips, who scored 14, was
Bowdoin’s lone player in double figures. Three players finished with
nine points, including Randy DeFeo, Hauser and Sellew. Will Hanley
scored eight points with 11 boards.

Bates was led by four players in double digits, including Ellis, who
notched 14. Jimmy O’Keefe totaled 12 points while Wilson had 11 and
Schmiemann 10.

Colby 67, UMF 46 

WATERVILLE — Justin Sherman had 14 points and the Colby College men’s basketball team used a late run at the end of the opening half to pull away for a 67-46 win over University of Maine at Farmington.

Sherman had 12 of his game-high 14 points in the second half. Mike Russell added 11 points and seven rebounds, while teammate Adam Choice finished with 11 points, six rebounds, and four assists for the Mules (4-0). Choice leads the Mules with 19 assists in four games and leads the team in scoring at 17.5 a game.

Josh Tanguay led UMF (0-4) with 10 points and six rebounds. Kevin Leary also had 10 points, while Eric Taylor finished with eight points and a team-high eight rebounds. Eric Lelansky dished five assists.

The score was tight for much of the first half, with the Beavers taking their final lead of the game at 14-12 with 10:51 to play. The Mules led just 24-19, but used an 11-2 scoring run over the final 2:22 of play to take a 35-21 lead into the break. Colby continued to pull away in the second half and led by 20 points with 6:42 to play in the game.

CMCC 78, Unity 28

UNITY – Brennan Morton led a balanced Central Maine Community College scoring attack with 12 points Thursday, including four 3-pointers, in a 78-28 men’s basketball rout of Unity College.

Ross Caron added 11 points and Bronson Drewry 10 for the Mustangs (5-3). Ethan John topped Unity (0-6) with eight points.

Women’s basketball

CMCC 92, Unity 15

UNITY — Teira Durgin dominated both ends of the court with 14 points and 12 steals to lead Central Maine Community College in a 92-15 rout over Unity in a Yankee Small College Conference matchup on Wednesday.
The Mustangs (3-2) led 53-10 at the break and received scoring contributions from all nine players, led by Sara Martin’s season-high 24 points. Shauna Fusco and Katie Martin also hit double digits for the Mustangs with 10 points apiece while Kayla Ellis tallied eight points and five steals. Carrie Hayden, Christy McAuliffe and Tiffany Lougee each hit for seven points and combined for 28 rebounds.
Andrea Miller led the Rams (0-4) with six points and Deidre Ousterhout added four.