FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington men’s basketball team kept its NCAA tournament hopes alive and secured one more home game this season with an 86-74 win over UMaine-Presque Isle in the North Atlantic Conference East Division final Saturday.
Terion Moss paced the top-seeded Beavers (19-7 overall, 14-1 NAC) with 33 points in the win over the third-seeded Owls (13-14 overall, 8-7).
Kyle Donlin netted 21 points for UMaine-Farmington, while Nathan Poulin had 16 points.
Griffin Guerrette led University of Maine at Presque Isle with 24 points. Dany Harris had 15 points and Parker Onorato was right behind him with 14 points.
The Beavers now advance to the NAC championship game next Saturday at 1 p.m. in Farmington. UMaine-Farmington will face NAC West champion SUNY Delhi, which beat SUNY Cobleskill 83-76 in overtime Saturday in the West Division final. The Broncos beat the Beavers 85-63 in Delhi, New York, in the two teams’ lone meeting this season. That was UMaine-Farmington’s lone conference loss this season.
MAINE 74, ALBANY 72: The University of Maine jumped out to a 10-point lead and held on to beat Albany 74-72 to clinch a spot in the America East playoffs on Saturday in Orono.
Kellen Tynes had 23 points, six rebounds, four assists and seven steals for the Black Bears, who improved to 11-15 overall and 5-8 in the conference.
With the win, Maine assured itself of a spot in the conference tournament for the first time since 2020 and eliminated Albany (7-22, 2-12).
Gedi Juozpaitis scored 17 points for Maine, while Ja’Shonte Wright-McLeish had 11.
DaKquan Davis had 26 points, including six 3-pointers, for Albany.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WILLIAMS 62, BATES 55: Mia Holtze led the No. 2 Ephs (19-7 overall, 8-2 NESCAC) with 16 points in a win over the No. 7 Bobcats (13-12 overall, 5-5 NESCAC) in a NESCAC quarterfinal game in Williamston, Massachusetts.
Maddy Mandyck had 15 points, Arianna Gerig dropped in 14 and Cortland McBarron had 11 points for Williams.
Mandyck had 12 rebounds.
Alexandra Long led Bates with 19 points and Meghan Graff chipped in with 11 points. Graff finishes her Bates career with a program-record 1,645 points.
ALBANY 53, UMAINE 50: Kayla Cooper scored four straight points to give the Great Danes (19-10, 13-2 American East) a three-point lead with 1:54 left and they held on to beat the Black Bears (13-13, 9-5) in Albany, New York.
Cooper finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds for Albany. Helene Hagerstrand added 17 points.
Adrianna Smith had 22 points and seven rebounds for the Black Bears. Paula Gallego added 13 points.
MEN’S HOCKEY
MAINE 0, NEW HAMPSHIRE 0: Victor Ostman made 27 saves for the Black Bears (13-13-5, 7-9-4 Hockey East) and Tyler Muszelik had 29 saves for the Wildcats (11-18-3, 6-13-3) as the two teams played to a tie in Orono. New Hampshire earned an extra point in the Hockey East standings by virtue of winning a shootout.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
MERRIMACK 3, MAINE 1: The Warriors (8-24-2, 5-20-2 Hockey East) scored twice in the third period to beat the Black Bears (15-17-2, 12-13-2) in Orono.
Ava Stevenson scored for Maine, while Brooklyn Oakes had 20 saves.
BASEBALL
MAINE 11, PITT 7: Matt McElwain went 3 for 5 with a home run and three RBI as the Black Bears (1-1) defeated the Panthers (1-1) in a non-conference game in Sarasota, Florida.
SOFTBALL
MAINE 5, WESTERN ILLINOIS 4, 8 inn.: Kyrah Haba-Dailey scored on a throwing error on Gabby Papuska’s sacrifice bunt in the top of the eighth inning as the Black Bears (3-4) topped the Bulldogs (4-3) at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Grace McGouldrick was 2 for 4 for Maine, while Alysen Reith picked up the win with 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, striking out a pair.
INDIANA STATE 8, MAINE 0, 5 inn.: The Black Bears (3-5) were no-hit in a five-inning loss to the Sycamores.
Lauren Sackett struck out eight and walked one for Indiana State.
Caitlyn Fallon allowed five earned runs on seven hits in three innings for Maine.
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