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Freshman Lucy Wiles led Southern Maine with 14 points.
40
SOUTHERN MAINE SMWB2223 4-4, 0-1 LEC
50
Winner Eastern Conn. ECSUWB 2-7, 1-0 LEC
SOUTHERN MAINE SMWB2223
4-4, 0-1 LEC
40
Final
50
Eastern Conn. ECSUWB
2-7, 1-0 LEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
SOUTHERN MAINE SMWB2223 9 14 9 8 40
Eastern Conn. ECSUWB 9 12 9 20 50

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Christina Cracolici, Director of Athletic Communications

Eastern Connecticut Pulls Away in Fourth Quarter for 50-40 Win Over Huskies

WILLAMANTIC, Conn.   – Taylor Salato scored 10 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter as the Eastern Connecticut State University Warriors used a 17-5 run in the final 6:26 of the game to earn a 50-40 win over the University of Southern Maine Huskies in a Little East Conference women's basketball game Wednesday night at Geisler Gym.
 
Salato finished with 19 points, six rebounds and two assists for the Warriors. Marissa Nudd led the way for ECSU with a game-high 20 points on 7-for-16 shooting, adding six rebounds.  Salato and Nudd combined for 39 of the Warriors' 50 points in the game.
 
Southern Maine freshman Lucy Wiles (Glenburn, Maine/Hampden Academy) led the Huskies with 14 points, three rebounds and two assists. Junior Vanessa Vaughan (Hantsport, Nova Scotia/King's Edge Hill) added 13 points, eight rebounds, three assists and three steals.
 
The Records:
Southern Maine (4-4, 0-1 LEC)
Eastern Connecticut (2-7, 1-0 LEC)
 
SERIES HISTORY: Today's game marked the 100th meeting between the University of Southern Maine Huskies and the Eastern Connecticut State University Warriors. Southern Maine leads the overall series 69-31.  The Huskies split the 2023-2024 series with the Warriors, earning a 60-58 win at home and dropping a 42-40 contest at ECSU. Southern Maine last defeated the Warriors on their home court on January 10, 2019 by the score 64-56.
 
 
How It Happened:
  • Southern Maine held a slim 23-21 lead at the half. Wiles had nine of her 14 points in the first half, including six in the second quarter as USM outscored the Warriors 14-12 in the frame to take the halftime lead.
  • Both teams struggled offensively in the third quarter scoring nine points each.  The Huskies were 4-for-17 in the third, while the Warriors were 2-for-13; however, the Warriors went 4-for-4 from the free throw line to keep pace with the Huskies.
  • Salato pulled the Warriors even with USM, 25-25, with a layup with 7:09 remaining in third quarter, but scoring took a break for both sides until the 3:40 mark when Vaughan snagged an offensive rebound and scored a putback for a 27-25 Husky lead.  Freshman Dakota Shipley (Bath, Maine/Brunswick) made it back-to-back buckets for Southern Maine for a 29-25 lead before Nudd closed the gap with two free throws at the 2:00 mark to make it a one-possession game, 29-27.
  • Wiles pushed the lead back to five for the Huskies, scoring a traditional three-point play with a driving layup and the free throw, before Nudd scored the final points of the quarter for the Warriors to take score 32-30 in favor of USM headed into the fourth.
  • Salato scored a traditional three-point play of her own to start the fourth and give ECSU the lead 33-32 with 8:35 to play.  Vaughan quickly returned the lead to Southern Maine, knocking down the Huskies' lone three-pointer of the night for a 35-33 lead with 8:13 to go.  The score remained unchanged for nearly two minutes before a Salato layup keyed an 8-0 run for the Warriors over the next 1:40 to give USM a 41-35 advantage with 4:46 to go.
  • Vaughan broke up the Warrior run with a layup to make it a 41-37 game with 3:44 to play, but ECSU outscored USM 9-3 in the final 2:43 of the game to take the 50-40 win.
 
Inside The Stats:
  • Neither team was hot from the field.  Southern Maine shot 29.3 percent (17-for-58) from the floor, while the Warriors shot 32.7 percent (17-for-52). ECSU was 4-for-13 from three, while the Huskies were uncharacteristically 1-for-17. 
  • The Huskies left point on the free throw line shooting just 5-for-15 (33.3 percent). ECSU was a perfect 12-for-12 – led by a 7-for-7 effort from Salato.
  • The Huskies led for a majority of the game, holding the lead for 26:07 of the game (65.3 percent), and led 35-33 early in the fourth, but shot just 3-for-11 from the field and 1-for-8 from the free throw line in the quarter.  Conversely, the Warriors were 6-for-11 from the floor, and 7-for-7 from the free throw line.
 
Up Next:
Southern Maine is hitting the road for its next three contests in December. USM faces nationally-ranked Rhode Island College in LEC action on Wednesday, December 11 (5:30 pm) before traveling to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Classico December 19-20.  The Huskies will face Randolph-Macon and Ohio Wesleyan during the trip.
 
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