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Deja Driscoll Smith
40
Southern Me. USM 10-13,8-6 Little East
67
Winner UMass Dartmouth UMD 20-3,12-2 Little East
Southern Me. USM
10-13,8-6 Little East
40
Final
67
UMass Dartmouth UMD
20-3,12-2 Little East
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Southern Me. USM 9 9 14 8 40
UMass Dartmouth UMD 17 12 19 19 67

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

No. 23 UMass Dartmouth Defeats Southern. Maine 67-40


NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.     –  Carly Whiteside led all scorers with 24 points and five rebounds as the No. 23 ranked UMass Dartmouth Corsairs earned a 67-40 win over the University of Southern Maine Huskies in a Little East Conference women's basketball game Saturday afternoon at the Tripp Athletic Center. 
 
Whiteside was 8-for-10 from the field and 6-for-6 from the free throw line for the game-high total. Teja Andrews added 19 points and a game-high nine rebounds, shooting 8-for-14 from the field.  Seven other Corsairs scored at least two points in the win.
 
Sophomore Vanessa Vaughan (Hantsport, Nova Scotia) led Southern Maine with 10 points off of the bench. Shooting 2-for-9 from the field, Vaughan was 6-for-6 from the free throw line.  Senior Tamrah Gould (Manchester, N.H.) added eight points, while senior Amy Fleming (Berwick, Maine) added six points, five rebounds and three assists.
 
The Records:
Southern Maine (10-13, 8-6 Little East)
No. 23 UMass Dartmouth (20-3, 11-2 Little East)
 
Today's game marked the 85th meeting between the University of Southern Maine and the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs.  Southern Maine leads the overall series 67-19, but the Corsairs have won the last 12 games consecutively against the Huskies. UMD defeated Southern Maine 76-64 on January 11, 2024.
 
How It Happened:
  • Leading wire-to-wire, UMass Dartmouth opened the game on a 10-0 run led by seven points from Whiteside.  Held scoreless through the first five minutes of the first quarter, the Huskies used two free throws from Vaughan at the 4:24 mark to get on the board, and a bucket from Fleming to trail 10-4 with 3:32 to play.  UMD outscored USM 7-5 in the final minutes to lead 17-9 into the second.
  • Each team scored five points a piece in the first five minutes of the second quarter, and USM trailed 22-14 after a three from Gould at 5:14 until the half. The Corsairs used a three from Amaris Mills and a 4-for-5 effort at the free throw line in the last five of the second to take a 29-18 lead at the half.
  • Trading bucket-for-bucket in the third, Gould had the Huskies within 10 with her second three of the game at 5:37, but the Corsairs scored seven straight, including a three from Whiteside to grow its lead to 45-28 with 3:02, and led 48-32 headed into the fourth. 
  • The Corsairs ran away with the game opening the fourth on a 13-2 run and led 62-24 with 3:10 remaining.  Whiteside and Andrews each had five points in the run. From there UMD led by as many as 29 points for the win.
 
Inside The Stats:
  • UMass Dartmouth scored 23 of its 67 points off of Husky turnovers.  Southern Maine committed 22 turnovers in the contest. The Huskies scored nine points off of 19 UMD turnovers, including seven in the first quarter.
  • The Huskies shot 13-for-56 from the field (23.2 percent). UMass Dartmouth shot 35.5 percent (22-for-62), and had 12 second-chance points on 14 offensive rebounds. UMD outrebounded the Huskies 52-34.
 
Up Next:
The Huskies are back at home on Wednesday, February 14 (5:30 pm) hosting Plymouth State University. Southern Maine closes out its regular season on Saturday, February 17 (1:00 pm) against Vermont State University Castleton.
 
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