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James Liebowitz
Dakota Shipley had nine points and 13 rebounds in the Huskies' win at Keene State
58
Winner Southern Me. USM 10-8,6-3 Little East
47
Keene St. KSC 7-11,3-6 Little East
Winner
Southern Me. USM
10-8,6-3 Little East
58
Final
47
Keene St. KSC
7-11,3-6 Little East
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Southern Me. USM 14 21 15 8 58
Keene St. KSC 11 9 18 9 47

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

Huskies Balanced Offense Defeats Keene State 58-47

KEENE, NH  –   Freshman Dakota Shipley (Bath, Maine/Brunswick) and senior Maria Degifico (South Portland, Maine) each scored nine points to lead a balanced offensive performance as the University of Southern Maine Huskies defeated the Keene State College Owls 58-47 Saturday afternoon at Spaulding Gymnasium in a Little East Conference women's basketball game. 
 
Shipley secured a game-high 13 rebounds, including six offensive boards, and added two blocked shots for the Huskies.  Graduate students Liz Cote (Conway, N.H./Kennett) and Francesca Ramsdell (Wells, Maine), and senior Maddy York (Nobleboro, Maine/Lincoln Acaemy) each had eight points. Cote, who canned a pair of big threes in the game, added eight rebounds, two assists and a steal.  Cote's eight rebounds are a career-high.  Four more players scored at least three points for USM.
 
KSC's Brynn Rautiola led all scorers with 12 points. The Owls also received nine points each from Kiley Bundy and Lilly Krysinski. Krysinski added six rebounds.
 
 
The Records:
Southern Maine (10-8, 6-3 LEC)
Keene State (7-11, 3-6 LEC)
 
SERIES HISTORY: Today's game 71st meeting between the Keene State College Owls and the University of Southern Maine Huskies.  Southern Maine leads the overall series 51-20.  Southern Maine earned a 68-49 win over KSC earlier this season. The Huskies are 8-2 against the Owls in their last 10 meetings dating back to the 2019-2020 season.
 
How It Happened:
  • After a slow start from both sides, Southern Maine's Cote scored the first points of the game with a layup at the 7:42 mark and the Huskies lead wire-to-wire in the game. KSC tied the game up at 7-7 with 3:27 left in the quarter, but the Huskies remained in front outscoring the Owls 7-4 to close out the first and take a slim 14-11 lead into the second.
  • Outscoring the Owls 21-9 in the second, Southern Maine shot 56.3 percent (9-for-16), including a trio of three-pointers. A layup from Ramsdell, an offensive rebounds and putback from Shipley, and a three from York accounted for the first seven points of the second quarter and grew the Huskies' lead to 21-11 with 8:55 left until halftime.
  • A driving layup from junior Julia Kratzer (Gorham, Maine/Cheverus) doubled up the Owls and gave USM a 32-16 lead with 2:43 on the clock. KSC made it a 12-point game, 32-20, with back-to-back layup from Avery Stewart and Krysinski, but Framsdell gave the Huskies a 15-point margin headed into the break with a last-second three on a fee from Cote, 35-20.
  • The Owls outscored the Huskies 18-15 in the third quarter. Another slow offensive start for both teams, Shipley put the Huskies ahead 41-25 with a three off of a feed from Kratzer midway through the third, but the Owls stormed back with a 16-6 run over the next 3:52 of action to cut the Huskies' lead to nine, 47-38, with 27 seconds showing. KSC's Ratioula hit the three to make it a three-possession game.  After a pair of offensive boards on the next USM possession from sophomore Emma Stred (China, Maine/Erskine Academy) and Kratzer to extend play, Cote came up big with a critical three for a 50-38 lead headed into the fourth as time expired.
  • With both teams missing until the 6:53 mark of the fourth, Cote extended USM's lead to 15, 53-38, with another big three. Ratioula and Bundy went back-to-back for the Owls with a three and layup respectively to trim the Owl's deficit to 53-43 but Degifico nailed a three from the corner on USM's next possession to keep USM up 56-43 with 3:35 remaining. Both teams exchanged points, and KSC's Samantha Lee scored the final bucket of the game for the 58-47 final in favor of USM.
 
Inside The Stats:
  • Neither team shot particularly well with the Huskies shooting 30.9 percent (21-for-68) and the Owls shooting 32.7 percent (17-for-52).  The Huskies scored 14 second chance points, securing 21 offensive boards. Southern Maine led KSC in rebounding 44-35, including 21-10 on the offensive glass.
  • Southern Maine is 6-1 in 2025 (all Little East Conference games), and are 2-1 on the road.
 
Up Next:
Southern Maine is back at home on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 (5:30 pm) against Rhode Island College, and then again on Saturday, February 1 (1:00 pm) against Eastern Connecticut.
 
 
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