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USM WBB vs UNE
James Liebowitz
66
Southern Me. SOUTHERN 3-1
70
Winner Bates BATES 4-0
Southern Me. SOUTHERN
3-1
66
Final
70
Bates BATES
4-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 F
Southern Me. SOUTHERN 18 17 13 12 6 66
Bates BATES 23 7 12 18 10 70

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

Huskies Fall to No. 10 Bates College 70-66 in Overtime

WIles, Shipley and Christopher in Double-Figures for Huskies


LEWISTON, Maine  - Sophie Spolter scored four of her team-high 18 points in the overtime period, including a pair of game-sealing free throws, to lead the No. 10 Bates College Bobcats to a narrow 70-66 win over the University of Southern Maine Huskies in a non-conference women's basketball game Tuesday night at Alumni Gym.
 
Spolter was one of three Bobcats in double-figures, adding nine rebounds and four assists.  Sarah Hughes, who also scored four points in overtime, had 16 points, eight rebounds and three steals.  Elsa Daulerio added 16 points, nine rebounds, four assists and four blocked shots.
 
Southern Maine sophomore guard Lucy Wiles led all scorers with 22 points, adding a pair of rebounds, an assist and a steal. She scored all six of USM's points in OT.  Senior Jaycie Christopher (Skowhegan, Maine) had 18 points, six rebounds, and four assists, while sophomore Dakota Shipley (Bath, Maine/Brunswick) added 17 points, a team-high seven rebounds, two assists and three steals.   
 
The Records:
Southern Maine (3-1)
No. 10 Bates (4-0)
 
Today's game marked the 60th meeting between the University of Southern Maine Huskies and the Bates College Bobcats.  Southern Maine leads the overall series 41-19; however, Bates has won the last five meetings consecutively, including an 80-58 win in Gorham in 2024.  
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
  • Bates scored the first six points of the game and led by 11, 16-5, midway through the first quarter before the Huskies offense woke up and made it a two-possession game, 23-18.  Southern Maine outscored the Bobcats 13-7 in the final 3:41 of the first, shooting 5-for-7 from the field and led by five points from Christopher.
  • The Huskies opened the second with a 5-0 spurt led by four points from Shipley to tie the game up at 23 with 8:02 left. Spolter put the Bobcats ahead 29-25 with a jumper at the 3:55 mark for her sixth points of the game, but USM went on a 10-1 run to close out the half and lead the nationally-ranked Bobcats 35-30 heading into the break.  Christopher had eight of the Huskies' 10 points – all from the free throw line.
  • Daulerio led the Bobcats back in the third scoring the first four points of the quarter to make it a one-point game.  Senior Avah Ingalls (Hampstead, NH/Pinkerton Academy) scored four straight for the Huskies, making in a five-point game, 39-34, with just over five minutes left in the third. Bates' Abby Walsh canned a three after snagging an offensive rebound making it a 39-37 game in favor of the Huskies, but Christoper and Shipley went back-to-back with a layup and a three respectively for a 44-37 USM lead with 4:06 on the clock.
  • Neither team scored for the next two minutes before Daulerio sank to free throws at 2:38 (44-39, USM). Both teams again exchanged points before Wiles ended the quarter with a layup giving USM a 48-42 lead into the fourth.
  • Bates took the lead early in the fourth with a 10-1 run in the first 2:35.  Spolter had five of Bates' 10 points in the run.  The Bobcats were 4-for-5 from the field in the run, including 2-for-3 from three. 
  • Daulerio and Hughes each connected on buckets sandwiched around a Wiles' layup to put the Bobcats up two-possessions, 58-53, with just under two to go. The Bobcats and Huskies exchanged successful offensive possessions, and Shipley hit two free throws with 30 seconds remaining in regulation to make it a 60-57 game. Bates missed on its next possession and the Huskies cleared the board with just four seconds to play.  After a time out, Southern Maine forced overtime as Shipley canned a buzzer-beating three to tie the game at 60.
  • In OT, Southern Maine scored the first two buckets of the game, both on Wiles' layups.  Hughes scored the Bobcats first bucket at 3:30 to make it 64-62 in favor of USM, and Bolter tied it up a possession later.  Wiles hit another layup to give USM a 66-64 advantage with 2:29 to go, but it was the final field goal of the game for the Huskies as Bates closed on a 6-0 run.
 
Inside The Statistics:
  • Wiles has reached in the double-digit mark in three of the Huskies first four games and has surpassed the 20-point mark twice. She is averaging a team-leading 18.3 points per game and shooting 48.3 percent from the field.
  • Shipley has led USM in rebounding in two of the Huskies' four games. She is averaging 14.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.25 assists, 1.0 blocked shots, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 48.7 percent from the floor.
  • Christopher is averaging 17.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.25 assists, and 2.25 steals per game, shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 92.0 percent (23-for-25) from the free throw line.
 
Up Next:
The Huskies are back at home on Sunday, November 30 (4:00 pm) hosting in-state rival Saint Joseph's College (Maine) for the Costello Cup. Southern Maine opens its Little East Conference schedule on the road at UMass Boston on Wednesday, December 3 (5:00 pm) before hosting WestConn on Saturday, December 6 (1:00 pm).  The Huskies' final home game of 2025 is on Wednesday, December 10 (5:30 pm) against UMaine Farmington.
           
 
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