UMass Lowell started fast, taking an 18-point lead at the end of the first half, and cruised to an 85-54 win over the University of Maine in the quarterfinals of the America East men’s basketball tournament on Saturday in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Gedi Juozapaitis scored 16 points for the Black Bears, who were playing in the conference tournament for the first time since 2020 and end the season with a 13-17 record overall, 7-10 in conference play.
Kellen Tynes, who was named the conference’s defensive player of the year on Friday, had 11 points. Tynes is the first UMaine men’s player in program history to win the conference’s defensive player of the year award and the first Black Bear to win a men’s basketball honor since Francois Bouchard was named rookie of the year in 1991.
Brayden O’Connor had 14 points for UMass Lowell (25-7, 12-5). Everette Hammond added 13 points, Ayinde Hikim had 12 and Abdoul Karim Coulibaly 10 for the River Hawks.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
SOUTHERN MAINE CC 57, UM-AUGUSTA 49: Tara Flanders scored 12 of her 20 points in the fourth quarter as the Seawolves (20-7) pulled away to beat the Moose (21-7) in a Yankee Small College Athletic Conference semifinal game in Auburn.
Maddy York added 14 points for SMCC, which advances to the finals to face Central Maine Community College.
Kaeti Butterfield scored 25 points for UMA.
MEN’S HOCKEY
BOWDOIN 3, COLBY 1: Patrick Callahan scored 7:29 into the third period to break a tie and Joe Alexander added an insurance goal as the seventh-ranked Polar Bears (14-9-3) beat the fifth-ranked Mules (13-11-2) in the New England Small College Athletic Conference semifinals in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Bowdoin advances to the NESCAC final and will face No. 8 Williams, a 1-0 winner over No. 3 Amherst, at 2 p.m. Sunday in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Colby took a 1-0 lead in the second period on a goal by Carter Breitenfeldt. Bowdoin tied it later in the period when Bobby Murray scored.
Alex Kozic stopped 33 saves for Bowdoin, while Andy Beran had 28 saves for Colby.
UMASS 4, MAINE 3: The Minutemen (13-6-5, 7-14-3 Hockey East) built a 3-0 lead and held off a comeback bid by the Black Bears (15-15-5, 9-11-4) to complete a weekend sweep in Orono.
Nolan Renwick, Ben Poisson and Lynden Breen scored for Maine.
The Black Bears are the No. 6 seed in the Hockey East playoffs and will host a first-round game Wednesday against No. 11 Vermont.
BASEBALL
WINTHROP 6, MAINE 2: The Eagles (7-4) scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to break open a tie game and beat the Black Bears (2-6) in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Myles Sargent had two hits and Quinn McDaniel homered for Maine.
SOFTBALL
MISSOURI 10, MAINE 0: Maddie Gallagher had three hits and drove in a pair of runs as the Tigers (14-5) beat the Black Bears (4-8) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Grace McGouldrick had the lone hit for the Black Bears.
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