Catamounts Sweep Black Bears in Basketball
The University of Vermont swept Maine in a pair of basketball games on Wednesday evening. The UVM men’s team used a balanced attack to roll past the Black Bears, 79-48, at Patrick Gymnasium in the America East Game of the Week. In women’s action, senior Chrissy Battram scored 14 of her season-high 19 points in the second half, including the go-ahead layup with 61 seconds left to lift Vermont to a 68-65 comeback victory in Orono.The men’s team improves to 11-12 overall and 7-6 in America East and sits in a tie for third place with Hartford in the league standings. The women snapped a six-game losing streak with the win to move to 8-14 overall and 4-8 in the standings.
Both teams return to action on Saturday, February 18. The men travel to former America East foe Drexel in the ESPN Bracket Buster game (5:00pm), while the women host Albany at 1:00pm at Patrick Gym. The first 1,000 fans to the women’s game will receive a free set of trading cards courtesy of L. Brown & Sons.
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