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In front of 2,610 fans, the University of Maine women’s basketball team was victorious against the University of New Hampshire Wildcats Wednesday night at Alfond Arena. In the 67-45 victory, the guards of the Black Bears proved to be the deciding factor in the game. The game highlighted America East’s two leading post players: Black Bear Heather Ernest and Wildcat Maren Matthias.
Senior shooting guard Melissa Heon played her A game as she paced the Black Bears with 15 points including four three-pointers during the outing. Junior guard Missy Traversi tallied up all her 11 points in the second half of the game.
The Bears, now 8-5 and 3-0 in America East play, forced 20 turnovers and made key transitions to earn them the win against the Wildcats. Coach Sharon Versyp said that the entire team was very excited with their win.
Defensively, Heon, Kim Corbitt, and Traversi played a 1-2-2 zone and occasional man to man defense, while holding UNH to 18 second-half points.
“When we play that type of defense, that’s what we can do,” Traversi said. “That’s what we have inside us. We just have to keep playing like that.”
After taking an 11-2 run in the first half, the Wildcats quickly let the lead slip as they only made eight field goals in the last 29 minutes of the game.
” I think the biggest issue was we didn’t execute well against their zone and our guards didn’t shoot well,” UNH coach Sue Johnson said.
Even though the Wildcats jumped to an 11-2 lead early in the game, the determination of the Black Bear roster regained the lead at the end of the first half with a 28-25 lead. They never gave up the lead for the rest of the game. 37 of the 67 Maine points were scored in the second half.
For the Black Bears, Ernest scored 13 points and had five rebounds. UNH’s Maren Matthias had foul trouble and ended up with 13 points and nine rebounds. Maine’s Monica Peterson contributed five points and eight rebounds and Abby Schrader added four points and five boards.
