By the Beacon Sports Staff

Squads combine going 9-3

The women and men’s basketball squads started the second half of the season back on January 6th when they traveled to Holyoke, MA to take to the court against Holyoke Community College. Both squads won at Holyoke, the Lady Seawolves walked off the court with a 43 point win (91-48) win, while the men ended the evening with a 17 point victory (77-60).

The second half of the season has been as close to golden as you can get for both squads, as they have put together a 9-3 combined record. The Lady Wolves have won and won big against Great Bay Community College (88-18), Unity College (95-10) and Presque-Isle (89-51), while dropping a hard fought loss to defending conference champion St Joe’s of Vermont (56-60) and losing poorly to Community College of Rhode Island (44-63).

On the men’s side of the court, the Wolves have won their first five games before dropping a disappointing loss to Presque-Isle (64-72). After the 2016 opener against Holyoke, the Wolves beat the defending conference champions St. Joe’s in Rutland, Vt (85-70), followed with a 101-60 win at Great Bay Community College, survived against CCRI (84-76) and won against Unity College (97-75).

With a little less than a month before the Yankee Small College Conference Elite 8 Tournament, hosted by Central Maine Community College which takes place February 18th through 21st, just a handful of home games remain for the Seawolve basketball fan to see the squads in action at the Hutchinson gym.

The Lady and Men’s teams will take to the court against conference foe University of Maine-Augusta tomorrow evening as the women tip off at 6 and the men at 8pm. Currently the Lady Moose sit atop the Eastern Division of the YSCC with a perfect conference record (8-0), as the men sit percentage points (5-3 with a .625 winning percentage) ahead of SMCC in third place of the Eastern division.

Two and a half weeks later (February 13) the Knights of Vermont Tech visit South Portland to take to the court for the final home conference game for the Seawolve squads. The Lady Wolves end their home season the next day against Navy Prep in a non-conference game.

This past Saturday the teams hosted University of Maine-Presque Isle in a non-conference match up. The Lady Wolves played 40 solid minutes of defense as they held UMPI to 12 or less points in three out of the four quarters. Presque-Isle’s best quarter was the second when they scored 20 points.

At halftime the Lady Wolves held a 47-28 lead. The 19 point halftime lead would grow in the second half after UMPI cut the lead to 13 points in the opening minutes of the third quarter.

Alicia Hoyt led all scorers with 19 points while grabbing nine rebounds. Maria Veino and Vanessa Barnes followed Alicia’s efforts by each scoring 13 points.

In a total team effort everyone player on the Lady Wolves squad found their name in the scoring column.

The Lady Wolvces defense forced Presque-Isle into committing 23 turnovers while picking The Owls pocket 13 times and out rebounding the Presque-Isle squad 58-31. The Lady Seawolve’s record improved to 17-5 overall while holding steady at 7-3 in conference play.

In the men’s game the Wolves came out hot draining three consecutive three point shots to grab a 11-2 lead after 3 minutes and ten seconds. Jordan DeRosby hit the first two and Greyson Waterman followed shortly after.

The first half saw the Seawolves keep the offensive pressure on the Owls by shooting 16 for 30 from the field, including four for eight from beyond the three point line. Matt Talbot and Greyson Waterman each scored ten points in the first half as Jordan DeRosby was right on their heals scoring nine points. When the first half horn sounded the Wolves held a 12 point lead, 37-25.

The second half would see UMPI hack away at the SMCC lead eventually grabbing a one-point lead on a three point shot with a little more than two minutes left in the game. The Wolves were not able to sustain any offensive momentum as the UMPI Owls built a six-point lead over the next two minutes.

High score honors for the Sewolves went to Matt Talbot who score 18 points which were followed by Jordan deRosby’s 13 and Greyson Waterman’s 12. The loss drops the men Wolves overall record to 10-13, as their conference record held steady at 6-4.