CASTINE, Maine -- Four players reached double figures to lead the University of Maine at Farmington to a 65-47 win over Maine Maritime Academy in a North Atlantic Conference men's basketball game Saturday.
The win is the sixth straight for UMaine-Farmington – the Beavers' longest winning streak since the tail end of the regular season plus three post-season games during the 2009-10 campaign – and improved UMF's record to 13-3 overall, 8-2 in the NAC. The Mariners fell to 4-11, 3-7 with the loss.
Ben Johnson (Manchester, Maine/Maranacook) scored a game-high 16 points for UMF, Andrew Dickey (Cape Elizabeth, Maine/Cape Elizabeth) added 13 and Yusuf Iman (Auburn, Maine/Edward Little) and Garrett Clemmer (Windham, Maine/Windha,) both netted 11. Johnson also pulled down 10 rebounds.
Brad Reed paced MMA with 10 points, Ben Russell added nine and Paul Campbell and Logan Poirier added eight points each. Poirier grabbed a team-best 10 rebounds.
Maine Maritime jumped out to an early 7-2 lead, with jumpers by Russell and Ball and a three by Reed, with 15 minutes left in the opening half. The Beavers countered with an 11-0 scoring run, spanning nearly five minutes, to lead 13-7 with 10:10 left before halftime. Dickey's three started the run and a Clemmer jumper bookended it.
Farmington took its largest lead, 20-9, at 5:05 on a Johnson layup before the Mariners ended the half with a 12-2 run to end the half trailing 23-21. Reed netted five in the run for Maine Maritime, Poirier four and Russell three.
The Beavers built their lead to eight, 31-23, on an Iman jumper before the Mariners closed the gap to four, 31-27, on a pair of free throws from Paul and a layup by Poirier. UMF responded with a 10-0 scoring run, with a pair of threes by Iman and Clemmer, two free throws from Johnson and a layup by Dickey, to 41-27 with 11:11 left in the game.
A three by Campbell at 8:33 got Maine Maritime within seven, 43-36, but that's was as close as the Mariners would get.
UMaine-Farmington returns home for its next contest, when it hosts Green Mountain College on Friday, Jan. 25. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
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