UNE’s Late Comeback Sinks Gulls in Battle for CCC Supremacy

Game Leaders

University of New England
Pts: Kelly Coleman - 17
Reb: Kelly Coleman - 15
Ast: Meghan Gribbin - 4
Endicott
Pts: Jennifer White - 15
Reb: Kayleen Whall - 6
Ast: 2 Players (#05, #14 - 4)

Team Stats

University of New England
Endicott

Field Goals

(21-68)
(22-54)

Field Goal %

30.9%
40.7%

Rebounds

52
32

Assists

10
16

Turnovers

14
13

Pts off Turnovers

15
14

2nd Chance Pts

15
8

Bench Pts

15
21
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More news about: Endicott
Jan 17, 2013

BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott and University of New England women's basketball teams met Thursday night at MacDonald Gymnasium in a battle for first place in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC). Despite Endicott holding a lead for much of the second half, it was UNE that emerged with a 63-60 victory to keep them at the top of the conference standings.

The Gulls were poised to hand the Nor'easters their first CCC defeat of the year, holding a 60-52 lead with two minutes to play, but the visitors from Biddeford, Maine closed the game on an 11-0 run to improve their record to 11-4 and stay perfect in CCC play (8-0), while dropping the Gulls to 10-5 overall and 6-2 in the conference.

Jennifer White (Lisbon, N.H.) led three players in double-figures for Endicott with 15 points and had five blocks in the game, but for the second consecutive contest, two opposing players registered double-doubles against the Gulls.

Sophomore Kelly Coleman (Portland, Conn.) led all players with 17 points and 15 rebounds and senior captain Beth Suggs (Bath, Maine) scored 12 points and grabbed 14 boards for UNE, who severely out-rebounded Endicott, 51-33.
By shooting better than 40% in each half and hitting 7-16 from the three-point line (43.8%) for the game, Endicott kept their noses in front for much of the contest. They led by four points at halftime and then weathered a mini-run to retake the lead at 40-39 with 11:05 left in the second half, thanks to a three-pointer by Kayleen Whall (Foxboro, Mass.), who scored 14 points off the bench and grabbed a team-high six rebounds.  

Endicott nursed that lead and built it to a game-high eight points, capped by a three-pointer by Samantha Crough (Cohasset, Mass.) and a jumper by Sarah Robinson (Norwich, Vt.) at 2:04. 

That was the last time that Endicott would find the basket, however, as the final two minutes of play belonged to the Nor'easters, especially Coleman, who scored 7 of the last eleven points of the game, getting the Nor'easters run started with a three that was soon matched by teammate Liz LeBlanc (Jay, Maine), who had 11 points off the bench for UNE. 

Crough was the final Gull in double-figures, scoring 13 points and leading all players with three steals. Lauren Hayden (Chantilly, Va.) scored 11 points and grabbed eight boards, while leading UNE with two thefts of her own. 

The Nor'easters methodically took a 13-6 lead to start the game, but Endicott, helped by three-pointers by Whall, White and Ashley Walenta (Plainfield, Conn.), who scored 9 points and dished out four assists in the game, used a 12-2 surge to take their first lead of the game at 16-15. 

UNE was helped by perfect shooting from the free-throw line ,where they went 7-7 in the first half, but the Gulls shot 11-26 (42%) from the field to just 24% by the visitors before the intermission. 

Sadie DiPierro (South Portland, Maine) was 2-4 from behind the three-point line in the first half for UNE and finished with eight points, after going 0-6 from downtown after halftime.

Senior guard Jen McBrien (Medfield, Mass.) also dished out four assists for the Gulls and had one of Endicott's seven blocked shots. 

The game was a sandwich home contest stuck between two three-game road trips for Endicott. They will begin their second trip on Saturday when they travel to Eastern Nazarene for a 1:00 pm affair. 

The Nor'easters will be back at home at the same time, welcoming in the Golden Bears of Western New England University.