Border Battle Matchup Pits ‘Cats against Black Bears Wednesday Evening (7 P.M., ESPN+)

Wednesday, January 8

Bangor, Maine

7 PM

University of New Hampshire

Maine

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Caroline Soucy (Photo by Jack Bouchard)

Photo by: Jack Bouchard

Border Battle Matchup Pits ‘Cats against Black Bears Wednesday Evening (7 P.M., ESPN+)

1/7/2020 2:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball

UNH faces Maine on the hardwood for the first of their two meetings this season.

NEW HAMPSHIRE (4-10, 1-1 AE) vs. MAINE (5-11, 1-1 AE)
Wednesday, Jan. 8 – 7:00 P.M. – Cross Insurance Center – Bangor, Maine – ESPN+
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DURHAM, N.H. – Coming off its second straight home victory, the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team heads to Bangor, Maine to face the Maine Black Bears in the Border Battle Series. The two teams will face off Wednesday, January 8, at 7 P.M. in the Cross Insurance Center.

Both teams come into the matchup 1-1 in conference play, with each team winning its home matchup against Hartford, but both losing its first conference road game.

BORDER BATTLE
This year UNH and Maine are facing off in the Border Battle series, sponsored by Buffalo Wild Wings. The winning team of each contest, across all sports, earns free wings for their fans from Buffalo Wild Wings. So far this season, UNH leads the series, 6-4.

NEXT HOME GAME:
This is a short one-game road trip for the 'Cats before returning home once again to host the Stony Brook Seawolves next Saturday, January 11 at 1 P.M. in Lundholm Gymnasium for Alumni Day.

For tickets to all remaining UNH women's basketball home games, visit UNHWildcats.com/tickets or call (603)862-4000.

LAST TIME OUT:

Strong performances from seniors Ashley Storey (Cumberland, Maine) and Caroline Soucy (Beverly, Mass.) help put away a win for the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team as they took on the Hartford Hawks Sunday afternoon in Durham. The game came to a nail-biting finish as Storey scored the final layup to seal the Wildcats' win with five seconds left.
Storey finished her day with a team-high 28 points on 11-for-18 field goal shooting, grabbed eight rebounds, and was a perfect 5-5 from the line. Her lone offensive rebound led to her go-ahead bucket with 5.5 seconds remaining.
Soucy tallied 14 points, shooting 2-for-3 from behind the arc, and a perfect 2-2 from the charity stripe. Soucy also blocked a team-high three shots in the contest.
The third Wildcat scoring in double figures was junior Amanda Torres (Hudson, N.H.) with 12 points. Torres also looked for the open teammate, with five assists to zero turnovers, and was active in the passing lanes with two steals.
A pair of rookies rounded out the starting lineup and contributed offensively and defensively to the victory; freshman Héléna Delaruelle (Enghien-les-Bains, France) tallied just one bucket for two points, but came late in the game to put the Wildcats up 68-66. Delaruelle was a factor in many more of UNH's points, however, with a team-high seven assists on just one turnover. Redshirt freshman Faith Bonett (Moorestown, N.J.) tallied eight points and six boards; Bonett drew a key foul while laying the ball in late in the game, and was a part of a huge UNH run with her first career made three-pointer, the only long-range shot she took in the contest.

ABOUT MAINE:

The Black Bears (Orono, Maine) return home after a road loss to the conference's current top team, Stony Brook.
Overall, Maine is 5-11 on the season and 1-1 in conference.
The Black Bears are without their pre-season all-conference senior guard Blanca Millan, lost to season-ending injury at the end of November.
The scoring has been taken over by junior Dor Saar (10.6 ppg) and freshman Anne Simon (10.1 ppg), both of whom have collected America East weekly honors in previous weeks.
Maine has won the previous even meetings between the two teams, and lead the all-time series 56-32.

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