CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Taylor Leach scored a power-play goal late in the second period and Maine held on for a 2-1 win over Boston College on Friday in the quarterfinals of the women’s Hockey East tournament.
Leach blasted a shot from the point with 4:27 left in the second. Mira Seregely and Celine Tedenby assisted on the play.
Alyssa Wruble’s goal tied in at 1 with 2.1 seconds left in the first period for the the Black Bears (15-18-1). Jordan Mattison stopped 27 shots for Maine.
Willow Corson scored at 13:43 of the first and Levy made 29 saves for the Eagles (19-14-1).
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
(7) UCONN 93, ST. JOHN’S 38: Paige Bueckers scored eight points in 12 minutes, returning from a left knee injury that kept her out for more than two months and helping UConn (21-5, 15-1 Big East) in a rout of St. John’s (11-17, 7-11) in Hartford.
The reigning national player of the year had not played since Dec. 5, when she suffered a tibial plateau fracture and torn meniscus in her left knee during the final seconds of the Huskies’ win over Notre Dame.
Bueckers didn’t start this one, but checked in with 3:41 left in the first quarter to a standing ovation with the Huskies already leading 19-4.
MEN’S HOCKEY
PROVIDENCE 4, MAINE 2: The Friars (20-13-2, 11-11-1) scored two goals in the first period and beat the Black Bears (6-19-4, 4-15-2) in Providence, Rhode Island.
Brett Berard and Riley Duran scored in the first period, and Parker Ford added a goal in the second to give Providence a 3-0 lead. Keenan Suthers scored in the second for Maine, before Chase Yoder scored in the third for the Friars. Matthew Fawcett added a third-period goal for Maine.
Victor Ostman had 39 saves for Maine, while Jaxson Stauber had 11 saves for Providence.
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 4, BOWDOIN 1: Paul Capozzi had two goals as the 10th-seeded Camels (6-14-3) eliminated the seventh-seeded Polar Bears (8-10-4) in a NESCAC first-round tournament game at Brunswick.
John Russo and Peter Scheschareg each added goals for Connecticut College.
Joe Alexander scored midway through the third period to get Bowdoin on the board, with assists from Patrick Callahan and Chris Brown.
SOFTBALL
GEORGE WASHINGTON 9, MAINE 1: Sierra Lange pitched a four-hitter with eight strikeouts and had two hits with two RBI and three runs scored as the Colonials (3-6) defeated the Black Bears (1-5) in six innings in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Kya Enos tripled and Gabby Papushka doubled for Maine.
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 8, MAINE 5: SeaEnna Satcher had three hits and four RBI and the Buccaneers (4-6) used a five-run sixth inning to pull away from the Black Bears (1-6) in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Maine scored five runs in the third on a two-run double by Gabby Papushka, RBI doubles by Kya Enos and Keely Clark and a groundout.
BASEBALL
BATES 14, NORTHERN VERMONT 2: The Bobcats scored five runs in the fourth inning to win their season opener, beating the Hornets (0-2) in Davenport, Florida.
Tyler Attal had a three-run home run in the seventh inning as Bates scored four in the seventh and four more in the eighth. Drew Fallon was 3 for 4 with four RBI, while Bryan Gotti was 3 for 5 with two RBI.
Grant Iuliano pitched five innings for Bates, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out three and walking one.
PENN STATE 4, MAINE 3: CJ Pittaro scored from second on a throwing error in the bottom of the ninth and the Nittany Lions (2-3) defeated the Black Bears (0-4) in Cary, North Carolina.
Maine’s Ryan Turenne hit an RBI single in the first and Joe Bramanti gave the Black Bears a 3-0 lead with a two-run homer in the fourth. Bramanti and Quinn McDaniel each had two hits.
NCAA POLICIES
MARIJUANA: The NCAA has relaxed the amount of THC an athlete can have to trigger a positive test, and is recommending less-stringent penalties for athletes who do test positive for marijuana. The threshold-level change is effective immediately and is retroactive to drug tests take in the fall, the NCAA said Friday.
The threshold levels for THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, will go from 35 nanograms per milliliter to 150 nanograms per milliliter, which the NCAA says is in line with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s levels.
Marijuana is legal in some form – medical, recreational or both – in the majority of U.S. states.
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