Hannah Talon scored 27 points to lift the St. Joseph’s women’s basketball team to an 83-55 win over Rivier in the semifinals of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference tournament on Friday in Standish.
The Monks, the No. 1 seed in the North division, improve to 22-6 overall and 16-2 in the conference and will play Emmanuel in the GNAC tournament championship on Saturday. The Raiders, the third-seed in the North division, finish at 14-13 overall, 10-8 in the conference.
Angelica Hurley added 18 points and Elisabeth Stapelfeld had 13 for St. Joseph’s. Logan Brown added 10
Alexa Dufries had 22 points for Rivier.
ENDICOTT 65, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND 56: Emily Thomas scored nine of her19 points in the fourth quarter as the sixth-seeded Gulls (13-14, 9-9 CCC) upset the Nor’easters (18-9,13-6) in the semifinals of the conference tournament in Biddeford.
Taylor Bogdanski and Sarah Dempsey both scored 14 points for Endicott, which will face No. 1 Roger Williams in the championship game on Sunday.
Faye Veilleux had 16 points and Keagan Dunbar had 11 for UNE.
(7) MARYLAND 76, (16) OHIO STATE 74: Abby Meyers scored 24 points and the Terrapins (24-5, 15-3 Big Ten) finished the regular season on a six-game winning streak with a victory over the Buckeyes (23-6, 12-6) in Columbus, Ohio.
Lavender Briggs’ 3-pointer was part of an 8-0 run midway through the fourth quarter that gave the Terrapins a 73-69 lead.
Maryland then held off a late push from Ohio State, which tied it at 73 with over three minutes left.
MIAMI: The program has been placed on probation for one year after the school and NCAA said women’s basketball coaches inadvertently helped arrange impermissible contact between a booster and two players who signed with the Hurricanes.
Hurricanes Coach Katie Meier will not have to miss any more games; she served a three-game suspension to start the season in anticipation of the NCAA’s ruling.
But the NCAA made clear that it wanted tougher penalties, saying it was “troubled” by “the absence of a disassociation of the involved booster” as part of the sanctions that Miami agreed upon.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
ST. JOSEPH 88, ST. JOSEPH’S 49: Ryan O’Neill had 24 points and the Blue Jays (27-0, 18-0 GNAC) beat the Monks (15-12, 10-8) in the conference semifinals in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Jaecee Martin added 14 points, while Jalen Samuels and Delshawn Jackson Jr. both had 13 for St. Joseph, which will play in the conference final Sunday.
Griffin Foley had 11 points for St. Joseph’s.
OLE MISS: Mississippi coach Kermit Davis’s tenure is over, his team mired in a four-game losing streak and in last place in the Southeastern Conference standings.
Ole Miss Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics Keith Carter said the school and Davis “have mutually agreed to part ways effective immediately.”
Davis has gone 74-79 in five seasons at Ole Miss, which is 10-18 and 2-13 in SEC games.
MEN’S HOCKEY
MAINE 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 3: Lynden Breen had a goal and two assists as the Black Bears (14-13-5, 8-9-4 Hockey East) beat the Eagles (12-13-6, 7-9-5) in Orono.
Jakub Sirota, Luke Antonacci, Donavan Villeneuve-Houle, Aidan Carney and Felix Trudeau also scored for Maine. Victor Ostman had 31 saves.
Nikita Nesterenko and Cutter Gauthier each had a goal and two assists for Boston College. Andre Gasseau also scored.
BASEBALL
MONMOUTH SWEEPS MAINE: In the first game of a doubleheader, the Black Bears lead 9-0 before falling behind by four in the eight inning, only to rally with five runs in the ninth before losing, 15-14, on a two-run walk-off home run by Monmouth’s Austin Delinger.
Jake Raines was 2 for 4 with two RBI and three runs scored for the Black Bears. Quinn McDaniel scored five times and Jeremiah Jenkins drove in three.
In the second game, three Monmouth pitchers combined on a one-hitter in a 4-1 victory. Nick White hit a solo home run in top of the ninth for Maine’s only hit.
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