Category: Sports

For some, the 2010-2011 USM women’s basketball season could be considered a disappointment according to the program’s standards. For the first time since 1994, they failed to make a Division III NCAA Tournament appearance, and for the first time in 31 years they failed to win 20 games in a season, ending an NCAA record…

For the majority of the last decade, the men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams have been a dominant force in the Little East and New England Alliance Conferences. It wasn’t any different on Saturday as the two teams continued their dominance, both finishing first overall in the LEC/Alliance Championships held at the Costello…

After coming back from winter break, the USM men’s basketball team has faced a bumpy road, losing nine of their last ten games. This trend didn’t change on Feb. 8 as they dropped their eighth straight game, losing a hard-fought battle to conference opponent Plymouth State 75-64 at Hill Gymnasium in Gorham. The Huskies —…

After a loss against a very talented Colby College team on Feb. 1, the USM women’s basketball had been steamrolling, with their latest victim being Plymouth State. The Huskies used a 50-point first half and four double-figure performances to rout the Panthers 96-61 in a Little East Conference match-up at Hill Gymnasium in Gorham on…

The USM women’s track and field team continued part of yet another tremendous season as they placed third at the State of Maine Indoor Track and Field Championships held last Friday night at the Costello Sports Complex in Gorham. Bowdoin College of Brunswick was crowned champions for the third year in a row as they…

Coming off a year that saw the USM wrestling program have two All-Americans, two national qualifiers and one alternate, as well as five wrestlers earn All-New England honors at the New England Wrestling Association Championships, this year’s team had big shoes to fill. Mike Morin (Fryeburg), the most decorated grappler in the history of USM wrestling,…

The USM women’s hockey team handed Colby their third straight loss Tuesday night, winning 4-1 in a non-conference match-up at USM Ice Arena. Sophomore Kailey Bubier (Auburn) scored two goals for USM and Junior Katie Paradis (Rochester, NH) had the winning goal and two assists. The score wasn’t a good indicator of the pace of…

After losing a heartbreaker to UMass Boston on a last second 3-pointer on Jan. 25, the USM men’s basketball team’s luck ran short again on Saturday as they were downed by some late heroics, losing 72-67 to Keene State in Gorham. Sophomore point guard Ryan Martin (Wayne) hit a 3-pointer with 20 seconds remaining and…

The USM women’s basketball team was back at it again in Gorham on Saturday against conference foe Keene State, and they did not to disappoint. Senior guard Kaylie DeMillo (Jay) helped lift the Huskies once again on yet another step-back three-pointer with two seconds left to give them a 72-69 win in dramatic fashion. With…

Injuries can be an athlete’s worst enemy and sometimes the demise of a promising career. That’s not how the story goes in Becky Dixon’s case, though. Dixon, who has gone through five knee surgeries in her career, is back playing with the USM women’s basketball team after over a year of not playing organized basketball,…

•    USM sophomore sprinter Danielle Hutchins (Lamoine) broke the school record for the 55-meter dash  at the USM Invitational in Gorham on Jan. 8. Hutchins crossed the finish line in a time of 7.50 seconds. Less than a week later, Hutchins broke her own record in the dash by crossing the finish line in 7.45…

The USM women’s basketball team had their hands full on Saturday as Little East Conference leader Western Connecticut came to town, but the Huskies proved they are an elite power and a legitimate contender in the conference as they earned a dominant 74-53 win over the Colonials in front of a packed house at Hill…

When a team shoots 50 percent from the field and scores 70 plus points in a game, they expect to win. This wasn’t the case at Hill Gymnasium on Saturday, though. The USM men’s basketball team played well, but Western Connecticut played even better, as they shot 55.3 percent from the field and 61.5 percent…

Like all the winter athletic teams at USM, the men’s and women’s hockey teams were back in action after a short winter break for several games in January. The men’s team gathered back in Gorham for an exhibition game against the USA Under-18 Team — a team USM has played for the last three seasons….

As others went home for the good part of a month for the holidays, the USM men’s and women’s basketball were back in Gorham after an abbreviated winter break to prepare for their annual holiday tournament trips. The men’s team took their talents to Washington D.C. in the Catholic University Holiday Tournament, and the women’s…

The USM athletics department celebrated their rich athletic history as six former student-athletes and one coach were inducted into the USM Athletics Hall of Fame, as a part of the Husky Hall of Fame Banquet and Ceremony on Oct. 2, at the Kenneth Brooks Student Center on the Gorham Campus. The 25th Silver Anniversary Hall…

Fall is in the air, and the 162-game grind that is the Major League Baseball season culminated earlier this month, as eight teams all competed for the chance to call themselves World Champions. This year’s postseason has been nothing short of thrilling. Fans have seen moments that have made them jump for joy and in…

When you hear the word jock, the image of a letter jacket-wearing, no-brained, class skipping, self-surrounded on-field superstar may come to mind. If you dive into the hallways of USM though, and go through the classrooms with students sporting their cross country sweats, you will find that the stereotype of jock is non-existent. “The cross country team’s…

DeHaan Goal in OT Lifts USM Past UMass Dartmouth, 2-1 Senior Heidi DeHaan (Lewiston, Maine) scored her second goal of the match 1:53 into the second sudden-death overtime period to give the USM women’s soccer team a 2-1 victory over the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Saturday afternoon in a Little East Conference game at Cressy…

In a game that saw tremendous defensive and goaltending efforts, the USM men’s soccer team drew a 0-0 overtime tie against Colby College at Memorial Field on the campus of Deering High School on Wednesday night. The Huskies came out strong in the first half. They put pressure on the Mules from the kickoff and…