Category: Sports

Women’s Basketball: USM posted an 85-62 win against Plymouth State University (PSU) in Little East Conference action in Plymouth, NH on Tuesday night. Junior Ashley Marble (Topsfield, ME) had a game-high 25 points and 14 rebounds to help the Huskies to their 13th straight win (15-2).

The Lady Polar Bears of Bowdoin College got off to a slow start Tuesday night. The nationally ranked girls had just one goal in the first period before exploding in the second for seven goals, five with under eight minutes left.

Sophomore goalie Jen Arno (Westford, MA) had an outstanding first period for the Huskies, making saves on the first 24 shots fired her way.

Career stats: Goals: 21 Assists: 16 Points: 37 Games played: 64 Penalties: 42 (for 84 minutes) Career highlights: “Being elected captain as a junior. I am extremely honored to have been given the leadership role as captain of our team for the 2004-2005 season.

The USM men’s basketball team used two runs of 8-0 and 10-1 respectively in the second half to erase an eight point first half deficit and defeat the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) Beacons in a Little East Conference match on Tuesday in Gorham.

The Beacons took advantage of a flat-footed USM in the opening stages of the first half.

Women’s Basketball:

The USM women’s team cruised to their 45th straight win versus the U-Mass Boston Beacons with a 93-55 victory on Tuesday night in Gorham. Junior Ashley Marble (Topsfield, ME) had a game-high 17 points for the Huskies. A 52-point second half helped lead the Huskies to their 14th win of the season, putting them at 14-2 overall (6-0 against Little East Conference opponents).

As a sports fan, there’s nothing more perversely gratifying than when a fraud is exposed. Kobe is charged with rape. Eugene Robinson gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute on the night before the Super Bowl, shortly after receiving the Bart Starr award for high moral character.

Name: Jason Levecque Hometown: Westbrook, Maine Year: Senior Team: Basketball Position: Guard Uniform #: 15 Stats: Average 17.0 ppg Season totals: 33 Assists 7 Blocks 29 Steals 55 Rebounds Recent Highlights: Top scorer for last 3 games; 33, 24, 21 points respectively, helping USM to three straight wins.

A quick look at the past week in USM athletics.

Adversity? No problem. The USM men’s ice hockey team dominated Plymouth State College (PSC) on Tuesday while overcoming the loss of leading scorer Chris Sparkes (St. John’s, Nfld) due to a high ankle sprain and handling the Panthers by a score of 4-1. Additionally, the discouraging residuum of almost 30 penalty calls seemed to have no effect on the Huskies’ game throughout the night.

Is there anything more entertaining than watching Mike Martz self-destruct on the sidelines? The noted Civil War buff who masquerades as a football coach looked like he had just been hurled back off of Little Round Top by the 20th Maine when the St. Louis Rams were abused by the New England Patriots on November 9.

Name: Chris Sparkes. Sport: Ice Hockey. Hometown: St. John’s, Nfld. Year: Sophomore. Major: Business. Position: Forward. Uniform #: 7

The USM women’s basketball team finished last season with an impressive record of 29-2. The Huskies season ended with a disappointing loss to Bowdoin in the third round of the NCAA tournament. Bowdoin was the only team to beat the Huskies, defeating them once in the regular season as well.

USM men’s ice hockey is returning 18 players from last year’s roster, which is often a large attribution to a successful season.

Name: Colleen Dolbec. Sport: Cross Country. Year: Senior. Hometown: Newfield, ME. Major: Sports Medicine/ Health & Fitness.

Two Super Bowl Cadillac rides later and Tom Brady still can’t get a fair shake from the mainstream sports media. We’re not talking Joe Six-Pack and his 50 watt talk show in Cheboygan here, these are legitimate NFL commentators. Last January ESPN’s Chris Mortensen called Brady one of the “six or seven best quarterback’s in the NFL.

A quick look at the past week in USM athletics.

Name: Mike Bunker. Sports: Men’s Cross Country. Hometown: Bucksport, ME. Major: Exercise Physiology. Year: Senior.

Coming off a disheartening loss in Saturday’s game against Eastern Connecticut, the men’s soccer team defeated Western Connecticut State University by a score of 2-1 on Sunday. The two teams battled for control throughout the first half with the score still 0-0 as time expired.

On October 16, USM baseball coach Ed Flaherty was notified that he will receive college baseball coaches’ greatest honor. The American Baseball Coaches Association, (ABCA) inducts only six members a year and Flaherty joins a group of only 209 other amateur coaches, only four of whom coach at the Division III level.

Now that the ticker tape has flown and the stars have appeared on their favorite talk shows, it is time for Red Sox GM Theo Epstein to get back to work. The theme of this off-season will not be much different from any other: beat the Yankees. Yankee owner George Steinbrenner has made it clear that he will again try to remove the hearts of Red Sox Nation with a rusty spoon, in the person of Pedro Martinez.

A review of the past week in USM athletics.

The men’s soccer team held U-Mass Dartmouth scoreless while netting three goals this past Saturday in Gorham. The game, a conference win for the Huskies, improved their overall record to (9-3-3) and (2-2-1) in the Little East Conference (LEC).

The trio of goals began in the first half with a header by senior Andy Budelman (Rochester, NH).

Name: Sadie Garnache-Poirier. Sport: Field Hockey. Hometown: Biddeford, ME.

We are all aware of the contributions that star players Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez and of course Curt Schilling made to bring the Red Sox their first World Series Championship in 86 years. But like any championship team, it was the unheralded players who made plays that set the stage for these stars to perform.