Durham, NH – The UMBC men's basketball team fell at New Hampshire, 75-66, on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium. The Retrievers, who dropped to sixth place in the America East standings, are now 17-12 overall and 7-7 in the America East.
Freshman guard
Dion Brown came off the bench to score 19 points (9-of-13 shooting) in 24 minutes to lead three Retrievers in double-figures. Graduate student guard
Craig Beaudion II scored 14 points and senior wing
Jacob Boonyasith added 10 points.
Clarence Daniels, the team's leading scorer, paced the Wildcats (12-13, 7-6 AE) with 19 points and added eight caroms.
The score was deadlocked 10 different times and there was a total of 14 lead changes in the contest.
Beaudion gave the visitors thier final lead at 50-48 with 11:32 remaining after finishing a driving layup.
After falling behind, UMBC senior forward
Yaw Obeng-Mensah tied the game at 59-59 with a driving dunk with 7:13 remaining, however, the hosts responded with the next four points and carried the lead to the final buzzer.
The Retrievers were within 63-60 after graduate student senior forward
Tra'Von Fagan hit 1-of-2 free throws with 5:22 left but the hosts scored six straight points to widen their lead to 69-60 with just 1:40 remaining.
UMBC defeated UNH in Baltimore, 80-69, on January 21.
UMBC, who has has dropped six consecutive road conference games, will return home to face UMass Lowell on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. for Senior Night.
