The UMBC Women's Basketball team returns to the road to face Maine on Thursday.

Last time out, Jaliena Sanchez scored a team-high 14 points, but the UMBC Women's Basketball team fell, 59-46 , to visiting UMass Lowell on Saturday afternoon at The Peake.

How it happened:

• Sanchez started off the game by beating the shot clock with a long three from the logo, but the visitors responded with an 8-0 surge to force a Retriever timeout.
• After the timeout, Sanchez drained two free throws and Palacio added a jumper to make the score 8-7 UMass Lowell.
• The teams traded buckets until Lowell scored the last five points to make the score 17-11 at the end of the first quarter. 
• It became a 12-2 run for Lowell until the Retrievers added four points to cut the deficit to 24-17 midway through the second.
• The lead eventually grew to 15 before an Anna Blount fastbreak layup and a Jordon Lewis three made it just a 10 point game
• However, the visitors would get a late basket to take a 38-26 lead into the half.
• A Blount jumper helped cut the lead but the River Hawks drew a foul to make it 45-33 which led to a timeout midway through the third quarter.
• Lowell responded with four points after the timeout to close out the third quarter 49-33.
• The Retrievers trimmed the deficit to 53-41 midway through the fourth, but both teams struggled to score from that point on
• Jaden Walker scored seven points, added a team-best eight rebounds, two steals and a block

Scouting Maine:

• Adrianna Smith posted her 11th double-double of the season to lead the Black Bears to a 78-52 win in the Border Battle, presented by Buffalo Wild Wings, at New Hampshire on Thursday evening.
• Smith, who finished 9-of-13 from the floor, led all scorers with a season-high 28 points to go along with 15 rebounds and four assists for her third double-double in her last four outings. Anne Simon added 11 points, running her double-digit scoring streak to 11 in row. Simon also moved past Sigi Koizar and into eighth on Maine's all-time scoring list with 1,677 career points. Olivia Rockwood knocked down four triples to finish with 12 points.
• Maine was dominant on the boards, out-rebounding the Wildcats 35-22. The Black Bears are now 10-3 this season when winning the rebounding battle and have conquered the rebound column in each of their first three conference outings. The Black Bears finished the evening 27-55 (49.1) while hitting 15-of-16 from the free throw stripe.
• Maine's defense forced 27 turnovers, turning the mishaps into a 32-17 edge in points off turnovers.
• Maine is off to a 3-0 start in league play for the second consecutive season and have been tremendous defensively through the first three games of league play.
• Maine is holding its conference opponents to just 47.7 points per game and have yet to surrender more than 52 point to a conference foe this season.

All-Time Series:

• Maine leads the all-time series, 25-14, and has won nine of the last 11
• The teams split the season series last year, with each team winning on its home court
• After Maine won 71-54 in January, the Retrievers won 74-57 at The Peake in February
• In that second contest Kiara Bell (Santa Rosa, Calif.) tallied another double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds, Ashia McCalla (Greenbelt, Md.) added 16 points 
• UMBC held an astonishing 28-3 advantage in points off turnovers