WBB: Little East

[Cheesehead Henry]

Dartmouth is just painful to watch. Didn't they get like 4 wins last year?

[7express]

Dartmouth is just painful to watch. Didn't they get like 4 wins last year?

No??  They finished with like 20.

[7express]

Coaches poll out: http://littleeast.com/sports/wbkb/2013-14/releases/201311145u7m7j

Aside from the top spot, and spot #6 I don't really have that big of a problem with the poll.  I'll state what the coaches picked first and then my predictions second:

USM 1.  I had Dartmouth 1.  Will be tough, as always, to win in Gorham.  However, I just can't look past those losses of Jordan Grant, Haley Jordan & Nicole Garland.  Knight is going to be a 1 person show, and the bench, which was particulary troublesome for them last year (not that they needed it with that starting 5 last year) will have to fill out 3/5 of the starting 5 this year.  Your not going to be a very good team if you rely on only 1 scorer.  Yes they'll be good.  Yes, they'll be good at home.  Yes, they'll likely be in the semifinals and quite possibly the finals once again this year.  Regular season winner this year I just don't see it.
Eastern 2.  I had USM 2.  Yes, that was a very young team, most of them underclassmen, but I was wondering if they played over their heads a little bit.  Remember they had Keene & Boston at home in Willimantic to end the year, a chance to finish in 3rd place with 2 wins (since they won the tiebreaker vs. Dartmouth), and would be getting a reeling Western team who they just killed a couple weeks earlier in the semifinals.  They lose that final game to Boston, get stuck in the RIC/USM half of the draw, lose to RIC in round 1 and that was that.
Dartmouth 3.  I had Western 3.  As I stated already, I actually think Dartmouth will be better offensively without Moriarty.  Bornemann while not as tall or as strong has a wider range of weapons on the offensive end then Moriarty did as she can space the floor and take the opposition big outside the lane and take and make elbow jumpers and 3 pointers.  They also have the league's best PG in Kelsey Garrity.
RIC 4.  I had Eastern (tied with Boston).  This is where coaches look at a roster, see RIC only lost a couple seniors (I think 3), and then say "They finished tied for 4th last year.  With pretty much the whole team coming back, how can they possibly finish lower than 4th??"  Well, I'll tell you how.  Ashley O'Dell, one of those seniors in question was a great asset off the bench the last 2 years, and a 3 point specialist.  Courtney Burns, the other main senior was the heart and sole of that team both on the court and off it as well.  It's going to be tough to replace that leadership she showed.
Boston 5.  I had Boston 4 (tied with Eastern).  Can't complain too much here.
Western 6.  I had RIC 6th.  Even with the turnover, I can't see how this possibly a 6th place team.  Do they invision Caroline Brasa getting hurt again??  if that's the case, this would be an 8th place team.  If her knee is fine, and she's on the court for all 14 LEC games, there is no way this team finishes lower than 4th.
Keene 7, Plymouth 8.  Same order as I had.  Once again no complaining or arguments from me over those selections.

[7express]

Basketball has officially started, first game tomorrow and with that, here's the schedule for Friday:

Elms 45 @ Dartmouth 78.
All you need to know about Elms is that they were the 1 team that was unable to beat Plymouth last year, even though they finished the year 17-11.
Green Mountain 44 @ Keene state 65.
Green Mountain is 9-61 over the last 3 years and lost their final 13 games of 2013 en route to finishing 3-20 last year.  During their 13 game losing streak they were held to 41.7 points on average and were held below 40 7 times including scores of 20 vs. Colby-Sawyer (lost 86-20) and 18 vs. Castleton (lost 82-18).
Salve 65 vs. USM 69 (@ Maine-Farmington).
A nice matchup.  Salve is the runners up to UNE in the CCC.  They've had at least 19 wins 4 of the last 6 years.
Farmingdale 56 vs. Western 54 (@ Richard Stockton)
Farmingdale was picked to win the Skyline this season.  The only have 1 double digit returning scorer from last year and that was Nicky Young at 17.0 ppg.  Western's roster is a mess at the moment.  This should be close the majority of the game, but Farmingdale is experienced, while half of the Western team is made up of newcomers.  That's the difference in the game.
RIC 56 vs. Westfield 59 (@ UNE).
Westfield was picked to finish second in the MASCAC and return their 3 leading scorers from last season lead by Gabby Felix at 13.0 points a game.  As a team that averaged 61.4 ppg last year.  I don't think RIC is going to be able to outscore them.
Plymouth 46 vs. Brooklyn 73 (@ Vassar). 
Brooklyn is a combined 36-4 in CUNYAC play the last 3 years with 2 of those 4 defeats at the hands of Baruch an was picked second in the CUNYAC behind Baruch this year.

[7express]

Friday's games:

Dartmouth leads Elms 18-4 at 12:39.  Garrity and Bornemann both going work like I thought they would.  Garrity with a couple steals and assists, Bornemann 1-2 from 3.  No problems so far.  I'll update this throughout the day
30-8 Dartmouth 7:05 left in half.
Dartmouth leads 47-23 at halftime.  They were up 47-14 with about 3 minutes left, before the Blazers got some life and ended the half with a 9-0 spurt including a 3 at the halftime buzzer.
85-40 with 4:10 left.  Not sure on the exact stats, but I think Garrity has around 17 and Bornemann has about 20.
Final from Dartmouth as the Corsairs win 91-43.  Elms was never much of a threat.  I think they started the game up 5 or 6 to nothing, stretched that to 18-4, and went up as much as 33 in the first half and 45 for the game.  Kelsey Garrity finished with 16, Erika Bornemann lead the way with 18.   Dartmouth plays the winner of Framingham state/Castleton state which comes up around 3 in the final of the Fairfield Inn & Suites tournament; Elms gets the loser of that game in the consolation tomorrow afternoon.
In the afternoon's second game Keene leads Green Mountain 40-16 at halftime.  From the video it looks like Green Mountain only has 7 players dressed for this game.  Keene coach Keith Boucher is sitting on 349 career victories, unless Keene totally collapses in the second half, it looks like a pretty good bet coach Boucher gets win #350.  Hopefully the games this evening are more exciting, but I'm liking these 2 free wins to start off the season with.
Keene wins 89-36.  Missed the last 10 minutes or so.  Allison Wadsworth & Amber Heath combined for 28 of Green Mountain's 36 points.  Keene only had 2 players in double digits; Courtney Roberts with 14 and Sarah Kober with 10, but 13 of 14 players for Keene appeared on the score sheet and 14 players from Keene played at least 8 minutes.  And congrats to coach Keith Boucher win #350 a couple hours after Dartmouth coach Amanda Van Voorhis recorded career win #200.  Through 2 games, the LEC is outscoring the opposition 180-79.  Tougher opponents still to follow obviously and even some tough ones tonight (Farmingdale vs. Western; Salve vs. USM) but so far a great start.
Salve leads USM 9-6 at 13:07.  Rebecca Knight has 4 points.  USM already in foul trouble as Eric McNamera picked up 2 quick personal fouls.
USM leads 26-21 at halftime.  Rebecca Knight (10 point) and Meghan Pellitier (6 points) are the leading scorers.  Pellitier has 3 fouls and Taylor Flood & Erin McNamera each have 2 fouls for the Huskies.
Western leads Farmingdale 15-10 at 7:53.  Caroline Brasa and Chelsea Cosker I think her name is, are the leading scorers with 5 apiece.  Western 3-9 on 3 pointers so far in the early going, but if Dartmouth plays the rest of the season like they did today, they'll be challenge to Western in the "most 3's taken" department.  Usually Western is a lock for that title, they might have some company this year.
Western leads Farmingdale 26-20 halftime.  Western with an atrocious foul on a Farmingdale offensive rebound and 1 putback with 1 tenth of a second left in the half to give Farmingdale life.  Since I only know like 3 players, have no clue what the other numbers are, but looks like Caroline Brasa is the leading scorer with 8 points.
Final from Farmington, ME as a big second half from USM results in a USM blowout over Salve 67-45.
Western up 62-40 4:37 left.  Sciarra Brandt with 17 points.  The freshmen really playing a lot and some plying well.  Emily Dodson has 8 points on 4-8 shooting in 27 minutes, Kerri Stolle has 5 points (but a 1-1 assist to turnover ratio) in 30 minutes of action, Chelsea Cosker has 9 points in 22 minutes of action, and Alyssa Eannotti has 6 points and 7 rebounds in 21 minutes of action.  There is no way this is a 6th place team at seasons end.
Western beats Farmingdale 72-55.  Sciarra Brandt had a monster game with 23 points and 20 rebounds.  Western held Farmingdale to 29.2% from the floor and 16.7% from 3.
In the 7 PM game, Westfield leads RIC 32-30 at halftime.  Jen Ashton leads Westfield with 15 points on 6-10 shooting, and Gabby Felix with 8 on 4-5 shooting.  Balanced scoring for the Anchorwomen as Vandell Andrade, Stephanie Prusko, and Ashley Moore each have 6 points to lead the way for RIC.   RIC shooting 43.3%, Westfield shooting 41.2%.
RIC gets the 5 point win over Westfield 73-68.  Ashton finished with a game high 24 for the Owls while Felix finished with 16 who finished the game shooting 52.7% for the field.  Vandell Andrade lead RIC with 20 points and 11 rebounds, Stephanie Prusko added 17 on 5-7 shooting from 3, and Danielle LeBlanc had 10 points and 8 assists.  RIC finished shooting 52.7% for the game.  Moves the conference to 5-0 on the season, but with Plymouth closing out the day, it's a pretty good bet to end the day with a loss.
Speaking of Plymouth, they are trailing 39-14 at halftime to Brooklyn.  Rosalie Edmonds leads the Panthers with 6 points and has 2/3's of Plymouth's made field goals for the half, as the Panthers ended the first half a dismal 3-26 (11.2%) from the floor.  Carissa Williams has 11 points on 4-9 shooting to lead the Bulldogs who are hitting 42.1% from the floor.
Last final of the night goes final as Brooklyn defeats Plymouth 67-40.  Plymouth did a tad better in the second half as they hit on 37.9% of their shots, but overall still finished at 25.5%.  Rosalie Edmonds actually showed some promise up there in Plymouth with 11 points and 6 rebounds and DeAsia Lawrence looks like she can turn out to a decent player in 2 or 3 years fro the Panthers, but until that time comes they need veterans like Krystin Corliss and Bry Bennett to step up, and score.  Corliss had 6 points and only shot 3-10, Bry Bennett had 8 rebounds, but only scored 1 point and attempted only 2 field goals.  Carissa Williams had a game high 17 to lead the Bulldogs, and Zoe Randolph chipped in 15 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists.

5-1 for the LEC, 4-2 for me

[7express]

Saturday schedule.  No updates as I have my final soccer game in the morning, than heading up to Eastern to catch Courtney Burns first day on the bench for Johnson & Wales, so I'll have a full recap Saturday night from all the action.

Western 67 @ Richard Stockton 65 3 PM.
Stockton defeated St. Mary's College 69-50 in the second game.  Western as noted earlier defeated Farmingdale 72-55.  Farmingdale vs. St. Mary's will be the consolation preceding this.  Stockton shot only 33.9% from the field and allowed St. Mary's to shoot 35.3% from 3.  The Western freshmen played great Friday.  I wasn't expecting much coming in this weekend, but could very well go home 2-0.
Plymouth 38 vs. Wellesley 65 (@ Vassar) 2 PM.
Wellesley lost 55-41 to Vassar; Plymouth lost 67-40 to Brooklyn.  Wellesley held Vassar All-American Cyndi Matsuoka to only 11 points on Friday.  I doubt they'll have much trouble against the Panthers even though they struggle on the offensive end.
Castleton state 67 @ Dartmouth 62.
Castleton defeated Framingham 71-50, Dartmouth dismantled Elms 91-40.  Think Dartmouth is going to have a bit of a tougher time this time around.  The Spartans finished 29-2 last year, just missing a pool C bid (at least in my opinion, not sure how far off they actually were), before settling on winning the ECAC New England tournament as a consolation prize.  However, despite their gaudy record they failed against Colby-Sawyer as they went 1-2 last against the Chargers including losing to them in the NAC final which denied the Spartans an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament.    In 2011-12 they finished 22-6, but won 16 of their final 17 regular season games in winning the NAC and advancing to the NCAAs where they lost round 1 to Juanita.  Since December 25, 2011 the Spartans have won 45 of the 48 games they've played in that time span and have lost to 1 team not named Colby-Sawyer: That was to Juanita in that NCAA game March 2 of 2012.  In those 45 wins, only 4 were decided by 6 points or less, so not only is this team consistent at winning, their consistent at winning big as well.  Think this will be a much closer affair, but 45-3 speaks for itself.
Endicott 56 @ Keene 59.
Keene downed Green Mountain 89-36, Endicott defeated MCLA 80-57.  Last year the Gulls were 16-12 overall and 8-9 on the road.  Not a particular high scoring team as they only averaged 56.0 ppg last year, and only gave up 54.0 ppg.  Luckily for them Keene wasn't scoring last season either, only averaging 57.0 ppg.  The 89 points the Owls scored against Green Mountain was their highest total since they put up 96 on a York team that went onto finish 3-23 on November 16 of last season.
RIC 57 @ UNE 71.
RIC beat Westfield 73-68; UNE beat Daniel Webster by 70 101-31.  UNE has finished with 20 wins the last 5 years and has made the NCAAs 3 of the last 4 seasons.  UNE finished last season 14-1 at home and averaged 63.5 ppg last season.  The starters got plenty of rest vs. Daniel Webster while RIC had to sweat it out against a tough Westfield team.  RIC will keep it close for a half, but this team is too good at home.  Their only loss last season at home was by 9 to USM, and this years RIC team doesn't quite match up to last year's USM team.
USM 79 @ Maine-Farmington 54.
Farmington defeated NAIA Fisher 83-70; USM defeated Salve 67-45.  Farmington hasn't had a winning season since 2008-09.  Farmington's leading returning scorer averaged only 8.5 ppg last season, and only have 4 people 5"10 or taller.
Johnson & Wales 66 @ Eastern 70.
The last time Courtney Burns was in Willimantic, she lead RIC to a win over Eastern in the quarterfinals of the LEC tournament and ended Eastern's surprising run.  This year she's back in her first game on the J&W bench as the head assistant coach to Wildcats coach Corey Boilard.  If one person on that team knows how to beat Eastern, it's her.  J&W was 5-5 in away games last year and averaged 57.2 ppg last year.   The Wildcats return leading scorer Jenna Juron (13.5 ppg) last year, but lose 3/5 of the top 5 scorers from last season.  Eastern was picked 2nd in the preseason LEC poll, but I think that may be a bit overrated since this is still a relatively young and inexperienced team.  This might be closer then most people think.  The nightcap of this tournament is Hartwick vs. Mount St. Mary, 2 of the better teams in the East region.

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Eastern leads Johnson & Wales 29-26 at halftime.  I think this is Easterns first lead if the game and it comes on a 3 off a J&W turnover.  Speaking of turnovers, according to my count J&W has 7 Eastern with 12.  Eastern with about 10,000 offensive rebounds vs a much smaller J&W team.

[7express]

Sat results:

Wellesley over Plymouth 57-34.  This team hasn't scored more than 42 points since last January, 31.
Castleton with a win @ Dartmouth 70-62.  Kelsey Garrity was pretty much invisible as she had the same amount of personal fouls (2) as she had made field goals, points + assists (2).  Erika Bornemann had 14, Meghan Ronaghan lead the Corsairs with 28.  Dartmouth was 5-22 from 3 which didn't help them much either.  And look at that, I nailed Dartmouth's score  .
Western over Stockton 58-57. 
Caroline Brasa with 10 off the bench, Kerri Stolle with 20 to lead the way.  This team hit on 41.2% from 3 and after watching MSM play a zone defense tonight which allowed Hartwick making 12 3 pointers in 17 attempts, this team could literally hit 50 3's on Wednesday night.  The worst possible team to play a zone against since they make their living from outside the arc.
Endicott over Keene 69-60.  Christan Wojtas had 15 and Sarah Kober had another good game with 14.  Going 4-23 from 3 and 5-12 from the free throw line did Keene in.
UNE over RIC 67-59.  Danielle LeBlanc had 19 for the Anchorwomen, Vandell Andrade had 10 with 9 boards.
USM over Farmington 86-57.  Nothing to see here against this overmatched opponent.  Erin McNamera had a pretty efficient game: 24 points on 7-12 shooting (6-8 from 3), 6 rebounds, 4 assists.  Real teams to come for the Huskies this week: @ UNE Tuesday (UNE has a great home court advantage.  Have only lost at home 8 times since the start of the 2008/09 season), then the first conference game of the season at home next Saturday vs. Keene.
Eastern over Johnson & Wales 62-39.
The second half of this game was pretty much like the first half of Western's loss to RIC in the semifinals of the 2012 LEC tournament where Western scored 3 points and had 1 made field goal that entire first half.  No matter what you do the second half, odds are your going to lose by 20+ anyways, so you just want to hang with them.  J&W did that the first half, racing out to a 24-13 lead at 1 point.  As I stated in the last post, that 3 Eastern hit off the double dribble at midcourt with 1.5 seconds left was the beginning of the end, and J&W was ice cold in the second half.  At the 9:12 mark they had only recorded 1 second half point.  Eastern had a ridiculous 62 rebounds (33 on the offensive end), which lead them to 17 second half points.
Sunday schedule:
Only 1 game as Eastern concludes the women's tournament at Eastern.

Hartwick 72 @ Eastern 67.
I'm actually looking forward to this matchup.  If I don't have to cook anything for the family dinner tomorrow night I'll probably head back there, but worst comes to worst I'll be watching on LEC TV.  Hartwick destroyed Mount St. Mary using a devesting full court trap and a 3 point barrage on MSM's zone defense to get a comfortable 94-50 win.  Eastern came from behind to beat Johnson & Wales 62-39.  Hartwick starts 3 seniors, 1 junior and a freshmen, finished 22-6 last year (12-2 in conference) and advanced to the NCAAs.  As I said, they employed a full court trap, and if they can use it to slow down the young, inexpierienced Warriors (started 2 sophmores, 1 junior and 2 freshmen) into a bunch of turnovers, this could end up being a rout.  However, Eastern had 27 turnovers against J&W and they weren't pressing the ball like Hartwick will be doing.  Hartwick forced 25 MSM turnovers (most of them as stated in the backcourt) and converted them into 20 points.  I still think Hartwick takes this anyways because they are the more experienced team, but if Eastern keeps their cool, holds onto the ball, and can get their offense going, they'll be in until the very end.  if not, Hartwick will end another game this tournament at halftime as they lead MSM 44-19 at recess tonight.  1 last thing to keep an eye on in relationship to the Hartwick trap.  This year there is a 10 second back court rule in the women's game AND the refs are using the shot clock to decide 10 seconds, so in actually it's probably like 9.5 seconds or less, and Hartwick forced MSM into two, 10 second backcourt violations and forced an early MSM timeout on a 3rd occasion.

8-5 for the LEC, 10-3 for me

[7express]

Hartwick leads Eastern 29-21 at halftime.  Hartwick surprisingly not going with the 1-2-2 full court press which I thought would be effective against the young Warriors squad.  Must've been a play designed just for MSM as J&W used it in the consolation game and forced MSM into 28 turnovers.    Eastern only has 7 turnovers, but is shooting only .500 from the free throw line while Hartwick is 6-6 from the line.  Krystina Forsman has 6 points for Eastern, Taylor Vonaskek has a game high 12 for Hartwick on 6-9 shooting.
Hartwick defeats Eastern 65-46.  Shannon McCourt lead Eastern with 16 and Forsman was 0-5 in the second half and finished with 6.  Hartwick placed 4 in double figures lead by Vonasek with 16.

[AllStar]

Tuesday predictions:

UNE 68, Southern Maine 66
Both teams won tip-off tournaments.  Southern Maine beat Salve Regina and then overmatched Maine-Farmington.  UNE crushed Daniel Webster and pulled away from Rhode Island College.  This game could really go either way in my opinion.  I would not be surprised if either team won...I would be very surprised if it was not a close game.

Rivier 70, Plymouth State 45
Rivier has not played this year and their roster isn't even on the website yet.  Looks like they bring back pretty much everyone from last year, though.  They gave up over 70 points to Plymouth last year even in a 78-71 win that was far more of a blowout than the score indicated.  I don't think it happens this time.  I will give Plymouth over 40 though.

UMass-Dartmouth 72, Worcester State 62
I think this game will be somewhat close, but the Corsairs will eventually win by double digits.  Worcester State is 1-1, losing to WPI and beating Becker.  I think UMass-Dartmouth rebounds from the loss to Castleton State.

UMass-Boston 82, Simmons 46
UMass-Boston's first game of the year probably won't be remotely close.  I seriously doubt Simmons even gets to 46, but they have scored in the 50's in both of their losses this year.

Emmanuel 64, Eastern Connecticut 60
This is another interesting game.  ECSU blew out Johnson and Wales but was then handled easily by Hartwick.  I think this will be a close game that Emmanuel wins.

Amherst 75, Keene State 48
Amherst's first game of the year.  I'm not sure this game will be very close.

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Tuesday's schedule:
USM @ University of New England 5:30
Rivier vs. Plymouth state (@ NH Tech) 6
Dartmouth vs. Worcester state (@ Clark) 6
Boston @ Simmons 7
Emmanuel @ Eastern 7
Keene @ Amherst 7
Best game is USM/UNE.

USM 54 @ UNE 59.
Each team has beaten 1 good team (USM beat Salve; UNE beat RIC) and each has clobbered a bad team (USM beat Farmington by 29; UNE beat Daniel Webster by 70) to get to 2-0 on the season.  UNE won by 9 in Gorham last year, but this team is rock solid at home in Biddeford, ME losing only 8 times in the last 6 seasons.  USM has lost their last 2 trips in Biddeford and have lost 3 of 4 to them overall.
Rivier 78 vs. Plymouth 46.
This is the 3rd of 3 straight neutral site games to begin the season for Plymouth.  Last year's meeting was a 78-71 Rivier win, but Rivier returns all 5 starters and 12 of 13 players that appeared in last season's meeting including Deanna Purcell who lead Rivier with 27 points.
Dartmouth 65 vs. Worcester 59.
Each team is 1-1.  Dartmouth beat Elms and lost to Castleton; Worcester went 1-1 in the Worcester tournament losing to WPI before beating Becker.  Last year Dartmouth won by 5 with Kelsey Garrity & Erika Bornemann combing for 28 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists, 7 steals, and 2 blocks. 
Boston 70 @ Simmons 53.
The last LEC team to open their season.  Simmons is 0-2 losing to Maine-Maritime & Bates to begin the season, and have a combined record of 8-38 the last 2 seasons.  Boston won 8 non-LEC games last season meaning in 10 games last year, Boston equaled Simmons' win total from the previous 2 seasons.
Emmanuel 66 @ Eastern 59.
The road team has won the last 4 meetings in the series including Emmanuel picking up a 57-53 win in Willimantic last season.  Emmanuel is 2-0 beating Ohio Wesleyan & Stevenson; Eastern 1-1 beating Johnson & Wales and losing to Hartwick.
Keene 46 @ Amherst 67.
This was a 17 point Amherst win @ Keene last year.  Amherst has won no fewer than 27 games in each of G.P. Gromacki's first 6 season's on the bench including 30+ the last 4 years.  Gromacki's .869 winning % is the highest among all active coaches across any NCAA division, and his record at Amherst since coming over from Hamilton college prior to the 07-08 season is 181-14.  Their leading returning scorer is Megan Robertson who burst onto the scene last year averaging 12.1 ppg, but Amherst has to replace 3 starters from last year's 30-3 team.  This is their first game of the season while this will be Keene's 3rd game, so Amherst might be sluggish for the first half, but Amherst should pull away in the second.

[7express]

Thanks for posting the schedule here too Allstar!

[AllStar]

Thanks for posting the schedule here too Allstar!

No problem.  I'll try to post as frequently as I can.  We will see how off all my predictions are.

[7express]

Bad night for the conference so far as USM goes down 66-62.  No shame in losing to UNE though, especially on the road.  Leaves Western as the conferences line unbeaten.
Plymouth loses 65-52 I believe.  Better showing then both me or Allstar predicted.
Dartmouth loses to Worcester 75-70.  Erika Bornemann had 24 points and 16 rebounds but Kelsey Garrity was injured which really hurt them.  Bad loss though with or without her, still a team they should have beaten.
No scores on the other games an I'm going into class.  I'll have a recap later on, unless Allstar posts the results before then

[amh63]

7......nice call on the Amherst vs Keene game.....Amherst wins by 15 at home.......67-52.  Amherst was sluggish in the first half and broke the game open in the second half.  Keene ralled a bit near the end with the subs in for Amherst.  Amherst's offense was terrible...but its defense was good...as both teams shot poorly.  Keene had 28 TOs!  Should be ok for Amherst going forward, imo.