Women Advance to NAC Final

BANGOR, ME-Top seeded Husson University women's basketball team used their depth to pull way from #4 Green Mountain Eagles to a 79-60 NAC semifinal win at Newman Gym on the Husson campus.

Husson used all seventeen players on the team to wear down the Green Mountain Eagles who played only seven.   Husson was led by the NAC Player of the Year Shelby Bradford with 15 points and 10 rebounds and NAC Rookie of the Year Bree Hanscom with 19 points and 9 rebounds.  Noelle Lincoln went 4 for 6 from the three point line to add 12 points and Bethany Sevey tallied 13.  Eleven different Husson players scored.

Green Mountain College was led by Brittany Holden who scored 15 points while playing all 40 minutes.  Molly Harper added 13 while Natalie Clark and Christina Chamberlain each had 11.

The Husson Eagles (18-7/ 14-1 NAC) advance to the finals to take on #3 Castleton State College who defeated University of Maine Farmington in the other semifinal match-up.  The Final will be played at Husson Newman Gymnasium at 2:00pm  on Saturday February 28, 2009