Jan. 21, 2008

Box Score

Burlington, VT. - Junior Michael Tyree (Somerset, N.J.) scored a team-high 20 points including four of five from three but it wasn't enough as Vermont shot 48 percent from the field on its way to a 72-62 victory over the Stony Brook University men's basketball team on Monday night at Patrick Gym. The Seawolves fall to 4-14 overall and 1-5 in the America East while the Catamounts improve to 9-9 and 4-2.

The Catamounts led right from the start, going on a 9-0 run after a three from Tyree had cut the Seawolves deficit to 8-7. Nick Vier answered with the first of three straight three-pointers for the Catamounts to make it 17-7 UVM and forced the Seawolves to call time.

Stony Brook came right back though, scoring nine straight points including five from Tyree to cut the Vermont lead to one. Evan Fjelt scored on the ensuing Catamounts possession and Mike Trimboli turned a SBU turnover into a lay-up to push the lead back to five.

The lead ballooned to eight at 32-24 on two free thows from Marqus Blakely before Tyree answered with another three to cut the deficit to five. An acrobatic lay-up from Trimboli just before the break gave the Catamounts a six-point lead heading into the break. Tyree led the Seawolves with 13 on five of six shooting including three of three from long distance. Trimboli had a team-high 11 for the Catamounts who shot 52 percent in the opening half.

Colin McIntosh kicked started the Catamount attack to start the second half, scoring UVM's first seven points to push Vermont's lead to 10. The UVM lead would get as high as 13 but the Seawolves continued to hang around, cutting the lead to six at 59-53 with 2:59 to go on two free throws from junior Nick Carter (Huntington, N.Y.).

On the ensuing possession the Catamounts broke the Seawolves pressure, leading to a put-back lay-up from Marqus Blakeley that pushed the SBU deficit to eight and the Stony Brook would get no closer than seven the rest of the way as Vermont went nine of 12 from the line over the last two and a half minutes.

Trimboli scored a game-high 22 points for the Catamounts who were harassed into 23 turnovers by the Seawolves. Senior Emanuel Neto (Luanda, Angola) tallied 13 rebounds in the game which featured 47 fouls and 51 free throws between the two teams.

The Seawolves return to action on Thursday, traveling to take on the Hartford Hawks. Game time is set for 7 p.m.