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Vestal, N.Y. -- The No. 3 Stony Brook women's basketball team begins America East Championship play in a quarterfinal game against UMBC Saturday at 8:15 p.m. The game will air live nationally on ESPN3 and will be held at the Events Center on the campus of Binghamton University.

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Last Time Out

Sophomore Kori Bayne-Walker led three Seawolves in double figures with 12 points, but Stony Brook suffered a 56-49 setback at Hartford Sunday in its regular-season finale. The loss snapped the Seawolves' three-game winning streak. Sophomore Christa Scognamiglio scored 11 points, and senior Jessica Ogunnorin added 10 points for Stony Brook (17-12, 10-6 America East). Senior Sabre Proctor grabbed a team-high 10 boards. Trailing by 11, 51-40, with 4:32 left, Stony Brook used a 9-2 run to pull to within four, 53-49, when Bayne-Walker completed a three-point play at 1:41. However, Hartford held Stony Brook scoreless thereafter.

America East Championship History

This marks the first time Stony Brook has been the third seed. The No. 2 Seawolves beat UMBC and New Hampshire en route to their second-ever conference title game appearance, where they fell to Albany last season. Stony Brook previously made the finals in its first year in the league, 2001-02, as the No. 7 seed and is 8-13 all-time in the tournament.

Meet the New Boss

Stony Brook is now in the capable hands of Caroline McCombs, who comes to town after helping 11 of 15 teams reach the NCAA Tournament or WNIT as an assistant coach. Named the head coach by Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron on June 5, 2014, McCombs most recently spent two seasons as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Auburn, where she helped the Tigers to back-to-back WNIT berths. Her 2012 recruiting class ranked 16th nationally. During her five-year tenure as an assistant coach at Pittsburgh (2005-10), McCombs mentored the Panthers to five straight national postseason berths, including three Big Dances and two Sweet 16s. She also served stints as an assistant at Northwestern (2010-12) and Valparaiso (1999-05). McCombs is responsible for the development of two Associated Press All-Americans (Amy Jaeschke, Northwestern and Shavonte Zellous, Pittsburgh) and three WNBA players (Jaeschke, Zellous and Marlous Nieuwveen, Valparaiso). An accomplished collegiate player, the former guard led Youngstown State to the NCAA Tournament in 1998 and was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.

Up Next

The winner will move on to the semifinal round and take on either No. 2 Albany or No. 7 Vermont Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on ESPN3.