DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Senior
Adam Seablom became the 51st member of the 1,000-point club at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with a 3-pointer late in the first half, and the No. 25 Corsairs captured their 15th Little East Conference regular season championship, with a 91-66 victory over Plymouth State Sunday afternoon.Â
The LEC tournament will run through Dartmouth for the second-straight year as Head Coach
Brian Baptiste picks up career win number 690. The Corsairs improve to 20-3 and 11-2 in the LEC, it is the first 20-win season since 2008-09. Seablom led the charge with 27 points, nine rebounds, six assists and three steals. Junior
Jackson Zancan finished with 16 points, graduate student
Jake Ashworth had 15, and sophomore
Isaac Percy tallied 10 off the bench.
The Panthers drop to 14-6 and 9-6 in the conference. Sophomore Kyler Bosse was the leading scorer for the road team with 19 points.
Azor and Seablom combined for eight of the first 10 points as the Corsairs took an early 10-4 lead with 14:38 left in the first. Plymouth State came back to make it a one-point deficit until an Azor put-back slam and 3-pointers by Seablom and Ashworth gave the home team life.
The Panthers hung around and even tied the game at 24 with 8:01 to go. 3-balls by Zancan, Ashworth and Seablom sparked a 21-8 run, highlighted by Seablom's three at 2:46 to give him 1,001 career points, to close the half to make it a 45-23 Corsair advantage.
UMass Dartmouth gradually extended its lead in the second. Key shots by Azor and Seablom started it, and a layup from senior
Sean Leahy made it a 63-47 game with 12:47 left in regulation. Senior
Dhalyn Sanders-Dyer got hot and scored seven points down the stretch and Seablom continued to drop triples as the Corsairs cruised to the win.
UMass Dartmouth hosts Rhode Island College on Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.
