{"id":17017,"date":"2016-12-29T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2016-12-29T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T04:44:12","slug":"mens-hoop-catamounts-win-siena-76-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/blog\/article\/mens-hoop-catamounts-win-siena-76-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Hoop: Catamounts Win at Siena 76-60"},"content":{"rendered":"
Courtesy Siena Sports Information<\/p>\n
ALBANY, NY<\/b> \u2013 Darren Payen scored a game-high 17 points off the bench to lead America East preseason favorite Vermont past Siena Basketball 76-60 in the Saints\u2019 2016 and non-conference finale at the Times Union Center. Red-shirt senior forward Brett Bisping<\/a> posted his fourth double-double of the season, and 22nd of his career, in pacing Siena with 10 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n Trae Bell-Haynes added 16 points for Vermont (9-5) which defeated Siena (4-9, 1-1) for the seventh consecutive season. Anthony Lamb, Kurt Steidl and Dre Willis added identical stat lines of eight points and six rebounds for the Catamounts which held a 40-31 advantage on the glass in becoming the first team to out-rebound the Saints in the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Sophomore guard Nico Clareth<\/a> scored 10 points, and freshman forwardSammy Friday<\/a> contributed a season-high six points in 11 spirited minutes off the bench for Siena which finishes with a final non-conference record of 3-8. Nine of the Saints 11 non-conference opponents currently sport .500 or better records, with those nine teams combining to post a 76-41 (.650) record entering play today.<\/p>\n Vermont led for the final 26 minutes after breaking a second first half tie with six straight points to claim a 27-21 lead late in the opening stanza. The Catamounts led 36-30 at the break.<\/p>\n Siena scored the first four points of the second half to pull back within as close as two, and trailed by just five with 15:11 to play. But Vermont embarked upon an 11-2 run to open a 14-point advantage with 11:10 remaining and maintained its double digit lead the rest of the way.<\/p>\n Now 9-5 on the season the Catamounts will wrap up the non-conference portion of their schedule when they host Harvard on Monday night at the Patrick Gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Courtesy Siena Sports Information ALBANY, NY \u2013 Darren Payen scored a game-high 17 points off the bench to lead America East preseason favorite Vermont past Siena Basketball 76-60 in the Saints\u2019 2016 and non-conference finale at the Times Union Center. Red-shirt senior forward Brett Bisping posted his fourth double-double of the season, and 22nd of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n