Eric Werntgen

NEWPORT NEWS, VA/Fort Kent - The University of Maine at Fort Kent women's basketball team, winners of four straight games, jumped all the way into twenty-first place in this weeks' USCAA Coaches Poll released by the national office in Newport News, Virginia.

The UMFK men's basketball team, winners of nine of their last ten games, remained in eighth place in the Men's Basketball D1 poll.

FORT KENT - The UMFK men's and women's basketball teams will host SUNY Canton this Saturday Jan. 21 in a double-header.

The women will play first at 1 p.m., followed by the men's game at 3 p.m. The Lady Bengals (3-11) have won two straight games while the men's team (12-6) enters Saturday's game having won four straight and eight of their last nine.

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND/Fort Kent - The University of Maine at Fort Kent men's basketball team used a strong second half to beat Johnson and Wales University 80-75 in non-league action from Providence, Rhode Island Saturday afternoon at the Harborside RAC.

NORTHFIELD. VERMONT/Fort Kent - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) defeated the University of Maine Fort Kent women's basketball team 83-56 in the consolation game of the Hockenberry Classic hosted by Norwich University on Saturday afternoon.

MCLA quickly opened up a 10-point lead at halftime and quickly extended out to a 54-35 lead with just under 17 minutes to play in the second.

Taylor Boucher's 14 points led UMFK (1-5), while Jennifer Colpitts and Megan Land had 12 and 11 respectively. Colpitts was named to the All-Tournament team.

LEWISTON - The University of Maine at Fort Kent men's basketball team shot a frigid 27 percent from the floor and turned the ball over 23 times as they lost to Wentworth Institute of Technology 61-43 in their second game at the Bates College Classic Saturday afternoon in Lewiston, Maine.

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent men's and women's basketball teams had mixed results at the Bengal Basketball Classic, with the men winning one contest with the University of Maine Machias, but the rest of the games going to the visiting teams, UMM and Daemen College.

FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent has named Bradley Holabird, a Caribou, Maine native, as the next women's basketball coach at the far northern university. In an announcement that UMFK Athletic Director, Bill Ashby made. Holabird takes over for Lucas Levesque who the administration chose as the new UMFK assistant director of admissions this fall.

FARMINGTON/Machias/Fort Kent - Donike Ferriera  of Montego Bay, Jamaica collected a hat trick as the UMFK women's soccer team rolled past the University of Maine at Farmington 5-1 in a non-conference women's soccer match at Farmington on Saturday.

Whitney Sinclair of Dexter added two goals and assisted on Ferriera's opening goal, and Jenn Colpitts of Scarborough also had an assist in the win.

FORT KENT  - The University of Maine Fort Kent men's and women's soccer teams will close out their home game schedule this week with three double headers at Alumni Memorial Field in Fort Kent.

On Tuesday, UMFK will host in-state USCAA opponent U-Maine Machias in a mid-week matchup. The women face UMM at 1:30 p.m. followed by the men at 3:30 p.m.