Daily Word: Cats and Hawks Hot to Start

Daily Word: Cats and Hawks Hot to Start

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New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.

Welcome back from a nice Thanksgiving break. Hopefully you are all full of turkey and all the fixings.

One thing we got full on this weekend – hoops, and lots of them.

We had three women’s basketball teams playing in the finals of holiday tournaments and two of them came away with the tourney titles. Vermont and Hartford, two of the hottest teams in the conference right now, continued their winning ways with championships.

Vermont didn’t win six games all of last season. The Catamounts have obviously put their dreaded 5-25 campaign behind them as they are off to a 6-1 start. Lori Gear McBride and company took top honors at the Husky Classic in Houston, Texas. The Cats fast start caught the eye of Graham Hays who mentioned the “Green Mountain Turnaround” in his blog post last night. It’s still early, Hays says, but 6-1 after 5-25 is certainly something that deserves mention.

Hartford, meanwhile, got some love from Hays as well. The Hawks, which beat TCU and Central Florida in UCF’s tournament, take on Marist this Thursday in what Hays calls a “test” for 5-1 Hartford. That lone loss came at the hands of then second-ranked Notre Dame in the preseason WNIT.

Maine came dangerously close to winning its own Dead River Company Classic but fell to Brown on Saturday in overtime, 61-59.

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