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.

If you weren’t tuned into the Maine-Notre Dame game last night on ESPN3, you missed a good one.

The Black Bears has the Irish on the rope thanks in large part to a three-headed offensive monster comprised of Gerald McLemore, Justin Edwards and Alasdair Fraser. McLemore and Edwards both average 20+ points per game, the only conference tandem to do so, while Fraser averages just under 13 per.

And they didn’t disappoint last night.

The trio combined to score 64 of Maine’s 78 points and kept the Black Bears in the game with a chance to grab a signature win.

The Irish went on a 10-0 run very late in the second half to pull away from Maine and eventually win by the final of 87-78. In no way does that indicate just how close this one was. In fact, the game featured 7 ties and 15 lead changes before Notre Dame pulled away at the end.

The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald have all your game coverage. But you should really go back and watch the game and you can on ESPN3.

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