Vestal, N.Y. -- The University of Maine women's basketball team extended its winning streak to seven after completing a weekend sweep of Binghamton with a 70-53 decision on Sunday afternoon. The Black Bears have now swept weekend series from each of their last three America East opponents.

Maine featured a balanced scoring attack with four players finishing in double-figures, led by Blanca Millan's 17 points to go along with six boards and three steals. Millan's three steals gave her 302 for her career, moving her past Liz Coffin and into second on Maine's all-time steals list. Dor Saar added 13 points with a trio of triples while Anne Simon and Maeve Carroll rounded out the double-digit scorers with 12 points apiece. Carroll led the Black Bears with eight boards while Fanny Wadling added her best effort of the season with eight points and seven rebounds off the bench.

Maine controlled the boards 43-35 while shooting 27-of-64 (42.2) from the floor with eight triples.

The Black Bears found themselves trailing by two early in the first but responded quickly with a 12-0 run to take an 18-8 edge on Alba Orois' triple with 1:24 left in the first.

A 7-0 Maine run early in the second, with buckets from Simon and Millan coming on either side of a Saar triple, gave the Black Bears their largest lead of the half, 27-12.

Binghamton would not go quiet, chipping the lead down to a pair before Simon's triple lifted Maine's lead back to five at the break.

The Bearcats would hang tough early in the second half, closing to within four with 7:01 to play in the third. A 9-0 run from Maine followed, spearheaded by a triple from Simon and four points by Carroll, as the Black Bears lead swelled back to double-figures, 48-37.

An 11-4 run from Maine seemed to put the game away early in the fourth as the Bearcats found themselves down 16 with 5:18 to play.

Maine would hold on, running its record to 12-1 and 9-1 in league play, by a final of 70-53.

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