LOWELL, Mass. – The UMass Lowell (4-20, 1-11) women's basketball team was defeated, 73-46, by the Maine Black Bears (20-7, 11-1) Thursday night at Costello.

Nicole Hayner (Bedford, N.H.) scored a game-high 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting from beyond the arc, and Kayla Gibbs (Teaneck, N.J.) chipped in 14 points and grabbed nine points.

"Maine's a great team and I'm really excited to see what they do in tournament play," said Head Coach Jenerrie Harris. "We wanted to get the ball inside against their defense to get some good looks to feed Kayla and Nikki, but we had too many turnovers tonight."

The Black Bears started the game on a 11-0 run before Gibbs got the hosts on the board with 2:35 remaining in the quarter. The bucket spearheaded an 11-4 run for the River Hawks to close the quarter, capped by a Hayner three-pointer at the buzzer, cutting the gap to 15-11 heading into the second.

Asia Mitchell-Owens (Roxbury, Mass.) bookended the quarter break with a triple of her own, and UMass Lowell trailed 15-14 with 9:45 left in the first half. Led by Sigi Koizar's 18 points in the opening 20, Maine outscored the River Hawks 20-10 to end the half and hold a 35-24 upper hand at halftime.

Hayner connected on her 100^th career three just under three minutes into the third, bringing UMass Lowell within 39-27. The junior scored six points in the quarter, Lindsey Doucette (Hopkinton, Mass.) added four, and Gibbs became the first River Hawk in double-digits.

Hayner continued her hot hand and added two triples in the fourth to finish her night, and hit all but UMass Lowell's six threes.

Koizar scored 32 points for the Black Bears on 13-of-20 (65%), while Sophie Weckstrom and Mikaela Gustafsson added 11 and 10, respectively.

Both teams shot more than 40 percent, with Maine finishing at 47.7 percent (31-65) and the River Hawks at 19-of-44 (43.2%).

UMass Lowell heads back out on the road, taking on UMBC at 1 p.m. for a Valentine's Day matinee.