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Delaware 88, Vermont 85 January 6, 2001 Ames Last-Minute Heroics Lead Blue Hens Mike Ames BURLINGTON, VT -- Freshman guard Mike Ames scored five of his career-high 11 points in the last 30 seconds as the University of Delaware held off Vermont, 88-85, in America East men's basketball at the Patrick Gym on Saturday afternoon. The game featured 12 ties and 17 lead changes before an Ames' three-pointer deep in the corner gave the Blue Hens (7-7 overall, 4-2 America East) an 84-80 advantage with 30 seconds left. Ames and Billy Wells each made a pair of free throws down the stretch to hold off yet another Vermont charge and hand the Catamounts their fifth straight loss. Ames matched his career high of 11 points vs. Rider back on Dec. 16. Vermont's Grant Anderson hit a layup with two seconds left to play to cut the lead to 86-85 but Wells followed with two free throws one second later to ice the win. The win, coupled by Delaware's 81-53 win at Hartford Thursday night, marked the second straight year that the Hens have swept the difficult Hartford-Vermont road swing. Prior to last season, the Hens had not swept the series since 1992-93. "This is a great win for us," said Delaware head coach David Henderson, "This is obviously a tough place to play. We didn't play a pretty basketball game, but our perimeter guys did a good job most of the day and we pulled out the win. Mike Ames did a great job. He stepped up a like a big time player and knocked down that big shot." The Hens, who won their second straight game and moved to .500 for the first time since being 5-5 on Dec. 20, got a balanced effort as five different Blue Hens scored in double figures and the Hens shot 51.9 percent from the field (28 of 54). Delaware dished out assists on 22 of its 28 baskets. Ajmal Basit led the Hens with 19 points and seven rebounds while Austen Rowland and Wells each scored 15 points and Ames and Maurice Sessoms each chipped in with 11 points. Ryan Iversen came off the bench to score eight points, pull six rebounds, and dish out four assists. Delaware overcame a season-high 23 turnovers by going 12-for-19 (63 percent) from three-point range and 20-for-25 (80 percent) from the line. The Hens hit on 6 of their 12 three-point attempts in the second half and committed just five of those turnovers in the final 18 minutes of play. Freshman T. J. Sorrentine led Vermont (4-7, 1-2) with 19 points and with 10 assists and nine rebounds, nearly became the first Catamount since 1992 to record a 'triple-double'. Trevor Gaines added 18 points while Vermont received a boost from a pair of unheralded sophomores, Anderson and Corey Sullivan, who each scored 14. Tony Orciari, held to just 11, passed Joe Calavita (UVM '89) into fourth place on the Vermont career scoring list with 1,472 points. AGATE:   OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE -- G A M E T O T A L S Delaware vs Vermont 1/6/01 1 p.m. at Patrick Gym, Burlington, VT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISITORS: Delaware 7-7, 4-2 TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 03 BASIT, Ajmal f 6 14 0 0 7 7 4 3 7 3 19 1 5 1 0 27 44 SESSOMS, Maurice f 5 7 0 0 1 1 2 3 5 5 11 2 2 0 1 18 22 ROWLAND, Austen g 5 8 4 5 1 2 1 3 4 2 15 4 6 1 1 37 24 MILLER, Greg g 2 5 1 4 0 0 0 2 2 3 5 3 3 0 1 12 25 WELLS, Billy g 4 7 3 4 4 4 0 1 1 3 15 1 1 0 1 34 10 AMES, Mike 3 5 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 0 11 3 3 0 0 11 23 WENTT, Robin 1 1 0 0 2 4 0 1 1 2 4 2 1 0 1 18 32 IVERSEN, Ryan 2 7 1 3 3 5 2 4 6 0 8 4 2 1 2 27 33 KNITTER, Sean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 7 42 HINDENLANG, Dave 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 9 TEAM ........................................ 1 1 2 TOTALS 28 54 12 19 20 25 11 21 32 21 88 22 23 4 7 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 28-54 .519 Game: .519 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 12-19 .632 Game: .632 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 20-25 .800 Game: .800 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOME TEAM: Vermont 4-7, 1-2 TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 44 SULLIVAN, Corey f 4 9 2 5 4 4 1 2 3 5 14 0 0 1 0 27 45 GAINES, Trevor f 6 10 4 5 2 4 4 1 5 5 18 1 5 0 2 25 52 SHEFTIC, Matt c 3 6 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 6 2 2 1 1 23 11 SORRENTINE, T.J. g 5 10 3 6 6 6 3 6 9 1 19 10 4 0 3 36 14 ORCIARI, Tony g 3 10 2 5 3 4 1 3 4 2 11 0 4 0 3 40 15 ANDERSON, Andre 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 35 BARRETT, Erik 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 42 ANDERSON, Grant 7 10 0 0 0 1 7 2 9 1 14 2 2 0 2 18 43 JONES, Scotty 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 12 50 MCLAUGHLIN, Corry 1 2 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 0 0 10 TEAM ........................................ 1 1 2 TOTALS 29 62 11 22 16 26 17 18 35 24 85 16 19 2 12 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 29-62 .468 Game: .468 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 11-22 .500 Game: .500 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 0- 0 .000 2nd Half: 16-26 .615 Game: .615 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIALS: Vigna, Faia, Smith TECHNICAL FOULS: Delaware - none Vermont - none ATTENDANCE: 1,242 SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 TOTAL Delaware 38 50 88 Vermont 38 47 85   - DDD -