HARTFORD, Conn. — Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored 19 points and Bria Hartley added 18 to help No. 4 Connecticut beat third-ranked Notre Dame 63-54 on Tuesday night and win its fifth straight Big East tournament championship.

UConn’s Geno Auriemma became the sixth coach to reach 800 career victories, reaching the milestone in fewer games than anybody else.

The Huskies denied Notre Dame its first Big East tournament title. The Irish, who won the outright regular-season title for the first time, have made the tournament championship game six times and lost each one to the Huskies (29-4).

UConn also ended a rare three-game losing streak to the Irish. Notre Dame beat them in the national semifinals last season and then swept the two regular- season meetings this year.

Skylar Diggins scored 16 points to lead Notre Dame (30-3).

SNOWBOARDING

University of Maine at Farmington senior and Cumberland native Katie Keough defended her women’s snowboarding giant slalom title at the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association national championships at Sunday River on Monday.

Keough turned in a two-run time of 2:26.35 to eke out the win over Westminister College’s Claire Gentile (2:26.70).

In 2011, Keough edged Loyola Marymount University’s Kaylee Taylor for the victory in Idaho to become Farmington’s first national champion.

SOFTBALL

SAN DIEGO 7, MAINE 4: Jean Stevens went 1 for 2 with one run scored as the University of Maine (4-11) fell to the University of San Diego (10-6) at San Diego.

SAN DIEGO STATE 8, MAINE 0: The Black Bears fell behind 6-0 in the first inning and could not battle back as San Diego State (13-11) took down Maine (4-12) in five innings at San Diego.

MEN’S LACROSSE

UNE 7, SOUTHERN MAINE 5: Mike Pennacchio finished with three goals, and Tyler Thomas had two goals and two assists to lead the University of New England (3-0) back from a two-goal deficit to defeat the University of Southern Maine (0-1) at Gorham.

Trailing 3-1 at halftime, the Nor’easters scored five goals in a span of 4:10 in the third quarter and held the lead from there on the strength of a 42-27 shots-on-goal advantage.

Dan O’Gorman chipped in a pair of assists for UNE. Steve Ribero had two goals and an assist for the Huskies.

ST. JOSEPH’S 16, THOMAS 0: Jonathan Horgan finished with five goals, and Max Meserve added a goal and four assists to lead St. Joseph’s (1-1) past Thomas (0-1) at Portland.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

BATES 11, BABSON 8: Joan O’Neill, the leading scorer in the NESCAC last season, had a career-high six goals and added an assist as the No. 18 nationally ranked Bobcats (1-0) overcame a 7-3 deficit to defeat the Beavers (0-1) at Lewiston.

BASEBALL

STETSON 3, MAINE 2: Mitchel Brennan scored the winning run on a balk by Mike Connolly in the bottom of the eighth inning as the University of Maine (3-6) fell to Stetson University (10-2) at DeLand, Fla.

Connolly, in his first career start, gave up three hits over 71/3 innings and finished with seven strikeouts.

Michael Fransoso led the Black Bears with a pair of hits, including a triple, and a run scored, and Alex Calbick had a single and a sacrifice fly.

MEN’S HOCKEY

The Hockey East quarterfinal series between the University of Maine and Merrimack this weekend will be televised in Maine. The best-of-three series features games at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

In southern Maine, WPME-TV will televise the games. In the north, WABI-TV will televise Friday’s game, and its sister CW station will televise Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday.

NOTES

Georgetown great Patrick Ewing and former Kansas star Clyde Lovellette lead a 10-member class that will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in November. The two post players will be joined by North Carolina’s Phil Ford, Wyoming’s Kenny Sailors, Grambling’s Willis Reed and Winston-Salem State’s Earl Monroe. Also inducted will be Joe B. Hall, who followed Adolph Rupp as the coach of Kentucky, and Dave Robbins, who won more than 700 games at Virginia Union. Businessmen Jim Host and Joe Dean will go in as contributors.