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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Stephanie Houghton (Manchester, NH) totaled a season-high 19 points to lead Southern New Hampshire University to a 64-57 Northeast-10 women's basketball victory over The College of Saint Rose at the SNHU Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon.  The Penmen won their third in a row and eighth in their last nine games to improve to 10-5 and 5-5 in the NE-10, while the Golden Knights are now 9-6 and 4-6 in the league.

Houghton, who also grabbed six rebounds, went 6-7 from the floor and connected on both of her three-point attempts while also going 5-6 at the free throw line.  Ashara Carrington (Marblehead, MA) went 7-10 from the floor and finished with 16 points and five rebounds, while Julia Houghtaling (Franconia, NH) added nine points and seven rebounds.

Lauren Revesz led Saint Rose with 16 points while also grabbing seven rebounds.  Elizabeth Buckley registered 14 points, while Dana Brown added 13 points.

Southern New Hampshire led virtually the entire second half and used a 7-0 spurt to take its largest lead of the game, 52-42, with 5:08 to play on a layup by Houghton.  Saint Rose then used a 10-2 run of its own to cut the lead to two, 54-52, with 2:08 to play on an Ashley Anderson layup.  The Penmen would counter on their next possession when Carrington converted a tough layup under the basket with 1:53 to play to up the lead to four.

Saint Rose came up empty on its next possession and the Penmen converted 3-of-4 at the line to make it 59-52 with 50 seconds to play.  Buckley would hit a three with 25 seconds left to cut the lead to four, but SNHU went 5-6 at the line the rest of the way to seal the win.

Neither side led by more than five points in a first half that saw six ties and eight lead changes.  The Penmen took a 24-23 lead with 1:14 left in the first frame on a three from the right corner by Houghton, but Saint Rose scored the final four points of the first half and a layup by Liz Tremblay with 23 seconds before halftime gave the Golden Knights a 27-24 lead at intermission.

Southern New Hampshire shot 62.5% (15-24) over the final 20 minutes and 51.1% for the game while limiting Saint Rose to 33.8% shooting for the game.  The Penmen also generated 12 more free throw opportunities, going 14-20 from the stripe while Saint Rose was 7-8.  SNHU held a 37-34 rebounding advantage.

SNHU is idle until next Saturday when it travels to Assumption College for a 1:30 contest.

NOTES: With two assists Saturday, Houghton moved into 10^th place on SNHU's career assists list...she also jumped two places to 18^th on the school scoring list...Carrington earned her first start of the season after coming off the bench in 13 of SNHU's first 14 games.