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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Adriana Johnson totaled 22
points and converted a pair of free throws with 11.3 seconds
remaining in overtime to lift American International College to a
66-65 Northeast-10 women's basketball win over Southern New
Hampshire University at the SNHU Fieldhouse Sunday afternoon.
The Yellow Jackets won their fourth in a row to move to 6-8 and 4-5
in the NE-10, while the Penmen are now 9-7 and 5-4 in the league.
Johnson, who totaled eight of AIC's
10 points in the extra frame, was 8-16 from the floor and 6-8 at
the free throw line. Kristin Boesenberg was 5-11 from
three-point land and finished with 17 points, with 12 of those
coming in the first half, while Rhea Pascal added 10 points.
Jenny McDade
(Derry, N.H.) led Southern New Hampshire with 24 points, matching
her career high, on 7-14 shooting, while registering her fifth
double-double of the season by hauling in 12 rebounds.
Freshman Sloane Sorrell (Berwick, Maine) also
matched her career high with 20 points, going 9-12 from the floor,
and grabbing six rebounds. Ashara Carrington
(Marblehead, Mass.) added 10 points off the bench.
In a overtime session that saw four
lead changes, the Penmen took a 63-60 lead with 2:32 left when
Sorrell knocked down a 15-footer from the left wing. The
Yellow Jackets would score the next four points, and a basket by
Johnson with 1:26 to play put the guests up 64-63. The two
teams would trade empty possessions, and on an SNHU possession,
Christine Duffy (South Boston, Mass.) would go to
the basket and get fouled with 20 seconds left. She made both
free throws to five the Penmen a 65-64 lead.
Johnson would be fouled going to
the basket with 11.3 seconds to play, and after making the first
free throw to tie the game, Southern New Hampshire would call
timeout. Johnson would make the second free throw. The
Penmen would get one final look, but a three by Duffy from 22 feet
was off the mark.
Southern New Hampshire trailed
28-21 at halftime and by nine early in the second half, but used a
13-0 run to take a 36-32 lead with 13:25 left following a three by
McDade. The two teams were knotted 40-40 with just under 10
minutes to play following a pair of Boesenberg free throws, but the
Penmen reeled off 10 unanswered points and a Sorrell basket with
6:29 left gave the hosts a 50-40 lead.
American International used a 10-2
run to cut a nine point lead down to one, 54-53, with 1:28 left
following a basket by Johnson. Sorrell would work her way
inside for a layup with just over a minute to play to give the
Penmen a three-point cushion, but on the next AIC possession,
Boesenberg would knock down her fifth three of the game to tie the
game 56-56. The Penmen got a look inside with 26 seconds to
go, but McDade's layup was off the mark. SNHU controlled the
offensive rebound, but neither team would get a shot off as they
traded turnovers down the stretch.
SNHU and AIC traded the lead five
times in the game's opening minutes, but the Yellow Jackets would
use a 10-0 run to build a 17-8 lead with 11:06 left in the first
half following a basket by Michelle Lafond. The Penmen would
chip away at the lead and trailed 25-21 with 39 seconds left before
intermission on a layup by Carrington, but Boesenberg would hit a
three on the final American International possession to give the
guests a seven-point advantage at the break.
Southern New Hampshire held a
commanding 43-29 lead in the rebounding department that lead to a
19-7 edge in second chance points, but the Penmen would be haunted
by 25 turnovers that led to 32 AIC points. SNHU was 17-24 at
the free throw line while the Yellow Jackets converted 13 of their
16 trips to the line.
Southern New Hampshire is back in
action Tuesday night when it travels to The College of Saint Rose
for a 5:30 Northeast-10 contest.
