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ALBANY, N.Y. - Ola Shajuyigbe totaled 21 points
and eight rebounds to lead The College of Saint Rose to a 65-57
Northeast-10 women's basketball win over Southern New Hampshire
University at Nolan Gymnasium Tuesday night. The Golden
Knights improved to 6-9 overall and 5-5 in the NE-10, while the
Penmen are now 9-8 and 5-5 in the league.
Shajuyigbe finished 7-11 from the
floor and knocked down both of her three-point attempts.
Elizabeth Buckley was 3-6 behind the arc and finished with 15
points, while Ashley Rath added 14 points for Saint Rose.
Sophomore Christine
Duffy (South Boston, Mass.) led Southern New Hampshire
with a career-high 17 points, going 6-8 from the floor while also
handing out four assists. Ashara Carrington
(Marblehead, Mass.), while Andrea Lozeau (Pelham,
N.H.) had a career-high nine points, going 2-3 behind the
arc. Sloane Sorrell (Berwick, Maine) chipped
in with eight points.
Saint Rose led by 12, 48-36, with
7:04 remaining following a Rath three-pointer, but the Penmen would
go on a 12-3 run to cut the lead to three, 51-48, with 2:49 left
following a three-point play by Lozeau. Buckley would knock
down a three on the next Golden Knight possession to double the
hosts' lead, and following an empty Penmen trip, Lynsey Tymbrouck
sank a pair of free throws with 2:05 left to make it a 56-48
game. SNHU would get it down to four, 56-52, with just over a
minute left on a pair of Carrington free throws, but Saint Rose
went 9-12 from the free throw line the rest of the way to seal the
win.
Trailing 28-18 at halftime,
Southern New Hampshire opened the second half on a 13-3 run, and a
conventional three-point play by Jenny McDade
(Derry, N.H.) with 13:45 to play tied the game 31-31. Saint
Rose countered with a 10-2 run and a layup by Rath gave the Golden
Knights a 41-33 lead with 10:25 remaining.
SNHU opened up a 9-5 lead 4:25 into
the game following a three-pointer by Lozeau. The Golden
Knights would hold the Penmen to just one field goal over the next
eight-plus minutes and used an 18-2 run to build a 23-11 lead with
just under eight minutes left in the first half. The two
teams would trade baskets the rest of the first half and Saint Rose
went into the locker room up 28-18.
Southern New Hampshire was 12-19
from the floor in the second half while limiting the Golden Knights
to 10-31 shooting over the final 20 minutes, but Saint Rose was
7-21 behind the arc as opposed to SNHU's 4-11 effort. Saint
Rose held a 35-31 rebounding advantage.
Southern New Hampshire returns to
action Sunday afternoon when it hosts Le Moyne College in a 1:30
contest at the SNHU Fieldhouse.
