WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The Saint Anselm College women's basketball team picked up a huge road victory in Northeast-10 Conference play, downing the University of New Haven by a 58-50 margin at Charger Gymnasium.
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Saint Anselm moves to 12-4 overall on the season and to 8-2 against NE10 foes. New Haven, one of the top teams in the Southwest Division, falls to 11-5 and to 7-3 versus the conference.
Senior Shannon Ryan (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) scored 25 points with 13 rebounds, drawing eight fouls in the process. She now has scored 1,490 points in her career, moving past Candace Andrews '17 for sixth place in team history.
Junior Peyton Steinman (Pittsfield, Mass.) poured home 13 points with six rebounds and five assists and classmate Grace Guachione (Pittsfield, Mass.) logged 11 points.
With Saint Anselm by a 49-48 margin with under a minute to go, senior Sara Messler (Durham, N.H.) saved her first points of the game for a crucial moment. From long range, a Messler triple with 33 seconds to go in regulation time created a 52-48 bulge. Following a technical foul called on New Haven seconds later, Steinman hit on four consecutive free throws to extend the lead.
In a low-scoring first half, the Hawks trailed by as many as seven points but finished the second stanza strong. Scoring 12 of the final 15 points of the first half, Saint Anselm carried a 22-20 lead into the locker room despite shooting 25%, 8-for-32, from the floor.
Ahead by only two points entering the third quarter, 22-20, Saint Anselm posted an 11-1 scoring run near the midpoint of the third to establish a 10-point advantage. A stout Hawks defense kept New Haven to below 25% shooting from the field in the third.
The Chargers committed 26 miscues while the Hawks turned the ball over on 24 occasions. New Haven also outshot the Hawks in terms of field goal percentage, but Saint Anselm cashed in for 27 points off of Chargers mistakes. New Haven was led by 12 points from Micah Wormack and Camryn DeBose.
The Hawks head to central New York this Saturday, Jan. 25, taking on the Dolphins from Le Moyne College at 1 p.m. in a rematch of last season's NCAA Division II East Region Championship fixture.
