RINDGE, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's basketball team defeated Franklin Pierce University, 63-49, on Saturday at the Fieldhouse in a Northeast 10 Conference contest.
Highlights
- Saint Anselm improves to 42-27 in the all-time series against Franklin Pierce, its third straight victory over the Ravens.
- The Hawks are now 8-3 on the year with a 3-3 mark in NE10 play.
- Junior Kaitlin McDonough scored a career high 22 points, shooting 9-14 from the field while corralling 10 rebounds in 30 minutes off the bench. McDonough recorded her second career double-double and had two assists and a steal.
- Freshman Amarilis Shubick also posted a career-high in scoring with nine points, knocking down a pair of threes with two rebounds, two assists, and a block in 29 minutes.
- Senior Anna Nelson filled up the stat sheet with 10 points, a career-high eight rebounds, and five assists in 39 minutes.
How it Happened
Franklin Pierce opened up with a 6-0 lead, but McDonough checked in off the bench and scored eight of the first 11 points for the Hawks to lead the comeback effort as Saint Anselm trailed by just one after the first quarter, 12-11.
McDonough carried her momentum from the first to the second, scoring six more points to give the Hawks a 21-18 lead as she paced Saint Anselm with under four minutes to play in the half. After trailing by one at the end of the first, a late three-pointer from junior
Meghan Trapper put Saint Anselm in front by one at the break, 24-23.
Saint Anselm started the second half on a 13-1 run fueled by a pair of Shubick three-pointers, and the third quarter belonged to the Hawks as they went into the fourth leading 47-36.
Junior
Elise MacNair led the Hawks offense in the fourth, scoring nine of the first 10 points as Saint Anselm maintained its lead, defeating the Ravens 63-49.
Up Next
The Saint Anselm women's basketball team (8-3, 3-3 NE10) will host Southern Connecticut State University (10-4, 5-1 NE10) on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 19, at 1:30 p.m. in another NE10 matchup at Stoutenburgh Gymnasium.
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