BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY – The St. Francis Brooklyn women's basketball team (6-3) picked up its second consecutive victory against the Saint Peter's Peacocks (4-6) in comeback fashion on Monday evening. The Terriers improve to 12-4 at the Pope Physical Education Center throughout the past two seasons.
Coming home to Brooklyn after a triple-overtime victory, the Terriers opened the game with a jumper from
Dominique Ward to get things started. St. Francis hit a bump in the road when the Peacocks scored seven unanswered points just before the media timeout to jumpstart their team in the early going, 10-4.
Late in the first quarter, a fight for the ball between
Ebony Horton and Tyara McQueen eventually led to a triple from the left wing by leading scorer
Jade Johnson.
With the deficit at five at the mid-point of the second quarter, a pass down low to the 6-foot-1
Ally Lassen fights her way against the Peacocks' Princess Featherson to narrow the lead down to three.
The Terriers controlled the bulk of the second half, as they scored a combined 39 compared to 31. With the Terriers down a single-point at the 2:56 mark in the third quarter,
Amy O'Neill stole a Saint Peter's inbounds pass, and took the ball coast-to-coast and finished with a layup to put her team up by one (48-47).
In the fourth quarter, After the Terriers went on a 12-0 run, the Peacocks went on a 14-4 run of their own, down the stretch. With 44.2 seconds remaining in regulation, a pull-up jumper from
Dominique Ward from the charity stripe, made all the difference as she sank the game-winning bucket to lead her squad to their sixth win of the season.
St. Francis Brooklyn shot 28-of-63 from the field (44.4%), along with 13-of-17 from the free-throw line. The Terriers won the battle in the paint (42-34) and scored 10 fast break points.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
St. Francis Brooklyn – 74 | Saint Peter's – 70
- Junior guard Jade Johnson led her team in scoring for the third consecutive game, as she netted 23 points and converted 9-of-15 from the field. Johnson also grabbed five rebounds.
- Graduate guard Dominique Ward sank the game-winning shot from the charity stripe with 44.2 seconds remaining on the clock, as she added points 11 and 12 to her total on the day. Ward also scooped five rebounds and converted 5-of-9 from the field.
- Senior guard Amy O'Neill was one point away from her second consecutive double-double, and third on the season. O'Neill tallied 10 assists and nine points on the evening.
- Freshman guard Ebony Horton dropped 13 points, grabbed five rebounds, and swiped two steals. She converted 4-of-9 from the field and sank both triples from beyond-the-arc as well.
- Sophomore forward Ally Lassen continued to come in the clutch, as she powered her way to six points, and grabbed four rebounds in 12 minutes of play off the bench.
- Sophomore forward Abby Anderson notched seven points, added five rebounds, and registered one steal. Anderson converted 3-of-7 from the field on the evening.
UP NEXT:
The Terriers welcome America East opponent the Albany Great Danes on Saturday, December 15, at 1 p.m. At halftime of the contest, St. Francis Brooklyn will be retiring the jersey of one of the program's all-time leading scorers Jeanne Zatorski's number 15.
