READING, Pa. – After rallying from a tied score at halftime, the Albright women's basketball team picked up a 70-48 conference win against Arcadia in the Bollman Center on Wednesday evening.
With the win, Albright improves to 18-1 on the season and 9-1 in MAC Commonwealth play. Arcadia falls to 9-10 overall and 4-6 in the conference.
The sophomore pair of
Dejah Terrell and
Gabby Boggs picked up double-doubles in the victory and four Albright Lions registered double-digit scoring. Terrell scored 22 points and pulled down 12 rebounds, while also tallying four assists and four blocks for the Lions. Also grabbing 12 rebounds, Boggs scored eleven points and added a block and a steal. Classmate
Amina Rauf scored 14 points and added four three-pointers, and
Maggie O'Hare recorded 12 points on the night along with six rebounds.
Terrell opened the contest with three consecutive jumpers for a 6-2 Albright run. The Lions held a five point at the 4:52-mark, but the Knights ended the first quarter on a 9-0 run for the 15-11 lead going into the second. Arcadia kicked off the second quarter with a jumper in the paint from Taylor Fritz and Albright dropped the Knights' lead to two at the 7:34-mark. A layup from Taylor Dunn and free throws from Julia Makowski again put Arcadia up by five points with six minutes left in the half. At the 5:38-mark, Rauf hit a three-pointer for a 23-21 Arcadia lead and one minute later, a three-point play from senior
Hailey Dayton regained the lead for Albright, 24-23. Albright increased its lead to as much as three points, but with 42 seconds remaining, Fritz tied the game at 29 with a good layup. A jumper from Terrell put the Lions up by two points, but a shooting foul called with under a second remaining led to two points on free throws from Taylor Dunn for a score of 31-31.
The first point in the third quarter only came at the 6:21-mark on another three-pointer from Rauf. The Lions only allowed four points from the Knights in the third quarter and scored 18 of their own. Third quarter scoring was led by Rauf with six points and Terrell added two blocks on defense in the 10 minutes. Sophomore
Abby Gaffney, Boggs, and O'Hare each added four points in the quarter. The final 10 minutes of the game saw 21 points from Albright and 13 from Arcadia. The Lions went 27-of-60 (45%) in the quarter as the Knights shot 38 percent (5-of-13) to close the game with a final score of 70-48.
For the Knights, Makowski led the way with 16 points and six rebounds behind 4-of-10 from the floor, 2-of-2 from deep, and 6-of-6 from the line. Fritz added 10 points and four rebounds for Arcadia, while Dunn and Sidney Barrer picked up two assists apiece.
The Lions shot 45 percent (27-of-60) from the floor, 27.8 percent (5-of-18) from deep, and 68.8 percent (11-of-16) from the line. The Knights shot 16-of-52 (30.8%) from the field, 2-of-12 (16.7%) from three, and an impressive 14-of-14 (100%) on free throws. Albright tallied 36 points in the paint and 23 points off 18 Arcadia turnovers.
Albright women's basketball will return to action on Wednesday, Feb. 5 as they travel to Stevenson for an 8 p.m. tip-off.
