Staten Island, NY  |  The College of Staten Island Women's Basketball Team suffered their fourth straight defeat to open the season as they dropped today's game against the Eagles of Post University by a final score of 84-61.  The Dolphins trailed by twelve after the opening quarter and were never able to work their way back from that early deficit as they fell to 0-4 to start the 2019-2020 campaign while the Eagles improved their record to 3-1.

The Dolphins would score the first four points of the game, but not much went right in the opening frame from that point forward as the Eagles would register the next thirteen points of the game to go up by nine.  A Kayla Schmitter jumper would end the Post run at 13-0 and make it 18-8, but the Eagles took a 22-10 lead into quarter number two.

Kiera Fernandes opened the second with one of her four three-pointers to extend the Post lead to fifteen points, but Megan McEwan responded with a three of her own at the other end to bring CSI back within twelve.  Four straight points by the Hawks made it 29-13 before Schmitter continued her stellar first half with a finish inside to make it a fourteen-point game.

Denise Priolo connected from long range less than a minute later to get the Dolphins back within eleven.  However, CSI wouldn't get any closer than that in the first half and would go on to surrender an 8-0 run to put them behind nineteen with just 2:30 to play in the second quarter.  CSI would outscore the Eagles 6-4 over those last two and a half minutes, but that would only send them to the locker room down seventeen.

At the break, Post was shooting 16-37 from the floor while the Dolphins were only 10-29, and the Eagles out-rebounded CSI 27-14 in the first two quarters.  McEwan's 9 and Schmitter's 8 led CSI in scoring entering halftime while the Eagles had four different players, Kaetlyn Andres, Fernandes, Taylor Williams, and Sha'Raya Haines with at least 8 points.

Schmitter got the second half started with another finish at the rim, but the Eagles would go on yet another scoring run, this time 7-0 over the next 1:12, to extend their lead to 22 points.  With five and a half to play in the third, CSI found themselves down an even twenty and were able to get back within fifteen behind a 7-2 stretch.  Diedre Foster was the catalyst during the run as she scored five of the seven points.

Despite the push to get back within fifteen, CSI would not get any closer than that the rest of the way as the Eagles closed the third quarter leading by 20, ultimately extending their final margin of victory to 23 in the final frame.  The big Post victory was due in large part to their work on the glass, 43-33 over CSI, and their five players that contributed double-figures in a 50% team shooting performance.  For the Dolphins, both Schmitter and McEwan scored over twenty, 21 and 22 respectively, but the team shot only 33.9% from the floor.

Next up for the Dolphins is a meeting with fellow East Coast Conference member New York Tech on the road this Wednesday night at 5 PM.

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