Staten Island, NY – The College of Staten Island Women's Basketball Team returned to conference action tonight as they were defeated by the Daemen College Wildcats, 76-59. The Dolphins fall to 2-6 on the season, 0-2 in conference play, while the Wildcats improve to 5-3 overall and remain perfect, 3-0, in conference play.

KEY MOMENTS

It was a hot start for the Wildcats who quickly jumped out to a nine-point lead, 12-3, but Noemia Massingue led the Dolphins offense back with nine first-quarter points that helped the Dolphins get back to within two. Now leading, 16-14, the Wildcats went on a 13-0 run to end the quarter and took a fifteen-point advantage into the second. CSI wouldn't get any closer than eleven for the rest of the half, and despite three second-quarter three-pointers, the Dolphins entered the halftime locker room still down fifteen. Both offenses came out stagnant in the third with both teams failing to score for over four and a half minutes at one point in the quarter. It was the Dolphins that brought an end to the scoreless stretch on a Gia Esposito three, but the Wildcats answered right back with two threes of their own and took a sixteen-point lead into the fourth. In the final quarter, the Dolphins scored the first eight points across four minutes to pull within eight, but another timely Wildcats three served as the dagger as CSI went on to lose by seventeen. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

It was another standout performance for Katie Titus who registered a 26-point, 16-rebound double-double coming off of 38 points in Daemen's last game. Kaytlyn Matz and Autumn Buchsenschutz combined to connect on eight threes in a game where the Wildcats hoisted up 38 attempts from downtown. The Dolphins shot a nearly identical percentage from long range, 37%, but they only took 22 shots from beyond the arc. The 14 made threes by the Wildcats as opposed to only 8 by the Dolphins ultimately proved to be the difference in the game.

DOLPHINS OF THE GAME

Noemia Massingue and Ashley Lambert earn Dolphin of the Game honors as they combined for 36 points. Massingue's 20 points kept the Dolphins within striking distance in the first half and Lambert's 16 helped ignite the second-half run that pulled the Dolphins within as little as eight.

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