TEANECK, N.J. (Feb. 9, 2015) – Saint Francis U led the majority of the contest against Fairleigh Dickinson, but surrendered a late comeback from the Knights and lost, 78-63, away from Loretto on Monday evening.

Corissa Archer (Clermont, Fla./East Ridge) led Saint Francis with a double-double effort as the senior posted 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds. Alexa Hayward (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) led all Flash players with 20 points, which included the first nine of the game that SFU scored.

Aisha Brock (Jacksonville, Fla./Potter's House Christian Academy) rounded out the players in double-figures as she dropped 10 points, but foul trouble cost the junior playing time during the contest. Saint Francis won the rebounding battle, 43-36, which included 17 offensive rebounds, but only resulted in 18 second chance points.

Hayward started the game scoring the first nine points for Saint Francis in under three minutes and it led 9-3. Fairleigh Dickinson battled back slowly but surely and took their first lead at 18-17 at the 9:08 mark. It was short lived as Corissa Archer (Clermont, Fla./East Ridge) converted a lay-in off a feed from Shaqeia Stokes (Cincinnati, Ohio/Winton Woods) and SFU was back in control.

Saint Francis did not allow the Knights to hold a lead the remainder of the frame and led by five at the break, 32-27. Hayward did not score again in the period following her nine-point outburst to begin the contest. Archer went to the locker room with seven points and eight rebounds, while Stokes collected five rebounds of her own.

In the second half of play, the Flash kept its lead for the first three minutes before FDU tied the game up at 37 all. The Red Flash forced FDU into committing seven team fouls early in the period and were shooting 1-and-1 about six minutes in.

Fairleigh Dickinson took its first lead of the second half at the 13:06 mark before Hayward and FDU's Valerie Oyakhilome went shot-for-shot as each made consecutive triples for their respective teams. The Knights came out of that encounter with a 54-50 advantage.

FDU extended its lead to double-figures shortly after and Saint Francis struggled to get back into the game. SFU went nearly four minutes without a field goal after Stokes bucket at the 5:39 mark.

Maya Wynn (Reisterstown, Md./McDonogh) finished with seven points and three steals for SFU, while Stokes posted seven points and five rebounds off the bench.

Saint Francis returns home on Saturday for its annual 'Think Pink Game' against LIU Brooklyn at 4 p.m.