LORETTO, PA- Saint Francis tied a school record with 17 made threes and the Flash ran their win streak to four with a 87-67 victory over the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights on Monday night in DeGol Arena. 

Jessica Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) continues to lead the Flash, scoring a game-high 26 points and making six of the team's 17 threes in the contest. Katie Reese (Boonton Township, N.J./Mountain Lakes) had a career-high 21 points while Maya Wynn (Reisterstown, Md./McDonogh) chipped in 14 to put three players in double figures. The trio each had three assists as SFU tallied 20 helpers on 29 made field goals on Monday night. 

The two teams traded runs in the early going of the first quarter, and split the first 18 points. The Knights would slowly build their biggest lead of the game, six points, at 18-12 by holding the Flash scoreless for a two-minute stretch midway through the first. However, the Flash closed the quarter with a flurry, forcing four turnovers in the final 90 seconds, turning the miscues into 10 unanswered points. The Knights' last lead of the game came at 22-20 and SFU led 30-22 after the first quarter. For the game, SFU turned 26 Knight miscues into 29 points. 

Reese and Kovatch would get hot early in the second quarter, trading threes to spark a 9-0 run and build the Flash lead to 15 at 39-24 and forcing a FDU timeout. The Knights would get no closer than 13 the rest of the quarter in part because of Taylor Allison (State College, Pa./State College). The State College native, scored all five of her points in a two-minute stretch to close the half with Saint Francis leading 48-33.

The Flash continued to push the tempo in the second half and never let Fairleigh Dickinson get back into the contest. SFU held the Knights without a field goal for nearly four minutes in the third quarter while building a 23-point advantage. Kovatch continued her scoring binge with three triples in the quarter and Saint Francis put the game out of reach, leading 71-47 after three. 

The lead would grow to as many as 30 in the fourth quarter as Saint Francis held the Knights in check. Kelsey Cruz, who had 30 in a win at Robert Morris, was held to just 16 as she battled foul trouble. Both teams would empty their benches down the stretch as the Flash moved to 7-10 overall and 5-1 in NEC play for the first time since the 2010-11 season, the last time the Flash won the NEC. The win also eclipses the total wins from last season and matches the Flash's NEC wins from a year ago. 

Erika Livermore had 20 points to lead the Knights who dropped to 5-14 overall and 2-4 in league play. The Knights out rebounded Saint Francis 44-40 but it was SFU who held a slim 20-19 edge in second-chance points. For the second-straight contest, the Flash gave their opposition fits from three, holding the Knights to just 1-10 from deep, Mount Saint Mary's was just 1-12 on Saturday. 

The Flash will look continue their NEC hot streak on Saturday as they start their longest NEC road trip of the season with the Central Connecticut Blue Devils. Tip time from New Britain is set for 1 p.m..