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84
St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY
86
Winner Saint Francis (PA) SF-PA
St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY
84
Final
86
Saint Francis (PA) SF-PA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
St. Francis Brooklyn SF-NY 16 15 22 31 84
Saint Francis (PA) SF-PA 19 22 23 22 86

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | David Halstead

Thomas scores career-high as Red Flash pull out 86-64 win over the Terriers

Loretto, Pa. – Haley Thomas (Hooversville, PA/Bishop McCort) scored a career-high 27 points and the Red Flash held off a late Terriers rally as the Saint Francis women's basketball team (13-14, 10-5 NEC) picked up an 86-84 win over St. Francis Brooklyn (15-12, 9-6 NEC) on Monday at DeGol Arena. Jess Kovatch (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) added 24 points and a career-high seven assists for the Red Flash.

Robinson Fruchtl's Reaction
"It was a great battle," Interim Head Coach Susan Robinson Fruchtl said. "Those are the games for players that are really fun to play in. The competition is at a high level. As a coach, it's a great game to coach in. You don't know how it's going to end up at times, but both teams played incredibly hard."

First Quarter Recap
  • Thomas scored the first eight points for the Red Flash as SFU trailed 9-8 with 5:16 to play in the opening period
  • Saint Francis took a 14-11 lead following a Kovatch jumper with 3:26 remaining
  • Kovatch connected on a three-pointer with 51 seconds to go as the Red Flash held a 19-16 lead at the end of the first stanza
Second Quarter Recap
  • A seesaw beginning to the second period saw the Red Flash seize a 29-26 lead following back-to-back Kovatch three-pointers with 4:23 to play
  • Kovatch continued to pile on the points as she connected on a jumper to cap a 13-2 Red Flash run and put SFU ahead 39-28 with 1:04 to go
  • Courtney Zezza's (Plum, PA/Plum) jumper with eight seconds left gave the Red Flash a 41-31 halftime advantage
Third Quarter Recap
  • The teams continued to trade baskets as a Karson Swogger (Bellwood, PA/Bellwood-Antis) layup made SFU's lead 49-40 with 5:16 remaining in the third period
  • Two Leah Morrow (Columbus, Ohio/Columbus Africentric) free throws followed by an Aunesha Williams (Miami, FL/McEachern (Morgan State)) layup gave the Red Flash its largest lead of the night at 60-45 with 3:11 to play
  • The Terriers pulled within 11 as a layup at the buzzer cut SFU's lead to 64-53 at the end of the third frame
Fourth Quarter Recap
  • Saint Francis led 68-56 before the Terriers used a 13-2 run to trim the Red Flash's lead to 70-69 with 4:18 remaining in the contest
  • Back-to-back AJ Timbers (Philadelphia, PA/Neumann Gorretti (Towson)) trifectas put SFU ahead 76-71 with 3:30 to go
  • The Terriers closed the gap to 84-82 with 33 seconds left
  • Swogger converted on 1-of-2 free throws and the Red Flash came up with a defensive stand as SFU led 85-82 with 11 seconds to play
  • Thomas iced the game with 1-of-2 free throws in the final seconds as a Terriers layup with less than one tick on the clock produced the 86-84 final score
Notes
  • SFU moved into sole possession of third place in the NEC standings with three games to play in the regular season
  • The Red Flash shot 33-of-70 from the floor, including 6-of-22 from three-point range and 14-of-18 from the free throw line
  • The Terriers held a 45-37 advantage on the boards
  • SFU pounded the ball down low, scoring 48 points in the paint compared to St. Francis Brooklyn's 42 points inside
  • The game was tied five times with six lead changes
Up Next
Saint Francis hits the road for its final three regular season games as the Red Flash travel to face second place Sacred Heart on Saturday, March 2 at 1 p.m.
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