PITTSBURGH – The St. Bonaventure University women's basketball team fell to Duquesne, 74-48, Wednesday morning at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh.
Freshman Mackenzie Pettinelli paced the Bonnies with 13 points on 4-of-7 shooting, including three 3-pointers. Redshirt senior Dani Haskell and freshman Caitlin Frost chipped in 10 points each for the Brown and White.
Pettinelli scored eight straight points for the Bonnies in the first quarter, giving the visitors an early 13-11 lead.
Duquesne, however, ended the first period with a 7-0 run to take a 18-13 advantage.
Frost tallied the Bonnies first five points of the second quarter as the two teams traded scores, making it a 24-18 game.
The hosts used an 11-2 run spanning over five minutes in the second to take their biggest lead of the half, 35-20.
Macy Smith and Duquesne's Gabby Hutcherson each made shots to end the first half as the Dukes led, 39-25, at the break.
Duquesne's lead grew to as many as 19 in the third quarter by way of a 7-0 spurt midway through the period.
Frost opened the scoring in the fourth, cutting the Duquesne lead to 59-43.
The Dukes, however, scored nine unanswered points to push their advantage to, 68-43, pulling away for good.
Megan McConnell tallied a game-high 25 points to go along with nine rebounds, six assists and three steals to lead Duquesne.
GAME NOTES
- The Bonnies finished the game shooting 32.7 percent (17-for-52) from the field while Duquesne shot 51.8 percent (29-for-56) from the floor.
- The Dukes outrebounded the Bonnies, 38-24.
- Zoe Shaw grabbed a team-high five rebounds and tallied eight points Wednesday.
- The Bonnies committed a season-low nine turnovers against the Dukes. It marked the first time this season with single-digit turnovers for the Bonnies.
QUOTES FROM HEAD COACH JIM CROWLEY
"I thought we gave ourselves a good opportunity for the most part. We stuck with the way we wanted to play. Sometimes there's complicated things, sometimes there's simple things. They made more shots than we did. I didn't think we gave them that many easy ones. McConnell had just one or two layups compared to a half dozen the first time we played them. Kiaku had two layups compared to the four the first time we played them. They shot the ball well and credit to them."
UP NEXT
The Bonnies return home for the regular season finale to host Dayton Saturday, March 1. Tipoff is slated for 1:00 p.m. at the Reilly Center.
Prior to tipoff Saturday, the Bonnies will honor Dani Haskell on Senior Day.
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