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Laycee Drake with the ball
Laycee Drake scored a team-high 16 points Saturday.
83
Winner La Salle LaS 11-9,4-5 Atlantic 10
74
St. Bonaventure SBU 12-9,3-6 Atlantic 10
Winner
La Salle LaS
11-9,4-5 Atlantic 10
83
Final
74
St. Bonaventure SBU
12-9,3-6 Atlantic 10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
La Salle LaS 19 28 25 11 83
St. Bonaventure SBU 16 10 21 27 74

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Dylan Nuzzo, Assistant Sports Information Director

Bonnies Fall to La Salle, 83-74, Despite Strong Second Half

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – The St. Bonaventure University women's basketball team made a comeback with a strong second half, but fell to La Salle, 83-74, Saturday afternoon at the Reilly Center.

Laycee Drake paced the Bonnies with 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Also finishing in double figures for the Bonnies was Olivia DiFranco with 12 points, Mallory Heise with 11 points and Brillana Boyd with 10 points. Boyd and Aaliyah Parker pulled down a team-best six rebounds for the Brown and White.

The Bonnies (12-9, 3-6 A-10) jumped out to an early 11-2 lead over the Explorers midway through the first quarter.

The Explorers (11-9, 4-5 A-10), however, ended the first with a 12-1 run to take a 19-16 advantage after the first period.

La Salle pushed the lead to double digits early in the second before Parker cut the deficit back to single digits, 31-22, with 7:22 left in the first half.

A 16-0 spurt from the Explorers saw the visitor's lead grow to 25 late in the second period.

Drake and Heise scored prior to the end of the quarter to cut the deficit to 21, 47-26, at the break.

A pair of free throws from Aryss Macktoon gave La Salle its biggest lead of the game, 62-34, with 4:12 showing on the clock in the third.

Bonnies head coach Jim Crowley made a hockey substitution midway through the third which provided a spark to try and mount a comeback.

Trailing entering the fourth, the Bonnies opened the final frame with an 11-0 run capped off by a Heise free throw to pull back within 14 with 6:08 left to play.

A 3-pointer from DiFranco with under a minute to play cut the Bonnies deficit back to single digits, but the Bonnies were forced to foul, sending the Explorers to the line to clinch the Atlantic 10 win.

GAME NOTES

  • The Bonnies finished the game shooting 48.2 percent (27-for-56) from the floor while La Salle shot 47.6 percent (30-for-63) from the field.
  • Bona's finished +39 in bench scoring, registering 47 points from reserves Saturday.
  • The Brown and White won the battle on the glass, outrebounding the Explorers, 36-30.

QUOTES FROM HEAD COACH JIM CROWLEY
"We were not playing the way that we want to play. We had 15 minutes and it looked like who we are. We dug too big of hole that we couldn't get out of. Credit to La Salle, they came in and played our way. They played with the kind of defensive energy and togetherness we need and played at a great pace offensively."

UP NEXT
The Bonnies head out on the road to take on Dayton Wednesday, Jan. 28. Tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m. at UD Arena.

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