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PAIGE WBB VS UDC
Alahna Paige and Daemen women's basketball wrapped up regular season slate Saturday at Queens.
65
Winner Daemen DAEW 18-4,16-1 ECC
39
Queens (NY) QUEW 4-21,3-15 ECC
Winner
Daemen DAEW
18-4,16-1 ECC
65
Final
39
Queens (NY) QUEW
4-21,3-15 ECC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Daemen DAEW 18 13 16 18 65
Queens (NY) QUEW 10 12 6 11 39

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | By Joe Kraus, Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant

Daemen Wraps Up Regular Season Slate With 65-39 Win At Queens

Ivy scores team-high 14 points in second half, ECC Tournament now on horizon for Wildcats

FLUSHING, N.Y. – One chapter closes and another will soon open for Daemen women's basketball.

Behind balanced scoring and a galore of scoring sprees throughout the game, the Wildcats wrapped up their 2021-22 regular season campaign in style with a 65-39 victory against Queens College Saturday afternoon in Fitzgerald Gymnasium.

Coming off Thursday's win at Molloy that resulted in a third straight ECC regular season title and locking up the No. 1 seed for next week's ECC Tournament, the Wildcats received strong offensive production today from senior Mickayla Ivy (Grand Rapids, Mich.) who scored 12 of her team-high 14 points in the second half and tied for the team-high with eight rebounds. Senior guard Katie Titus (Penfield, N.Y.) and sophomore guard Kaytlyn Matz (Johnsburg, Ill.) also crossed double-figures in scoring with 13 points and 11 points, respectively.

With the victory, Daemen heads into postseason play with an 18-4 overall record, 16-1 in ECC play and are now winners in 16 of their last 17 contests. In what was being billed as their Senior Day contest and season finale, Queens finished 4-21 and 3-15 in ECC play.

Daemen secured a 9-0 lead just three minutes into the contest as Matz started the stretch with her lone three-point field goal of the day and shortly afterwards connected on a long jumper. Titus and redshirt senior Tiara Filbert (Batavia, N.Y.) also got in the scoring spree with a lay-up each before the Knights called a timeout with 7:24 left in the opening frame. The time-out sparked the Knights, who rattled off eight unanswered points – five coming from senior guard Nora Gabel alone – to cut the deficit to one point, 9-8, with 5:56 left. Daemen found some breathing room after Filbert's three-pointer and junior forward Marina Maerkl (Binghamton, N.Y.) old-fashioned three-play to five Daemen a seven-point lead. Titus' lone trey of the afternoon with 2:47 left ended the first quarter scoring (18-10 Daemen.)

After Titus made back-to-back baskets to open the second quarter, Queens ended its eight-minute scoring drought with a jumper from freshman Aalia Carlson with 7:52 remaining (22-12 Daemen.) The Knights kept the score at eight points on two separate occasions – the second time thanks to junior Khadija Demry's lay-up – to only trail Daemen 26-18 with just over four minutes left in the first half. A three-pointer from veteran Autumn Buchsenschutz (Port Allegany, N.Y.) and a Titus jumper gave the Wildcats their largest lead of the first half, 31-18, with 2:36 left. The Knights brought the score back within double-digits as Demry got the steal and went the length of the court for the lay-up with five seconds remaining. Daemen went into the locker room with a 31-22 lead.

The Knights kept the contest close as Carlson's basket brought Daemen's to within nine points once more, 35-26, with 7:48 left in the third quarter. However, the Daemen offense went on a game-changing 9-0 run over the next 4:05 to expand their lead up to 18 points, 44-26, with under four minutes left in the frame. Ivy had the exclamation point of the contest as, off a blocked shot from Titus, got the second-chance opportunity, drew the contact for the basket and later converted the free-throw. Freshman guard Sydney Hvizdzak (Little Valley, N.Y.) followed shortly after with a make from beyond the arc and Daemen had a 47-28 lead at the end of the third quarter.

The Wildcats secured the victory with an 18-7 run over almost eight minutes of the fourth quarter. Ivy scored seven points in the frame alone, including making just her second three-pointer of the season to conclude her scoring day at the 5:55 mark (58-34 Daemen.) Later, junior guard Sarah Cloutier (San Diego, Calif.) and her put-back basket gave Daemen a 31-point lead (65-34), the team's largest lead of the contest.

IMPACT PLAYERS
  • Along with the 14 points and eight rebounds, Ivy finished with four assists, two steals and a block in 30 minutes of action. Ivy has now finished in double-figure scoring 11 times this season, including in 10 of Daemen's last 18 contests.
  • After a 37-point outing in Thursday's win at Molloy, Titus finished 6-of-17 from the floor Saturday against Queens along with six rebounds and two assists. Titus has now reached double-figure scoring 21 times this season (18 consecutive.)
  • In 26 minutes of game action, Matz shot 5-of- 11 from the floor and recorded three rebounds and two assists. This was the fifth time this season and the sixth time in her career that Matz has finished in double-figure scoring.
  • In 27 minutes played, Filbert scored seven points and tied with Ivy for the team-high in rebounds (8.) Filbert also had two assists and one steal.
  • Sophomore guard Alahna Paige (Rochester, N.Y.) added six points and a team-high five assists in only 23 minutes played. Including her eight-assist outing at Molloy Thursday, Paige has now recorded five or more assists 12 times thus far in her Daemen career.
  • Senior guard Nora Gabel led Queens with 11 points on 5-of-15 shooting while junior guard Khadija Demry and freshman guard Aalia Carlson added 10 points apiece in today's loss. Freshman guard Chelsea Reeves was held to two points and six rebounds as well.
GAME NOTES
  • The Wildcats entered the game ranked 10th in the second of three NCAA Division East Region rankings leading up to the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Selection Show on Sunday, March 6.
  • Today marked the 16th all-time meeting between Daemen and Queens and the first since an 80-43 win on Jan. 16 held at Lumsden Gymnasium. The Wildcats have now won seven straight against the Knights and Queens now leads the all-time series, 9-7. Daemen is also 7-3 all-time against Queens in the Jenepher Banker era (2016-present.)
  • In the victory, the Wildcats shot 27-of-65 (41.5%) from the floor. Daemen also finished 7-of-31 (22.6%) from behind the arc against the Knights, four of which came in the first half alone.
  • Daemen recorded 17 assists on 27 field goals in today's win. The Wildcats have now dished 10 or more assists in 19 straight games.
  • Daemen finished 4-of-5 (80.0%) at the free-throw line against the Knights, marking only the fifth time this season (and now in consecutive contests) where the Wildcats did not record 10 or more free-throw attempts in a single contest. Including today's win, the blue-and-white are 5-0 this season in this category.
  • In the loss, Queens shot 16-of-61 (26.2%) from the floor and 1-of-15 (6.7%) from three-point land. Daemen is now 17-4 this season when an opponent shoots below 50 percent from the floor. The Knights, however, shot 6-of-7 (85.7%) from the free-throw line in today's defeat.
  • The Wildcats also out-edged the Knights in points in the paint (30-16), points off turnovers (12-8), second-chance scoring (10-6) and total rebounding (36-22.) Daemen also recorded 16 offensive rebounds in the victory.
  • Daemen has held 55 of its last 66 opponents to 65 points or less and are 50-5 in those games.
  • The 13-point outing tonight for Titus was enough for her to pass Bridgette Burke '11 for eighth all-time in career scoring among Daemen's all-time leaders. Titus also passed Joanna Daugenti '05 for sole possession of 10th all-time in career rebounding (745.) Titus has now scored 1,413 points along with 745 rebounds and 151 blocks in 95 career games (87 starts.) Titus also currently stands third all-time in career three-pointers (187) and is 13 away from becoming the third player to convert 200+ three-pointers in a Daemen career. Titus is just the fourth player in program history to reach 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks.
  • Saturday marked the 115th game (106th start) of Filbert's career. Filbert is currently 12th in career scoring with 1,339 points and is tied with Timyra Hudson '07 for ninth all-time in career assists (339.) Filbert has also recorded 581 rebounds and 136 career steals. Filbert is just the sixth player in program history with at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists.
  • Daemen is now 69-14 in its last 83 games, a span that dates back to mid-January of 2019. Daemen is also 57-9 in East Coast Conference play since the start of the 2018-19 season.
NEXT JUMP BALL
The Wildcats now prepare for next week's East Coast Conference tournament. Daemen is the No. 1 seed for the tournament, and as a result, will host the semifinal and final rounds of the tournament in Lumsden Gymnasium. Daemen will play in the first semifinal on Saturday, March 5 at 12 p.m. and will face the winner of No. 4 Roberts Wesleyan versus No. 5 Mercy in Rochester, NY on Wednesday, March 2. No. 3 St. Thomas Aquinas hosts No. 6 University of District Columbia in the other play-in game in Sparkill, NY. The winner advances to face No. 2 Molloy in next Saturday's second semifinal contest. The overall 2022 ECC Championship game will be played Sunday March 6 at 12 p.m. at Lumsden Gymnasium.
 

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