SCORE: UAlbany 67, Siena 42
 
LOCATION: Broadview Center - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 3-2, 0-0 America East | Siena 0-5, 0-0 MAAC
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Danes beat Siena in a dominant fashion to take home the Albany Cup, Wednesday night.
 
KEY STATS

• Sophomore Martina Borrellas led the team with a double-double - 15 points and 10 rebounds.
• Freshman Amaya Stewart totaled a team-high 17 points.
• Four Great Danes scored in the double digits - Stewart, Borrellas, junior Lara Langerman (career-high - 14), and sophomore Delanie Hill (10).
• Graduate Júlia Palomo Vicente scored her 1000th career point with her second field goal of the night.
• Langerman was perfect from beyond the arc (3-3).
• As a team, UAlbany outshot Siena from three, posting a 44.4% from three-point range compared to the Saints 16.7%. At half, the Great Danes were 16-27 (59.3%) from the field with a 60% accuracy from deep.
• The Great Dane defense prevented Siena from holding the lead at any point in the contest. 

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The game started as a defensive stalemate with neither team able to get on the board for nearly two minutes. 
• It was Lara Langerman who got the scoring started when she made a layup with 8:02 left in the first.
• Two minutes later, Júlia Palomo Vicente started a 13-5 run that lasted the rest of the quarter to make the score 20-9. Within the run, Palomo Vicente scored her 1,000th career point and graduate Bella Stuart made a buzzer-beater three. 
• The Great Danes got off to a strong start in the second with an 8-3 run in the first three minutes.
• UAlbany maintained control as the half came to a close led by 10 points from Stewart in the final four minutes and held a 22-point advantage heading into the third.
• The Great Danes continued to extend the lead after halftime when Martina Borrellas scored six during a 10-4 run in the first half of the third.
• Both teams traded points in the back half of the quarter and UAlbany carried a 57-33 lead into the fourth.
• Defense highlighted the fourth quarter with UAlbany narrowly outscoring the Saints in the final period.
• UAlbany won back the Albany Cup trophy with the 67-42 victory.

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will head on the road to face St. Bonaventure on Saturday (Nov. 22).
 
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