SCORE: UAlbany 74, UMass Lowell 62
 
LOCATION: Broadview Center - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 11-4, 1-1 America East | UMass Lowell 6-9, 0-2 America East
 
SHORT STORY: Led by a 19-point performance by Delanie Hill, five Great Danes scored in the double-digits in a victory over UMass Lowell, Saturday afternoon.
 
KEY STATS

• Sophomore Delanie Hill led five total Great Danes with double-digit point totals. Graduate student Júlia Palomo Vicente (13), junior Lara Langermann (13), sophomore Martina Borrellas (12), and freshman Amaya Stewart (12) followed Hill (19).
• Borrellas tabbed a team-high seven rebounds with a near-even divide of three offensive and four defensive.
• Senior Gabriela Falcão and Hill assisted on five field goals. Falcão's fifth, in the fourth quarter, was her 100th career assist.
• As a team, the Great Danes shot 13-22 (59.1%) from deep with over a 64% accuracy and 18 assists.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• In the first three minutes of action, both teams scored only three-point field goals - two each.
• As scoring went back and forth, the Great Danes earned a small lead with a three-point from Delanie Hill at 4:07.
• UAlbany gained a seven-point lead, 20-13, with back-to-back shots from Lara Langermann and Amaya Stewart. 
• UML closed the lead with a couple of free throws but the Great Danes finished the first quarter with a five-point advantage.
• With nine points in two early second-quarter minutes, the River Hawks took the lead, 24-22, at 7:02.
• Earning and making five free throws, UMass Lowell extended their lead to five with about half of the quarter remaining.
• A last-second layup from Amaya Stewart was called off and the River Hawks entered halftime with a 35-31 advantage.
• Coming out of the break, the Great Danes allowed just two field goals, while scoring 15 points, in the first half of the third quarter.
• Although scoring returned to its back-and-forth nature of the first, UAlbany entered the final quarter with a 56-48 lead.
• Just like the third quarter, the Great Dane defense came out strong and allowed just two field goals in nearly seven minutes of action. 
• After a quarter-opening field goal from Júlia Palomo Vicente, with Gabriela Falcão earning her 100th career assist, UAlbany held a 10-point lead - the first double-digit advantage of the contest.
• The Great Danes' lead continued to build despite UMass Lowell's attempts to come back and they won the game, 74-62.

 
NEXT: After taking Thursday (January 8) off, the Great Danes will head to face Bryant on Saturday (January 10).
 
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