SCORE: UAlbany 77, Mount St. Mary's 57
LOCATION: Emmitsburg, Md. - Knott Arena
RECORDS: UAlbany 3-0, 0-0 America East | Mount St. Mary's 0-3, 0-0 Metro
SHORT STORY: Four Great Danes scored in the double-digits as the Great Danes tallied their first 20-point win of the season, Sunday afternoon.
KEY STATS
- Freshman Alexia Bujold led the team 17 points and 11 rebounds for her first career double-double.
- Senior Lara Langermann also totaled 17 points, including five three-pointers.
- Sophomore Emma Zuccon (13) and junior Daria Shishkina (11) made it four Great Danes with double-digit point totals.
- Senior Madison Roman followed Bujold with 10 rebounds while leading the team with five assists and three steals.
- As a team, the Great Danes shot 46.4% from the field, including 45.8% from three, while holding Mount St. Mary's to a 25.4% accuracy from the field with a 29.7% accuracy from three.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The game opened with back-and-forth action but the Mountaineers earned an 8-5 lead halfway through the first.
- UAlbany scored 10 consecutive points to take a 15-8 lead while holding Mount St. Mary's scoreless for nearly four minutes.
- A three-pointer from Noa López Tallón with five seconds on the clock closed out the quarter with a UAlbany advantage, 18-11.
- What looked to be a defensive second quarter, MSM outscored UAlbany, 6-5, in over six minutes of second-quarter action.
- Two three-pointers in 30 seconds fueled what proved to be a 100-second, 10-3 scoring run to give the Great Danes a double-digit lead.
- Despite a short 90-second, 5-1 run by the Mountaineers to end the first half, Emma Zuccon's 11 points in just over three minutes of action helped UAlbany to a 35-25 lead at halftime.
- The Great Danes' prominence continued into the third quarter as they outscored MSM, 11-3, in the first 2:58, including three three-pointers from Lara Langermann.
- UAlbany continued to grow its lead throughout the quarter until a layup from Alexia Bujold made it a 52-33 game with 3:55 remaining in the third.
- With the third coming to a close, a seven-point scoring run ended with a 60-38 lead for the Great Danes.
- Having started the fourth quarter with a 20-point advantage, UAlbany quickly extended to a 25-point lead in just over two minutes of action.
- The Mountaineers started to come back but a late-quarter 8-3 run from the Great Danes made it 77-51 with 1:25 remaining.
- Mount St. Mary's ended the game with two last-minute field goals and a free throw but it was not enough as UAlbany took the 20-point victory, 77-57.
NEXT: The Great Danes continue on the road with Ole Miss (Nov. 11) and Rutgers (Nov. 16) on the horizon.
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