The Queens College Women's basketball team could not hold off a furious Molloy Lions offense in the second half en route to a 69-62 loss. For the second time this year the Knights dropped a game to Molloy to fall to 5-11 (4-5 ECC), while the Lions improve to 4-12 (4-5 ECC).
Queens used an early 13-3 run sparked by Amanda Bartlett who accounted for eight of the thirteen and Christine Harnishfeger to seemingly take control of the first half. Despite only shooting 28 % from the floor in the first half, the Knights were able to take a five point lead into the locker room up 32-27.
The second half proved to be a different story. Queens wound up getting outscored in the half 42-30. Responsible for Molloy's big second half was freshman forward Jessica Denicola who scored 16 of her team high 20 points in the second stanza. The Knights found themselves up 53-52 with 5 minutes left when the Lions went on a 15-3 un answered run, which was plagued by crucial Knights turn over's and a Technical foul by the Knights' Jessica Fairweather .
Despite dropping the heart breaker to Molloy junior guard Amanda Bartlett had a fantastic game registering a double-double while shooting 8-18 from the floor, good enough for 23 points. Bartlett also added a game and season high 11 rebounds in the loss. The Knights return to action this Wednesday Jan. 19th when they travel to Dobbs Ferry to take on the Mercy College Mavericks. All the action can be found on www.mercy.edu.
