ALBANY, N.Y. - Sophomores Nicole Caggiano (Holtsville, N.Y.) and Caitlin Hopkins (Holtsville, N.Y.) netted 13 points apiece Saturday afternoon for the Queens College women's basketball team, which dropped an 81-61 decision to Concordia College in the second and final day of action at the Saint Rose Tip-Off Tournament.

The Knights (0-2) scored the first five points of the contest off a Hopkins (seven rebounds) lay-in and a Caggiano 3-point field goal, and led by a 10-6 count when junior Samantha Gillman (Bronx, N.Y.; eight pts., eight reb.) converted in the low post with 16:06 left in the first half of play. Concordia (1-1) later used a nine-point spread to take a 21-14 edge, before QC battled back with a 9-2 run of their own (seven points by Hopkins - including a conventional 3-point play) to knot the score at 23-all with nine minutes to go. The teams stayed close the rest of the half, including a 35-all deadlock when Joanna Verouhis (So., Flushing, N.Y.) canned a pair of free throws with 1:52 left before the Clippers entered the halftime break with a 37-35 edge.

Concordia scored the first six points of the second half, before the Knights responded with a conventional 3-point play by Caggiano and a lay-in by sophomore Catherine Pastor (Hewlett, N.Y.; 11 pts.) with 16:24 to go to pull within a 43-40 count. The Clippers' advantage stayed in single digits until the 9:38 mark, when they took control with a 17-4 run of their own.

Head coach Bet Naumovski's Knights are back in action on the road Wednesday night (Nov. 16), when they travel to Rutherford, N.J., for a 7 p.m. tip-off at Felician College.