Washington, D.C. - The Queens College women's basketball team split its regular-season meetings with the University of the District of Columbia and Thursday's East Coast Conference championship semifinal would determine the season series.  At the end of the game, it was UDC who triumphed, 77-68, but Madison Rowland scored a game-high 33 points in the contest.

The first four minutes saw the Knights jump out to a 9-4 lead as they got two points apiece from MacKenzie Rowland and Elisabeth Gully and five points from Kristen Korzevinski.  They pushed the led over the next four minutes and built a 14-point cushion, 21-7, with 12:05 left.  Madison Rowland scored ten points in that stretch.  The lead got as high as 16 on another Rowland layup at the ten-minute mark, but the Firebirds fought back.  A Telisha Turner three-pointer at 8:25 had UDC within five points again. By the 1:36 mark the 16 point lead was all but gone as Brent Dennika jumper made the score 36-35 for Queens.  Finally, with 0:04 left in the half, Turner scored again to put the Firebirds ahead.

The first two-and-half minutes saw UDC push the lead to seven points, but Queens fought to get back into it, eventually pulling within three points on a Kasheema Besley bucket at 10:23.  At 8:07, Melissa Gardner gave QC the lead once again, scoring on a put back from a Korzevinski miss.  The Knights never had the lead again as UDC won 77-68.

Rowland was the only Queens' player in double-figures for scoring.  She also had seven steals.  Korzevinski finished with nine, but fouled out late in the second half.

Despite the loss, Coach Naumovski's team has seen a steady increase during her time in Flushing.  After winning just one game in her first season, the team had 11victories and advanced to the ECC quarterfinal a year ago.  This year, the team won 20 games, defeated a pair of Northeast 10 opponents, earned a three-seed for the ECC Championship and advanced to the semifinal.  The sky is the limit for next year's team.