ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (Feb. 12, 2020) – On one end of the Quealy Gymnasium court on Wednesday night (Feb. 12), the basketball could not miss the bottom of the net in the third quarter. On the other side, the rims were ice cold and not inviting many made baskets.
Unfortunately for the Queens College women's basketball team, the latter and much colder rim was their target in the third quarter.
The Knights succumbed to a 28-4 run in the third quarter of play as Queens watched a four-point deficit at halftime become an insurmountable disadvantage as Molloy cruised to a 68-45 victory in an East Coast Conference women's basketball match-up in Rockville Centre.
The Knights fall to 7-15 on the season with the loss and now hold a 4-8 record in East Coast Conference play. Molloy, meanwhile, boasts a 16-8 overall record with an 8-4 mark in league play.
Raiana Brown---
who was named a Division II-III Metropolitan Basketball Writers' Association Honorable Mention on Tuesday (Feb. 11)---posted her eighth double-double of the season with 22 points and 15 rebounds to go along with four blocks on the defensive end. Brown was 7-for-17 from the field and hit 8-of-11 from the free-throw line in the effort while
Brianne Moxley added 11 points and seven rebounds on the night.
Robyn Francis had 19 points to lead Molloy including 11 points in the third quarter; the LIU Post transfer added five steals, four assists and three rebounds in the win. Gabriella Aspuru scored 15 points with Kadijah Dickson collecting ten points, six assists, five rebounds and five steals for the host Lions.
Queens trailed 19-13 at the end of the first period despite shooting 60% (6-10) from the floor; the Knights committed eight turnovers in the opening ten minutes of play and only trailed by a 29-25 margin at halftime with Brown scoring nine points and pulling down eight rebounds. The rookie center scored the first points of the third quarter on a lay-up to bring Queens within a possession, but Francis would score the Lions' first nine points as the hosts ran off a 28-point frame that became a 45-11 run over a three-quarter span. Molloy also shut out Queens in a 21-0 effort that only ended on a jumper by
Chidinma Ndukauba with eight minutes remaining in regulation.
The Knights shot just 10-for-36 (28%) in the final three quarters and finished the contest with 25 turnovers that led to 30 Molloy points on the night.
Queens remains the No. 6 seed in the ECC standings as District of Columbia lost to New York Tech on Wednesday (Feb. 12) as well. The Knights will travel to Old Westbury to face the Bears on Saturday (Feb. 15) with tip-off set for 1 p.m. at Recreation Hall.
