JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Freshman Jennah DeGout (Bronx, N.Y.) tallied her first double-double of the season with 21 points and 12 rebounds, but it wasn't enough as the Queens College women's basketball team fell to Nyack College Warriors, 87-77 on Thursday afternoon in John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center. 
 
How it Happened 

Queens jumped ahead 6-3 behind freshman Janay Legagneur (Valley Stream, N.Y.) and junior Khadija Demry (Brooklyn, N.Y.) but the Warriors would go on a 7-2 run and take a 15-8 lead with 4:54 left in the first quarter. 
 
Led by freshman Chelsea Reeves (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and sophomore Aalia Carlson (Montclair, N.J.), the Knights would respond with a 9-0 run and reclaim a 17-15 lead. But the Warriors would close the first half on back-to-back threes to take a 21-17 lead into the second quarter. 
 
Demry would tie the game 21-21 with back-to-back jumpers. The second quarter would see five lead changes and two ties as both teams continued to answer each other. But the Knights would go into halftime trailing 37-35 following a Warriors second-chance bucket just before the buzzer. 
 
Nyack would extend their lead to double digits in the early going but Queens would attempt their comeback trailing 48-38. Senior Nora Gabel (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.) would knock down back-to-back shots from beyond the arc to cut the deficit down to 48-44. 
 
The four-point deficit would be the closet the Knights would get within as the Warriors shot 55.6% in the second half to take an 87-77 victory. 
 
By the Numbers
 
Four players scored in double figures led by DeGout's first double-double of the season with 21 points (8-of-9 FG) and 12 rebounds, while Reeves tallied a near triple-double with 12 points (4-of-7 FG), 11 rebounds, and career-high seven assists. Carlson tallied 13 points (6-of-16 FG) and Gabel notched 11 points (4-of-12 FG).
 
Queens shot 43.1 percent (31-of-72) from the field and 35.7 percent (5-of-14) from three. While Nyack shot 50.9 percent (29-of-57) from the field and 44.0 percent (11-of-25) from beyond the arc. The Knights won the rebound battle with a 52-27 margin and 27-8 in second-chance points. 

UP NEXT: Queens will open the new year in Flushing as they welcome the College of Staten Island (0-3 ECC) conference play. Tip-off set for 6:00 p.m.
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