Women's Basketball Falls to Monmouth

FAIRFIELD, CONN (December 8, 2016)—The Sacred Heart women's basketball team dropped Thursday's night's contest 63-54 to the Monmouth University Hawks in the William H. Pitt Center. With the loss, SHU falls to 2-6 on the season.

Hannah Kimmel (Harpursville, N.Y.) led the way for the Pioneers with her second 20-point game of the season shooting .571 (8-14) from the floor and .444 (4-9) from beyond the arc.

SHU returns home Monday night to host Siena at 7:00 p.m. in the final non-conference home game of the season.

Noteworthy:

Shelby Hickey (Littleton, Colo.) tallied a season high 11 points
Kiana Ye (Williamstown, N.J.) posted a career high seven points landing two triples and a free throw
Kimmel posted her second 20-point game of the season shooting .571 (8-14) from the floor and .444 (4-9) from downtown

How It Happened:

First Quarter:

The Hawks got out to an early lead taking the first six points of the game through four and a half minutes before Hickey drained a three to put the Pioneers on the board
Monmouth answered with a jumper, but Kimmel answered with a triple to bring SHU within two points, 8-6
The Pioneers were held to just three field goals in the first period and trailed 17-8 by the buzzer

Second Quarter:

The teams exchanged buckets through the first half of the second period with Monmouth maintaining its lead
With 4:50 on the clock, the Hawks began an eight-point spurt that lead to SHU Head Coach Jessica Mannetti using a timeout
The Hawks scored once more before a pair of free throws by Kelcey Castro (Fair Lawn, N.J.) sparked a eight-point streak for the Pioneers that cut Monmouth's lead back to 10, 30-20
Monmouth hit the last shot before the horn sending SHU into halftime down 33-20

Third Quarter:

The teams traded brief runs with the Pioneers outscoring Monmouth 6-3 through the first three minutes before the Hawks took over with a 14-4 streak expanding their lead to 20 points, 50-30
SHU brought Monmouth's lead down to 16 points, 51-37, by the end of the period

Fourth Quarter:

Back-to-back triples from Kimmel and Ye to start the fourth quarter set Sacred Heart off on a 8-3 streak that brought the Hawks' lead to 11 points, 56-45, with just over seven minutes left to play
Monmouth's Tyese Purvis attempted to stop the threatening Pioneers with a pair from the charity stripe, but Kimmel drained her third triple of the night to put SHU back on track
Her fourth trey of the night minimized Monmouth's lead to single digits, 58-51, at the 4:20 mark, but the Hawks answered with a three-pointer of their own to push the gap back to 10 points
Monmouth halted the thriving SHU offense with seven straight points in the final minutes putting the game out of reach for the Pioneers

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Kelcey Castro

Shelby Hickey

Hannah Kimmel

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