WASHINGTON - The American University women's basketball team (6-7, 2-1 PL) continued to show its dominance at home with a decisive 73-57 win over Army West Point (4-10, 0-3 PL) on Wednesday.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Senior Kaitlyn Marenyi paced the team with a season-high 19 points, shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the line alongside her 6-for-11 from the field and 2-for-4 from outside. She just missed out on her first career double-double with a team-high nine rebounds and gave up only one turnover in her 29 minutes of play.
• All 11 Eagles that played added points to the final score sheet, including a season-high 33 off the bench behind eight-point efforts from sophomores Emily Fisher, Taylor Brown, and Maddie Doring.
• Junior Indeya Sanders pitched in a team-high seven assists and came away with a pair of steals.
• AU closed shooting 45.9 percent from the field (28-61), 29.2 percent from three (7-24), and 83.3 percent from the charity stripe (10-12).
• The Black Knights, who came off a 93-point performance at Colgate on Sunday, were held to only 57 with 35.9 percent from the floor (23-64), 31.8 percent from three (7-22), and 36.4 percent (4-11) from the line.
• Army put two players in double-figures with Hope Brown leading with 19 points followed by 11 from Lindsey Scamman. Scamman added a game-high 10 boards for the double-double. 
• Morgann Yancey added the only points off the bench for Army with six.
• American led Army in points off turnovers, 15-12 and points in the paint, 38-28. The Black Knights outworked AU on the boards, though, 41-35, and put up 12 second chance points to American's three.
• Army opened with its only lead of the game, picking up an early 4-0 advantage before senior Morgan Bartner put AU on the board.
• Back-to-back three's from Marenyi and sophomore Laura Graytok continued the Eagles' run that ended at 18-4 before Brown got Army back on the board with 1:23 left in the stanza.
• By the end of the first quarter, AU picked up a 21-9 lead behind seven points from Marenyi.
• The Eagles continued to build on that lead in the second quarter as a 5-0 solo run from Marenyi brought the score up to 26-9. Army cut the lead back down to 12 briefly after a seven-point run from Alisa Fallon, but a quick pair of baskets from Fisher in response rebuilt a 16-point cushion.
• Late Army free throws ended the first half with a 13-point margin at 36-23.
• The two teams traded baskets throughout the first few minutes of the third quarter, but a fast break layup from Sanders after a steal sent the Eagles on a 6-2 run to regain an 18-point advantage. 
• A three from Yancey cut the lead back down to 13 with 1:02 left in the stanza, but Doring responded with a trey of her own to send the teams into the final break at 55-39.
• AU picked up its largest lead of the game midway through the fourth quarter after a jumper from freshman Karla Vres off the bench brought the score to 69-46.
• Freshman Thuraya Abdul Hamid also picked up a quick pair of points off the bench as she put in her first minutes as an Eagle with just under 2:00 left in the game.
• The Black Knights kept pace with AU in the final 10 minutes, 18-18, to close the game at 73-57.

UP NEXT...
American will be back in Bender on Jan. 11 to face Lehigh for AU's annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event.

For the latest on American University Women's Basketball, stay tuned to AUEagles.com and follow the team on Twitter (@AU_WBasketball) and Instagram (@auwbasketball).






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