WEST POINT, N.Y. – A roughly even first period in Chrisl Arena quickly transformed into the American University women's basketball team falling to Army, 84-60, on the road despite a fourth quarter surge in scoring from AU. The Eagles scored half (30) of their total points in the final frame alone.
 
Inside the Box Score

• Freshman forward Cecilia Kay led in scoring on the afternoon with 11 points. She also led all players on the hardwood in rebounding with eight.
• Classmate Molly Driscoll tallied eight points on 4-for-4 shooting and another first year, Madisyn Moore-Nicholson, tallied eight points. All 11 available players checked in and scored in the game for AU.
• Four Army players scored in double digits, Reese Ericson (14), Trinity Hardy (12), Camryn Tade (11), and Fiona Hastick (11). The quartet combined for 12 of AWP's 15 three pointers.
• Army shot 47 percent from three, making 15 overall, and shot 48 percent from the floor as a team. American went 44 overall and 36 from three, making just five long-range baskets, including a jumper from Lexi Salazar as the final buzzer sounded.

How it Happened

• Army won the tip and within ten seconds Trinity Hardy scored the first basket of the contest, answered swiftly on the other end by a basket from Kay to put both teams on the board.
• At the media timeout, with 3:45 to play in the first quarter, the Eagles and Black Knights were knotted up, 7-all.
• Through the opening 10 minutes, a single basket, a three pointer, separated the two teams, with Army leading 12-9. AU shooting 31 percent to Army's 36 percent from the floor overall with four and five made field goals, respectively.
• The home squad opened the second quarter on an 8-2 run, six points coming from two three point jumpers by Camryn Tade. The run led to a 20-11 lead and forced American to burn a timeout with 6:41 to play until the half.
• After that, neither team would score for the next two and a half minutes before the Black Knights made a jumper at 4:09. Army continually switched its defense back and forth between man-to-man and zone, throwing off the offensive rhythm of AU.
• In the second, Army improved to shoot 53 percent from the field, dropping four threes in the quarter, up 34-17 over the Eagles, doubling the visitor's score, at the break. Hardy and Tade had a combined 18 points for Army. American only scored in single digits in each of the first two quarters, nine in the first and eight in the second.
•  The teams were considerably even in rebounds, AU with 17 and AWP with 16, but American had eight turnovers to Army's three, and Army led in steals, 6-1. American committed no personal fouls in the opening half, and neither team shot any free throws.
• The third quarter started how the second ended with an Army basket. Bailey Garbee scored American's first points of the third, and first points from the free throw line when she made both free throws at the 8:29 in the third.
• Ericson went on a torrent, scoring three times in a row for AWP, picking up eight points in two minutes. The Black Knights went 8-10 from deep in the third period and held a 66-30 lead with ten minutes left to play.
• In the first half of the final frame, American outscored the home team 14-9. It was the most points the team had amassed in a single quarter all afternoon.
• American outscored AWP 30-18 in the final period to make a late surge, scoring half of its points in the final quarter alone, led by Driscoll and Moore-Nicholson, but it wouldn't be enough to overcome the deficit. Army would claim the victory, 84-60, over American.

On the Horizon
The Eagles return to Washington and have a bye-week to reset their strength ahead of a home game against Lehigh on Saturday, February 8. Tip off for that game is set for 2 p.m. and will be American's Alumni Day and a celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, with a postgame clinic to follow the contest.
 
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