Posted: Jun 20, 2017

Top Five Flashback: Women's Basketball #4

NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina University athletics resumes its summer series with a daily flashback to the top five moments of 2016-17 for each of its 19 varsity sports. Beginning with Memorial Day (Monday, May 29, 2017) and finishing with the final day of August, 95 moments (19 x 5) will be shared to relive the most exciting happenings of the most recent Seahawk season.

The Salve Regina University women's basketball team played the role of heartbreakers on Valentine's Day as they defeated Endicott College, 61-59, in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) bout inside MacDonald Gymnasium. It was a battle of the birds down to the wire as junior guard Hannah Kiernan's (Wenham, Mass.) career-high/game-high 19 points were not enough to boost the Gulls.

Despite scoring 23 points off 18 of Salve Regina's turnovers in the game, the Gulls let a 12-point lead (30-18) with 1:52 on the clock before the half turn into a 32-24 edge at the break and watched as it slipped away heading into the fourth quarter.

This occurred in part because with an aggressive style of play, the Gulls committed roughly a quarter of their 22 fouls on the offensive side of the ball and got in foul trouble early. Mary Eden (South Kingstown, R.I.) dished out a team-high five helpers to go with a game-best nine rebounds, two steals, and eight points. The junior captain also drew half a dozen offensive charges.

Salve Regina University
Salve Regina athletics sponsors 19 NCAA Division III varsity sports for men and women. The Seahawks compete in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC - baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, football, men's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, women's track and field, women's volleyball), New England Hockey Conference (NEHC - women's ice hockey), New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA - sailing). Beginning in 2017-18, Salve Regina will also sponsor equestrian as a varsity sport, and adds junior varsity programs for baseball and men's lacrosse.