Madison, NJ – Alyssa Cuomo (Odessa, DE/Hodgson Vo-tech) scored a career-high 24 points to carry Keystone College to a 77-68 victory over Drew University in non-conference women's basketball action on Saturday afternoon at Drew's Baldwin Gym.  Chantel Blake (Piscataway, NJ/Piscataway) scored 19 points while Jazmyn Robinson (Hyattsville, MD/Northwestern) netted 17 points as the Giants improve to 7-2 on the season with a win after being idle since December 16^th. 
 
Drew (7-4) built a 15-7 lead over the first 6:57 of Saturday's game before the Giants used a 10-2 run to level the game at 17-17 after Blake hit the backend of a pair of free throws with 7:56 left on the clock.  The Rangers countered with an 8-0 run and would continue to hold the lead for the rest of the half, though the Giants were able to narrow their deficit to 33-30 at the break after Ashley Evans (Wooster, OH/Wooster) connected on a three-pointer with just two seconds remaining in the stanza. 
 
Logan Cavanaugh and Erin Howard scored eight points apiece to lead Drew in the opening 20 minutes of play as the hosts shot 35.3 percent from the field, 18.2 percent from beyond the arc, and 63.6 percent from the free throw line. 
 
Cuomo netted 10 first half points and added five rebounds while Evans added nine points in the period for Keystone, who connected on 42.9 percent of their field goal chances in the half including a 4-10 effort from beyond the arc in the period.
 
Cuomo connected from long range just nine seconds into the second half to tie the game and keyed an 8-0 run to open the half that saw Keystone build a 38-33 lead 1:50 into the period.  Drew fought back to take a brief lead at the 16:21 mark and the game would turn into a seesaw affair over the next 10 minutes as the score was tied four more times and the lead changed hands three times in that span.  Deadlocked at 50-50 with 8:01 to play, Robinson scored on a lay-in to put Keystone back on top before Blake hit a pair of free throws to give the Giants a four-point lead.
 
The Rangers battled back again though and tied the game at 54-54 with 6:18 remaining, but Cuomo gave Keystone the lead for good with back-to-back three pointers that started a 9-0 burst by the Giants that gave the visitors a 63-54 advantage with 5:24 showing on the clock.  Drew whittled their deficit to six points at the 2:35 mark, but Jerica Rode (Lords Valley, PA/Wallenpaupack) stopped the host's run with a trey of her own before Cuomo added an exclamation point to her career-game with her sixth three-pointer of the game to give the Giants a 72-60 lead with 1:32 to play and the Rangers would come no closer than seven points the rest of the way.
 
Cuomo's career-best 24 points came on 8-13 shooting from the field including a 6-9 night from downtown.  The junior, who tied for the fifth most three-pointers in a game in school history, also led Keystone with nine rebounds.  Blake added 19 points and seven rebounds while Robinson contributed 17 points, six boards, six assists, and seven steals. 
 
For the game, the Giants connected on 43.9 percent of their field goal attempts including a hot, 10-18 game from beyond the arc while going 17-30 from the line.
 
Howard paced Drew's offense with 18 points while Courtney Trzasko added 16 points.  Breana Wilson added 14 points and nine rebounds for the Rangers while Cavanaugh finished with 10 points.  Courtney Stephens finished with a game-high 12 rebounds for Drew, who hit on 38.1 percent of their shots from the floor for the day, 35.3 percent from three-point land, and 66.7 percent of their free throw shots.  
 
Keystone will be right back in action on Sunday afternoon when they travel to Phoenixville, PA to take on Valley Forge Christian College in a non-conference game slated to begin at 3:00 p.m.