HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Trinity College women's basketball team led from start to finish but needed to withstand a late Eastern Connecticut State University push to hold off the Warriors, 59-54, in a non-conference game Wednesday evening at Ray Ooosing Gymnasum that featured senior All-America Anna Barry's (Andover) 1,000th career point.

Needing ten points to reach the 1,000-point milestone, Barry scored nine in the first half on the strength of 4-of-6 shooting and a free throw, pulling to within one point on an inside bucket in the final seconds of the  half that cut a 12-point Trinity (2-0) lead to four at the break. Eastern again trailed by double figures (ten points) in the third quarter, with Barry sinking a short jumper on an assist from senior Julie Keckler (Trumbull) to reach, then exceed, the 1000-point plateau with under three minutes left in the third quarter that made it a two-point game, 31-29.

Barry led Eastern with 17 points, eight rebounds and three steals that gave her 1,007 career points in 82 career games (12.3 ppg.), with senior Danielle O'Brien (Rockland, MA) totalling nine on three three-pointers. Six-foot-two inch junior center Reilly Campbell led all players for Trinity with 25 points (11-of-15 FG/3-of-3 FT) and 15 rebounds, with senior guard Bria Fuller adding 12 points.

Barry becomes the 19th player in Eastern history to record as many as 1,000 collegiate points, the 14th under 29th-year head coach Denise Bierly. Barry's former teammate Mya Villard (2016-20) was the last to reach the 1,000-point milestone and finished second all-time behind four-time All-America Allison Coleman with 1,670 points.

On Tuesday, Barry was named AVCA All-America honorable mention in volleyball for the second straight season and concluded her career with over 1,000 kills (1,364/third all-time) and ranked third all-time in attack percentage (.383), sixth in points (1,518) and tied for tenth in block assists (158). She was a three-time LEC Offensive Player-of-the-Year in that sport.

In addition to approaching her 1000th point, Barry entered the basketball season ranked first all-time in blocked shots (182) and blocks per game (2.3) and third in field goal percentage (54.6).

Barry helped the Warriors to consecutive Little East Conference tournament championships as a first-year member of the program in 2018/19 and as a sophomore in 2019/20, earning tournament MVP honors in that second year and the first of two LEC Offensive and Defensive Player-of-the-Year Awards. After the team took the 2020-21 year off due to Covid, Barry returned to average career-highs in scoring average (15.8) and rebounding average (9.7), totaling 364 points on the season to move to within 22 points of 1,000. In Saturday's season-opening loss to Babson College, she came off the bench to net 12 points.

Eastern had won the first ten games in the series with Trinity but has lost five of the last eight, including 55-48 a year ago at Geissler Gym. Eastern shot 35.2 percent from the floor (2-of-17 from "three") in that game and was held to its second-lowest scoring total of the year. Current senior Bria Fuller led the Bantams with 22 points as her team's only double-digit scorers. She was 12-of-14 from the foul line, converting and attempting more than Eastern as a team.

Eastern meets two first-time opponents when it returns to action this weekend at the Williams College Morin Memorial Tournament against Stevenson University (Saturday/7 p.m.) from Owings Mills, MD, and Albright College (Sunday/1 p.m.) from Reading, PA, two teams from the Middle Athletic Conference (MAC) who met in the quarterfinals of their conference tournament last year. Stevenson finished last year with an 11-13 record, Albright at 13-11.