HOBOKEN, N.J. (December 30, 2010) – Junior Victoria Webber (Silver Spring, Md.) poured in a game-high 18 points on 7-for-11 shooting as the Stevens Institute of Technology women's basketball team earned its fourth-consecutive victory with a 65-45 win over visiting Brooklyn College at Canavan Arena in Hoboken, N.J. With the win the Ducks moved to 8-1 overall on the year, while the Bulldogs fell to 6-4 on the season.

Junior Isaura Guzman (Union City, N.J.) added 13 points in the win, going 5-for-9 from the field, while freshman Lisa Tessitore (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.) and junior forward Jillian Barrett (Philadelphia, Pa.) added six points apiece. Freshmen Jen Thompson (Linwood, N.J.) and Avis Benjamin (Queens, N.Y.) combined for 12 points and four rebounds, while junior Avis Benjamin (Queens, N.Y.) and freshman Molly Spadaro (Sewell, N.J.) added four points each.
Senior guard Ariel Smith (Newburgh, N.Y.) led the Bulldogs with 18 points and five rebounds, while fellow senior Amber Gordon (Brooklyn, N.Y.) added 10 points in the loss.

Webber opened up scoring with five-straight points, connecting on a triple and a jumper before a pair of Smith free-throws trimmed the margin to three. Spadaro buried another Stevens' triple at 17:32 to up the margin to six at 8-2, but a Smith trey coupled with a Gordon bucket sliced the Ducks' lead to one.

Trailing by two after a Spadaro free-throw, Smith rattled off four-straight on back-to-back layups to give Brooklyn its first lead of the evening. Garcia quickly knotted the game at 11 less than a minute later before a Barrett basket helped Stevens regain the lead. Hoping to keep pace, Smith connected on another jumper, but Barrett put the Ducks right back on top with a layup at 11:34.

Up four with less than 10 to play in the first half, Benjamin converted a three-point play the old fashioned way before a Guzman triple upped the lead to 23-13. The Union City, N.J. native then found a cutting Benjamin on the Ducks' next possession to give Stevens a 12-point cushion before a Tiayana Logan (Brooklyn, N.Y.) free-throw and Smith layup momentarily slowed the Ducks' run.

Ahead by 9, Thompson drove baseline, laying the ball in to put Stevens up 27-16 before Spadaro – who tracked down her own rebound on the Ducks' next possession – kicked it out to a wide-open Webber for another Ducks' three. Again crashing the offensive glass, senior Victoria O'Connor (Westwood, N.J.) gave Stevens another opportunity off a missed jumper, finding Guzman behind the arc, who buried the triple to give the Ducks a 17-point edge.

Brooklyn trimmed the deficit to 14 over the next minute of action, but four-consecutive Stevens points on a Tessitore layup and a Guzman jumper put the Ducks back up 18. Still down 18 with fewer than 30 seconds to play in the frame, Gordon knifed into the lane for two to cut the Stevens lead to 16 heading into the locker room.

The Ducks netted the first five points of the second on a Barrett layup and a Webber trey before junior Ryan Reeder (Bronx, N.Y.) put Brooklyn on the board with a three. Stevens responded with a 15-5 run over the next 10 minutes of action going up 28 with just under nine minutes remaining.

Webber and Tessitore netted back-to-back buckets to kick-start the run before Webber hit a three to put the Ducks up 53-28. Bulldogs' junior Alexandra Sbordone (New York, N.Y.) answered with a three of her own to cut into the Stevens lead, but a Benjamin layup followed by four-straight Guzman points staked the Ducks to a 59-31 advantage.

Brooklyn would pull within 19 on an Elisha Raiford (Long Island City, N.Y.) free-throw at 3:21 but the Ducks' defense, which held the Bulldogs to a 30.4 shooting percentage (17-for-56) on the night, kept Brooklyn at bay, earning a 65-45 win.

Stevens returns to action on Monday, January 3 at Hunter College