Brooklyn 65, Delaware Valley 52

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BROOKLYN (NY) – Brooklyn College placed four players in double-digit scoring to down visiting Delaware Valley University, 65-52, in a non-conference game on Monday night.

 

The Bulldogs remained perfect on the season at 5-0 while the Aggies fell to 1-4.

 

Brooklyn was hot right from the tip and hit 4-of-5 from beyond the arc in the first seven minutes of the game to get out to a 16-6 lead. Taylor George and Alexandra Moogan each connected twice. Morgan Mitchell had a nice steal and score in the first quarter for the Aggies, but the squad trailed 18-8 going into the second.

 

George opened the second stanza with her third trey of the game to spark an 8-2 Brooklyn run that ballooned its lead to 16 at 26-10 with 5:34 remaining before the half.

 

Sarah Wills hit a 3-pointer for DelVal to reduce the lead to 13, but the Bulldogs came back with eight of the next 10 points to grow their lead to 19. They eventually took a 38-20 lead into the locker room.

 

The Aggies still trailed by 19 with seven minutes to go in the third before Monika Smallwood converted an and-1 play and then hit another layup in the paint. Brooklyn scored a layup before Lauren Moretti hit from beyond the arc to make it 44-31 with just over three minutes to play in the third stanza.

 

Ashley Smink hit a trey just before the buzzer sounded on the third quarter, but the Bulldogs held a 13-point lead going into the fourth. They went on to lead by as many as 17 in the fourth quarter, en route to a 65-52 home victory.

 

Smallwood shot 5-for-7 from the field to lead DelVal with 13 points along with a team-best eight rebounds. Smink finished with 10 points, six rebounds and four assists and Olivia Gorman and Danielle Skedzielewski each added seven points and four boards.

 

Moogan led Brooklyn with 15 points while Chanel Jemmott and Karen Mak added 12 points apiece with nine and seven boards respectively. George was the other Bulldog in double-figures with 11 points.

 

The Aggies will return home to take on Goucher College at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29.