UNCW is completing the weekend cleaning against Stony Brook – Uncwsports.com

Wilmington, North Carolina – UNCW Women Basketball won a stubborn victory against Stony Brook, 65-57, in the PLAY4Kay game in TRASK Coliseum on Sunday for its third straight victory. UNCW coincided with its longest winning series of conference after the 2018-19 season and won the most wins in its league in the season after the 2019-20 campaign.

UNCW improved to 12-10 during the season and 6-3 in the CAA, while Stony Brook, the regular champion of the season 2023-24, dropped to 10-11 and 5-5 in the conference. Seahawks also recorded their first victory in the conference against Stony Brook and defeated Seawolves for the first time since 2009, when Stony Brook was a member of American East.

Seahawks dominated Stony Brook in points in Paint 38-18 and 17-3 in points of the bench and held Seawolves to shoot a combined 9-from-35 of the field in the second and third quarter.

Ali Zelaia He recorded his fourth direct double double and seventh of the season. She set a new career with 26 points, firing 11 to 23 from the floor while grabbing 14 rebounds and adding three blocks. Zelaia tore her 10th bounce in the third quarter to record the 400th double double in the history of the program (52 ​​seasons).

Taylor Henderson He collected his second double double for the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds, shooting 5-from-11 from the pitch.

Seahawks started slowly and lagged 13-8 at the end of the first quarter, shooting only 4 out of 16 of the pitch after the first 10 minutes. UNCW quickly transferred the script and exceeded Brooke 21-9 in the second quarter, emphasized by 10-0 to start a quarter. Seahawks shot 9 out of 13 in the second quarter, making eight of its last 10 field goals to lead 29-22 leads in the half-time break.

Zelaia marked her seventh straight game in double figures with 13 -point half -time, including nine in the second quarter to lead all the goal scorers in Antrakt. UNCW kept Seawolves shoot 10 to 36 from the floor and built 22-10 advantages in paint points after the first 20 minutes.

Seahawks continued their offensive domination in the third quarter, emphasized by 9-0 mileage to extend the lead to 46-30 to focus on the media waiting by 4:24, left in the quarter. UNCW led by 21 in the third and entered the fourth quarter with a 19 -point lead.

Corus Brooke gathered back, scoring 13 points unanswered to start the fourth quarter and reduce the deficit to 52-44 by 5:42 left in the game. Evan Miller Put the UNCW in front with double numbers again with three index finger, and Seahawks was held off the way to the victory.

Miller finished with seven points and tied the program record for all time from 126 games played. (Treasure Johnson and Martha White – both played in UNCW from 2007-11)

Zaida Gonzalez, the second CAA’s leading goal scorer, ended with the highest 27 points, shooting 12-from-22 of the SEWOLVES pitch.

Forward

UNCW travels to Delaware to take the blue hens on Friday at 6:30 pm. The blue hens have a 37-10 edges in the series of all time, including 20-3 records at home. Seahawks strive to click nine matches without a victorious series against Delaware from 2020. UNCW has been looking for its first victory against Delaware since 2008.

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