QU Women's Basketball Earns Fourth-Straight Win With 64-58 Victory Over Hampton

Sunday, December 3

Hampton, VA / Convocation Center

1:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

4-3

Hampton

2-5

Quinnipiac

Hampton University

QU Women's Basketball Earns Fourth-Straight Win With 64-58 Victory Over Hampton

12/3/2017 3:03:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMPTON, Virginia - The Quinnipiac women's basketball team withstood a late Hampton run to hold on and defeat the Lady Pirates, 64-58, on Sunday afternoon at the Hampton Convocation Center.

The win was Quinnipiac's fourth in a row, as the Bobcats close a short two-game road-trip with two wins before heading back to Hamden. Quinnipiac used a balanced attack as Aryn McClure (Springfield Gardens, New York), Carly Fabbri (Stratford, Connecticut) and Paula Strautmane (Riga, Latvia) combined for 41 of the Bobcats' 64 points.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 64 / Hampton 58
RECORDS
Quinnipiac (4-3) | Hampton (2-5)
LOCATION
Hampton Convocation Center / Hampton, Va.

BOBCATS STATISTICAL LEADERS

Points: Carly Fabbri 15, Aryn McClure 14, Paula Strautmane 12
Rebounds: Jen Fay 9, Aryn McClure 7, Taylor Herd 4
Assists: Paula Strautmane, Jen Fay, Aryn McClure, Edel Thornton all had 4
Blocks: Aryn McClure 4, Paula Strautmane 1, Taylor Herd 1

NOTES

The win was Quinnipiac's fourth-straight win.
The victory was the Bobcats' second road win of the season, Quinnipiac finished last season with 11 road victories.
Senior guard Carly Fabbri (Stratford, Connecticut) led the way with 15 points, tying her season-high. Fabbri scored 15 points in the Bobcats win over Richmond on Friday.
Fabbri scored 10 of her 15 points in the second half.
Aryn McClure (Springfield Gardens, New York) added 14 points, seven rebounds and four blocks in the win.
Paula Strautmane (Riga, Latvia) chipped in 12 points as well in the victory.
Aryn McClure recorded her 100th career steal in the first quarter of the contest. McClure's 100 steals lead all active players.
Quinnipiac closed the first quarter on a 7-0 run to take an 18-15 lead heading into the second quarter.
The Bobcats used an 11-0 run in the second quarter to push its lead to 10, its largest of the first half.
The Bobcats knocked down three three-pointers during the run with two coming from Jen Fay (Lynbrook, New York) and one from freshman Chiara Bacchini (Parma, Italy).
After Hampton responded with a 9-0 run of its own, McClure halted it with a mid-range jumper at the buzzer to secure a Quinnipiac three-point point at lead into the half.
Quinnipiac took the lead for the final time after a Fabbri layup gave the Bobcats a 37-35 lead with 7:25 remaining in the third quarter.
Fabbri's layup also sparked a 10-3 run for the Bobcats, which was capped by a Fabbri three as well.
McClure opened the fourth quarter with a three-pointer to push Quinnipiac an 11-point lead, its largest of the game.
Hampton went on an 8-0 run in the fourth to cut the Bobcats' lead to two points, but Quinnipiac never relinquished the lead.
Hampton cut the Quinnipiac lead to just one with just 2:25 remaining, but that would be the last time the Lady Pirates scored in the contest.
With 56 seconds remaining, Strautmane found a cutting Fabbri to score the layup to put Quinnipiac up three, essentially icing the game.
Despite Hampton's late run, the Bobcats held the lead for 84% of the game.

UPCOMING GAME
After going 2-0 on the Virginia road-trip, the Quinnipiac women's basketball team will return home to Hamden and play host to Providence on Wednesday at the TD Bank Sports Center at 7 p.m.