FINAL STATS

HIGHLIGHTS

Staten Island, NY – Senior center Kelly Clark (Neptune, NJ/ St. Rose) recorded her sixth double-double of the season and 10th of her career with 22 points and 10 rebounds but Bryant received a 26-point outing from guard Danielle Douglas and hit a solid 10-of-14 free throws in the final 3:50 to survive two late three-pointers by junior forward Marie-Laurence Archambault (Montreal, Quebec/ Montmorency) in staving off Wagner 71-67 in a Martin Luther King Day matinee at Spiro Sports Center.

Clark's 22-point effort, which came on 9-of-13 shooting, moves her to within 30 points of becoming the 21^st member of the Seahawk's 1,000-point club as she has now scored 970 points in her career.
 
Bryant improves to 11-6 on the season, 4-2 in the Northeast Conference while the Seahawks, in dropping their 10^th straight, fall to 2-15 overall, 1-5 in league play.
 
The gritty Seahawks were trailing 61-50 when Archambault sank a three-pointer off a feed from freshman forward and fellow Canadian Stephanie Blais (Sherbrooke, Quebec/ Montmorency) to make it a 61-53 game with 4:00 remaining. After Courtney Schissler made a pair of free throws, Clark scored Wagner's next nine points, including a layup at the 1:13 mark that drew the Seahawks to within 67-62.
 
Seahawk freshman point guard Jacqui Thompson (Southampton, PA/ St. Basill Academy) answered two made free throws by Brittany Stahura with a driving layup with 45 seconds to go to make it 69-64. Following a Bryant timeout at the 35-second mark, Stahura made 1-of-2 from the line to push the lead to 70-64. Archambault then made it a one-possession game by nailing her third trey of the afternoon, off a Thompson assist, which made it a 70-67 game with 27 seconds left.
 
Douglas then made 1-of-2 from the line with 23 seconds left. On the ensuing possession, Bryant hurried Archambault into misfiring on two three-point attempts in hanging on for the victory.
 
Trailing 33-23 at halftime, Wagner opened the second half with 8-2 run, spearheaded by Archambault's first three-pointer of the game and capped by a trey by junior Veronick Fournier (Gatineau, Quebec/ Montmorency), that made it a 35-31 game with 17:38 left. Bryant responded with four straight points to go up 39-31 before the Seahawks countered with a 7-2 burst, buoyed by three-point jumpers by Blais and fellow freshman Shawn-Marie Heiliger (Charlotte, NC/ Charlotte Catholic), the latter coming at 13:35 which made it 41-38.
 
The Bulldogs then embarked on a 16-8 run over the next 8:22 to build a 57-46 lead with 8:05 to go. The teams traded baskets for the next four minutes until Archambaut's three-pointer at the 4:00 mark made it 61-53 and set up the late-game theatrics.
 
Archambault and Fournier each finished with nine points on the afternoon while Blais and Heiliger chipped in with seven and six points, respectively.  Wagner held a slim 43 percent to 42 percent edge in shooting while the Seahawks enjoyed a 39-32 edge in the rebounding department. The plus-seven advantage in rebounds tied for the widest margin this season as the Seahawks also held a plus-seven edge at NJIT (11/19).

The Seahawks are next in action on Saturday, January 21 when the Seahawks make the trip across the Verrazano Bridge to meet St. Francis (NY). The matchup between the Seahawks and Terriers is set for 2:00 pm. The Terriers are led by head coach Brenda Milano, a 1995 Wagner College graduate and a 2010 inductee into the Seahawk Hall of Fame.
 
NOTES – Thirty of Wagner's 67 points came on three-point jumpers as the Seahawks recorded season highs in three-pointers made (10) and attempted (24) against Bryant. The 67 points scored by Wagner marked the Seahawks' second-highest output of the season and are the most scored in a regulation game. Wagner scored 72 points in a 73-72 overtime loss to New Hampshire (12/21). The 26 made field goals are also second on the year (29 vs. New Hampshire 12/21) as are the 19 assists (22 vs. New Hampshire 12/21). Against Bryant, Clark scored 18 of her 22 points in the second half on 8-of-9 shooting. In the last two games, vs. Central Connecticut St. (1/14) and vs. Bryant, Clark is shooting a sizzling 68 percent (15-of-22) from the field, 85 percent from the line (11-of-13) while averaging 21 points and nine rebounds. The 6-3 Clark had 20 points and eight rebounds on 6-of-9 shooting vs. the Blue Devils and followed up that effort with 22 points, on 9-of-13 from the field and10 rebounds. The 6-00 Blais followed her career-high 11-point outing vs. Central Connecticut St. (1/14) with a seven-point game vs. the Bulldogs. Blais shot 43 percent (6-of-14) in the two games, including a nifty 5-of-11 (46 percent) from beyond the arc. With 4:36 left in first half, redshirt junior forward Chanez Robinson (Newark, NJ/ Shabazz) left the game with an apparent leg injury and did not return.