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South Orange, NJ – Sophomore guard Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) continued her hot shooting, leading Wagner with 17 points, and senior forward Laura Amorosa (Kirkland, Quebec/Montmorency) posted career highs with 14 points and eight rebounds, but Seton Hall was able to stave off the Seahawks by a count of 86-61.

With the loss, the Seahawks fall to 1-3 on the season while the Pirates of the Big East Conference improve to 4-1.

Brittany Webb led a balanced Pirate effort with 18 points, Tabatha Richardson-Smith had 15 while Sidney Cook and Chizoba Ekedigwe added 13 and 11 points, respectively.

Wagner took a 5-4 lead on a layup by redshirt sophomore center Ugo Ngwaigwe (Valley Stream, NY/Valley Stream South) at the 17:33 mark of the opening half. The Pirates then utilized their size and athleticism to embark on a 21-1 run over the next 7:32, capped by a Cook three-pointer in taking a 25-6 lead midway through the first half.

With Wagner trailing 33-15, the Seahawks then got hot from deep, draining four three-pointers over the final 3:27 to head into the locker room down by just 12 at 43-31. Amorosa knocked down three of those late first-half three-pointers with Peck draining the other.

By halftime, Amorosa had already eclipsed her previous career high of 11 as she scored all 14 of her points in a first half that saw her shoot 5-of-8 from the field, including 4-of-7 marksmanship from beyond the arc. In her productive and efficient 19-minute first half, the 5-11 Amorosa added six rebounds and an assist. In the first half alone, Amorosa's four made three-pointers set a career high as her previous high for a game was two. In addition, those six first-half rebounds were one shy of her career high of seven.

The second half opened with buckets by Peck and Seton Hall's Janee Johnson, followed by a Rowe jumper, which cut the Seahawks' deficit to 11 at 46-35 with 17:49 to play. This is as close as Wagner would get, however, as the Pirates responded with a 10-0 spurt, capped by a Cook jumper, that pushed the lead to 21 at 56-35 with 14:39 to go. The Seahawks would get no closer than 18 the rest of the way.

The Pirates did a tough defensive job on freshman guard Jasmine Nwajei (Rockaway Park, NY/Murry Bergtraum) in the opening half, holding her scoreless on 0-of-5 shooting. Nwajei, who entered as Wagner's second-leading scorer at 16.3 points per game, tallied nine second-half points and also finished with two assists, two steals and three rebounds.

Freshman wing Maria Conyers-Jordan (Philadelphia, PA/Friends' Central) provided a seven-point spark off the bench in 14 minutes of action while classmate Lyndsay Rowe (South River, NJ/St. John Vianney) added six.

Peck, who is averaging a team-high 17.5 points per game, had a solid stat line with her 17 points coming on 6-of-12 shooting (5-of-11 from three-point range), to go with a team-high five assists, two rebounds and one block.

For the game, Seton Hall out-shot Wagner 53% to 31% but the Green & White turned in a commendable effort on the glass, as the Pirates held a slim 43-42 edge in the rebounding department.

Wagner returns to action on Tuesday, November 26 when the Seahawks play host to the Catamounts of Vermont in a 7:00 pm tip at the Spiro Sports Center.