Box Score Above: Redshirt freshman guard Jazmine Hamlet (Queens, NY/Francis Lewis) delivered a productive floor game vs. Stony Brook, demonstrating her versatility with 10 points six rebounds and four steals (all career highs).

Final Box Score (HTML)

Stony Brook, NY – Freshman guard Jasmine Nwajei (Rockaway Park, NY/Murry Bergtraum) scored 11 points, while redshirt freshman guard Jazmine Hamlet (Queens, NY/Francis Lewis) and sophomore guard Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) added 10 points apiece, but Stony Brook was able to withstand a second-half Seahawk run to pull away for a 70-51 win.

Today's game was the nightcap of a doubleheader that capped the two-day Seawolves Holiday Classic presented by Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook. With the win, the host Seawolves moved their season mark to 8-3 while the Seahawks are now 1-9.

Sabre Proctor, a physical 6-0 junior forward, and bouncy 6-1 junior guard Jessica Ogunnorin, each recorded double-doubles in leading Stony Brook to victory. Proctor tossed in 20 points, buoyed by a 10-of-11 effort from the free throw line, to go with 13 rebounds. Ogunnorin, meanwhile, contributed 12 points while pulling down a game-high 15 rebounds.

For the game, Stony Brook out-shot Wagner 41% to 36%, while holding a commanding 50-26 edge in the rebounding department. Wagner was charged with 28 personal fouls on the afternoon while Stony Brook was whistled 16 times. The Seawolves took full advantage if their advantage at the free throw line, knocking down 29-of-35, an 83% clip. Wagner, meanwhile, went to the line just eight times, making three, which is just 38%.

In the noon contest held prior to the Wagner-Stony Brook contest, Eastern Michigan (9-1) posted a 64-53 victory over Monmouth (1-10). On the first day of the Classic held on Saturday, Eastern Michigan pulled away late in holding off Wagner 69-56 before Stony Brook posted a 69-52 win over Monmouth in the nightcap.

The first half of today's Seahawk-Seawolves tussle was a defensive-minded one with Stony Brook seizing a 27-20 lead at intermission. Wagner held a slim 31%-29% edge in field goal shooting at the break but the Seawolves enjoyed a huge advantage at the free throw line, going 12-of-12 from the charity stripe in while the Seahawks were 0-of-3 in the opening stanza.

Stony Book converted the first two buckets of the second half in opening a 31-20 lead and maintained that 11-point edge at 41-30 before Wagner ripped off five straight in pulling to within six. Freshman guard Lyndsay Rowe (South River, NJ/St. John Vianney) nailed a left wing three-pointer off a Hamlet feed at 13:12 to make it 41-33. The 5-7 Hamlet, who delivered the most productive outing of her 10-game career, then hit a cutting Nwajei in the lane for a layup at the 12:15 mark, drawing the Seahawks to within six at 41-35.

The Seawolves responded with baskets by Chikilra Goodman and Brittany Snow to push the lead to 10 at 45-35 with 9:14 left and Stony Brook was able to maintain its double-digit margin the rest of the way.

Hamlet gained her second consecutive start after coming off the bench in seven games to start the season. Aggressive on both ends of the floor throughout, Hamlet's 10 points, as well as her six assists and four steals, were career highs. In logging a career-high 31 minutes of playing time, the hard-nosed Queens, NY native also set career marks in field goals made (4) and attempted (8). Included in those four made field goals were the first two three-pointers of her career as she was 2-of-2 from beyond the mark.

After a tough first half, where she was held to two points on 1-of-7 shooting, Peck got it going for a stretch early in the second half as Wagner attempted to make its comeback. In a span of just 2 minutes and 51 seconds, the 5-7 lefty knocked down for straight baskets on a a trio of jump shots, followed by a driving layup at the 13:56 mark that made it 39-30. This eight-point burst would prove to be Peck's only points of the second half, however, as the Seawolves' limited the Northeast Conference's (NEC) fourth-leading scorer to 10 points on 5-of-14 shooting. Peck, who has hit for double figures in eight of 10 games while topping the 20-point mark in five, is now averaging 17.7 points per game.

Nwajei also made things happen, adding three rebounds, two assists, one steal, and a block to her team-high 11-point effort, but was also held largely in check, winding up 5-of-17 from the field. Rowe turned in another steady effort, hitting 3-of-7 from the field, including 2-of-4 from long range, finishing with eight points in a 35-minute stint. Redshirt sophomore center Ugo Nwaigwe (Valley Stream, NY/Valley Stream South), the NEC's leading shot-blocker at 2.9 per game, added six points, three rebounds, one block and one steal for Wagner which unveiled a brand new starting lineup vs. Stony Brook.

Freshmen wing Maria Conyers-Jordan (Philadelphia, PA/Friends' Central) and power forward Jackie Dluhi (Middletown, NJ/Middletown South) gained their first career starts alongside Peck, Hamlet, and Rowe. Nwajei and Nwaige were inserted into the line following at the first media timeout of the first half.

Wagner is next in action on Monday, December 30, when the Seahawks travel to Newark, NJ to meet NJIT in the final non-conference game of the season before Northeast Conference play begins on January 4 at home vs. LIU Brooklyn.