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56
Central Conn. St. CCSU 2-24,1-14 NEC
63
Winner Wagner WC 9-16,5-9 NEC
Central Conn. St. CCSU
2-24,1-14 NEC
56
Final
63
Wagner WC
9-16,5-9 NEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Central Conn. St. CCSU 16 21 10 9 56
Wagner WC 16 13 15 19 63

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Krista Grava And Mullen Lead Wagner Past Central Connecticut, 63-56, On Friday

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Staten Island, NY - The Wagner College women's basketball team erased a nine-point halftime deficit after outscoring the Central Connecticut Blue Devils 34-19 over the final 20 minutes of play in picking up a 63-56 home victory on Friday afternoon.

Sophomore forward Emilija Krista Grava netted a game-high 21 points while pulling down a team-high six rebounds in 33 minutes of action.  Redshirt senior guard Janelle Mullen notched her first 20-point performance of the season as she scored 12 of her 20 points from long range while nearly playing the full forty.  Junior Khaleah Edwards chipped in eight points and five rebounds while Mullen and redshirt junior guard Morgan Lenahan each delivered three assists. 

Ashley Berube led the way for the visitors, scoring 16 points and grabbing a game-high eight rebounds in her 32 minutes of play while Emma McCamus added 12 points, four assists and two steals in the setback for the Blue Devils. 
 
The Basics:
  • Records: Wagner (9-16; 5-9 NEC) | Central Connecticut (2-24; 1-14 NEC)
  • Series History - Central Connecticut leads the head-to-head series, 27-18
  • Season Series - Central Connecticut 1, Wagner 1
 
How It Happened:
First Quarter
 
  • Wagner opened the contest on a 10-2 run in taking the eight-point lead after converting on four of its first seven shots from the field, which included two from the outside. 
  • Central Connecticut rallied back with seven unanswered points in trimming the lead to one, 10-9.
  • Krista Grava netted the next four points for the Seahawks before McCamus was able to bank home the layup in making it a one-score contest at 14-13 with thirty-seven seconds showing on the clock.
  • Hobson extended the Wagner lead with a jumper in the paint but Ashley Forker, who finished with five points and five boards, hit a three just as time expired to tie the game at 16. 

 
 
Second Quarter
  • Central Connecticut opened the second quarter on an 8-2 burst in building a 24-18 after Forever Toppin made one-of-two from the free-throw line. 
  • Junior Alayshia Dailey was able to get the putback that halted the CCSU run.
  • The Blue Devils took their largest lead of the contest, 32-23, with 2:36 left before halftime on the strength on an 8-3 run over three minutes that limited the Seahawks to just one made basket, a Krista Grava jumper in the paint. 
  • Mullen got the feed from sophomore guard Raven Pitt and buried the triple to end the visitors' run and cut the lead to six before CCSU closed out the quarter scoring five of the final eight points in taking a 37-29 halftime advantage.
 

Third Quarter
  • Wagner came soaring out of the locker rooms, scoring eight of the quarter's first ten points in cutting the lead to 39-37 after freshman Alex Cowan drilled the corner three-pointer. 
  • Both teams traded baskets with the Blue Devils still holding a 43-39 lead thanks to another jumper in the paint by Berube.
  • Wagner and Central Connecticut couldn't find their earlier rhythm as neither team scored over three minutes before Edwards hit a three-pointer that cut the CCSU lead to one, 43-42, with 2:25 left in the period. 
  • A bad pass from Forker led to a fast-break layup from Mullen, who was finished the well-timed feed from Lenahan, giving Wagner the lead for the first time since the 8:18 mark of the second quarter (18-17). 
  • The lead was short-lived as Jewel Porter scored the final four points in the period as Wagner trailed, 47-44, heading into the final quarter. 
 

Fourth Quarter
  • The opening minutes of the fourth was at a standstill as the two teams combined to turn the ball over five times over the first three minutes before Krista Grava netted her 12th point of the game on a jumper outside-the-paint, which forced a timeout by CCSU. 
  • As play resumed, it was Krista Grava again who served as the catalyst, putting two in on a strong drive to the hoop as the Seahawks regained the lead, 48-47. 
  • Danielle Delano connected from the outside in taking the lead back for CCSU, 50-48 before Edwards tied the game from the free-throw line. 
  • An errant pass from Jamey Napoleon was intercepted by Krista Grava who was able to connect on the 16 footer, giving Wagner the lead, 52-50, with 5:30 left to play. 
  • Berube was able to tie the game on a layup just before the final media timeout of the contest at the 4:17 mark. 
  • Coming out of the break, Mullen sank two freebies that put the Green & White ahead before once again Berube managed to capitalize in the paint to tie the game at 54 apiece.
  • With a little more than two minutes to play, Mullen's shot attempt was swatted away by Tiffany Slicklein and was able to break the tie with a layup at the other end, as CCSU went ahead, 56-54, with 1:47 showing on the clock. 
  • Krista Grava and Mullen put the team squarely on their shoulders, as the second-year Seahawk Krista Grava notched the next five points as the Green & White went up, 59-56, with 29 seconds left. 
  • Central took a timeout and following the break, drew up a play for McCamus, who misfired on a potential game-tying triple, as the loose ball was tracked down by Mullen, who alertly called for time. 
  • With eleven seconds remaining, Mullen was fouled and hit on both attempts increasing the lead to 61-56 before Lenahan added two more late free-throws in securing the seven-point home victory. 
 
  
Inside The Numbers:
  • Krista Grava and Mullen combined to score 41 of the team's 63 points this afternoon on 16 of 29 shooting from the floor with Mullen hitting 4 of 9 from three-point range.
  • For Mullen, this marks her first 20-point game this season and nearly matched her career-high, set a season ago against Saint Francis U on March 4, 2019, when she went for 21.
  • For Krista Grava, the Ligatne, Latvia native has now scored in double figures 16 times this year and hit for at least 20 points in seven games. This afternoon's performance marked the second time in a three-game stretch that she eclipsed the 20-point plateau. 
  • The Seahawks outscored Central Connecticut, 19-9, in the fourth quarter as Wagner shot 83.3 percent from the field (5 of 6) and didn't attempt a three-pointer in the quarter. CCSU was held to 4 of 10 shooting and just 1 of 4 from the outside while missing on all three attempts from the line. 
  • The Green & White created 17 turnovers and turned those Blue Devils mishaps into 20 points while the Blue Devils forced 11 turnovers and only generated six points.
  • CCSU outscored Wagner, 32-26, in the paint and held a 13-7 edge on second-chance points. 
  • This afternoon's game featured ten lead changes and eight ties. 
 

Highlights | Wagner 63, Central Connecticut 56


Postgame Comments
Head Coach Heather Jacobs



 
Up Next:
  • The Seahawks start their final regular-season road trip of the year, beginning on Sunday afternoon, as they travel across the Verrazzano Bridge to Brooklyn to take on the St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers at the Pope Physical Education Center. 
  • Tip-off is set for 1:00 p.m.

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