St. Joseph's-Long Island 82, Farmingdale State 66
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. | The Farmingdale State College women's basketball team fell in Skyline Conference play Saturday afternoon, 82-66, to visiting St. Joseph's University-Long Island.
The Rams (5-7, 3-4 Skyline) jumped out in front 8-7 on a 3-pointer by junior
Gemma Pohalski (Huntington, N.Y.) 4:29 into play, before the Golden Eagles (9-4, 6-2) scored the next 15 points of the contest as part of a 20-2 run to end the first period with a 27-10 lead over FSC.
St. Joseph's collected the first six points of the second quarter, before a conventional 3-point play by senior
Emily Pohalski (Huntington, N.Y.) with 8:07 showing on the clock momentarily stopped the visitors' run. FSC sliced its deficit to 45-27 when junior
Isabella Greenwald (W. Islip, N.Y.) buried a trifecta with under a minute to go, before a nine-point spurt by the Golden Eagles pushed their lead to 54-27 at halftime.
The second half started with seven-consecutive points from Farmingdale State, including a trey from senior
Layla Mendoza (Westhampton Beach, N.Y.) and back-to-back layups from freshman forward
Taneece Wooden (Freeport, N.Y.), to cut its deficit to 54-34. St. Joseph's canned a 3-pointer out of a time out to halt the hosts' spurt, before the Rams later got to within 19 when Wooden knocked down a pair of free throws with 1:35 remaining in the third period to pull to within a 65-46 margin. Farmingdale State got as close as an 80-66 count late in the game, when sophomore guard
Julia Dessart (Smithtown, N.Y.) scored five-straight points in the final 1:16 of action.
Wooden led all players with 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting to go with seven rebounds, while
Emily Pohalski chipped in with eight points, three assists and two steals.
Gemma Pohalski added seven points and a game-high-tying eight boards for the Rams, with freshman
Mia Simmons (Jamaica, N.Y.) checking in with six points and four caroms. Mendoza, Greenwald, Dessart and sophomore
Adrianna Romo-Leroux (Selden, N.Y.) all added five points apiece for the hosts.Â
Head coach
Mark Dellecave's FSC team is back in Skyline action Wednesday night (Jan. 10), when it travels to Newburgh, N.Y., for a 7 p.m. start at Mount Saint Mary College.
