Farmingdale State 56, St. Joseph's-Long Island 51
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. | The Farmingdale State College women's basketball team won its seventh-straight game Saturday afternoon, as the Rams wrapped up the regular season with a 56-51, Skyline Conference victory at St. Joseph's University-Long Island.
FSC (17-8, 14-6 Skyline) is now the No. 4 seed in the 2025 Skyline Conference Women's Basketball Championship, and will play host to the fifth-seeded Golden Eagles (17-8, 13-7) in a first-round match-up on Tuesday night. Game times and the complete set of pairings for the tournament will be released Sunday by the conference office.
For Farmingdale State, the home playoff game marks its first since 2018, while its 17 victories thus far mark the most since the 2014-15 squad posted an 18-win campaign.
Senior guard
Erin Conte (Melville, N.Y.) set a career-high in scoring for the second time in the last three games, using a 10-of-14 display at the free-throw line to lead all players with 19 points. Classmate
Alexandria Walbroehl (Mastic Beach, N.Y.) and sophomore guard
Mia Simmons (Queens, N.Y.) added 11 points apiece, while senior
Gemma Pohalski (Huntington, N.Y.) filled the stat sheet with six points, a 12 rebounds and four steals for the Rams.
After St. Joseph's raced out to a 21-10 lead more than seven minutes into play, FSC responded with the next eight points and eventually closed its margin to 25-24 by halftime.
Walbroehl (eight rebounds, three assists) netted a layup inside the opening minute of the second half to give the Rams their first lead since holding a 2-0 edge at the start of the afternoon. But after the Golden Eagles scored the last four points of the third period to lead 43-40, Farmingdale State held the hosts off the scoreboard for more than seven minutes of action and took the lead for good, 44-43, on a Pohalski layup with 4:59 remaining.
St. Joseph's cut the lead to 46-45 at the 3:48 mark, before a pair from the free-throw line by Conte started a run of six-straight points by the visitors to push FSC's lead to 52-45 on senior guard
Isabella Greenwald's (West Islip, N.Y.) fast-break layup with 1:54 on the clock. Simmons hit two free throws with 13 seconds to go, before Greenwald (seven points, seven rebounds, game-high five steals) added a pair of her own in the final second-plus of action to cap off the Farmingdale State win.
