Daniel Webster College Department of Athletics
Contact: Ken Belbin, Assistant Director of Athletics
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For Immediate Release
January 19, 2010

Women’s Basketball:
at Daniel Webster 65, Lesley 60

Nashua – Sophomore Vanessa Bosques (N. Windham, Conn.) notched 17 points while fellow sophomore Alycia Gervais (Windham, Conn.) added 12 points and eight rebounds as the Daniel Webster College women’s basketball team overcame a seven-point deficit over the final nine minutes and toppled Lesley University, 65-60 to remain perfect in New England Collegiate Conference play Tuesday night at Mario Vagge Gymnasium.

Freshman Ariel Guzman (Yonkers, N.Y.) added a huge spark off the bench registering a career high 11 points and five assists and added two steals as the Eagles (10-4, 5-0) remained in sole possession of first place and completed a season sweep of the Lynx.

Sophomores Kacie Lang (Raymond, N.H.) and Alyssa Regan (Salem, N.H.) added six points each.

Senior Hailee Lowe (Hamilton, Mass.) led the Lynx (4-8, 3-2 NECC) with a game high 22 points including 20 in the first half, while junior Kaitlyn Wechsler (Merrick, N.Y.) added 11 points and six rebounds and junior Brianne Caira (Pelham, N.H.) added 10 points, seven assists and five blocks.

The Eagles 10-4 record is the best in program history after 14 games.

Lesley, behind Lowe’s 20 points going 9 of 15 from the floor in the opening frame, shot 50-percent and held a 35-30 lead at the break, but hit only 31-percent in the second and the Eagles surged hitting 47-percent in the second stanza.

After a Wechsler trey put Lesley up 51-44 with 8:51 left, Gervais followed with an eight-foot jumper sparking a 9-1 run that included a Bosques three-pointer, an Joyce Chagan (Boothbay Harbor, Maine) jumper and a Regan layup with 4:35 left to give the Eagles their first lead since the opening three minutes (53-52).

The teams traded leads five ties over the next four minutes but the Eagles took the lead for good on a Lang layup with 59 seconds left and followed with two at the line with 20 seconds left while the Lynx couldn’t hit the equalizer over their final two possessions.

The Eagles earned important victories inside especially in the second half, outscoring Lesley 16-6 in the paint and added 11 second chance points. DWC would finish with a 46-31 advantage on the boards for the night including 19 on the offensive glass.

The Eagles return to action Thursday night visiting Endicott College for the first time since 2001 in a non-league matchup at 7:00 p.m. in a meeting of long-ago conference foes.

Lesley hosts Newbury Saturday in a NECC meeting at 1:00 p.m.