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Waterbury, Conn. -Â In a battle for first place in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference North Division, the Post University women's basketball team dropped a 76-58 match at Bloomfield despite 20 points from senior
Aubrey Latham (Mystic, Conn.). It was the first CACC loss for the Eagles on the season.
The first ten minutes of the game saw the teams go back and forth with no team getting a bigger lead than five points, with the game eventually tying at 19 apiece with ten minutes remaining in the first half. During that stretch, Latham scored seven points and junior Jacquelynne Pugh (Grahamsville, N.Y.) scored four points.
From then, the Deacons went on a 23-8 run to take the lead, 42-27 at the break. Latham finished with nine points in the half and Pugh and freshman Liz Falcigno (Middletown, Conn.) each had six. Ivettlis Castro, the Deacons leading scorer on the season, led the team with nine points at the break.
The second half started out the same way the first half ended, with the Deacons scoring the first four points. The Eagles would rally and go on a 11-0 run, as sophomore Hailey Griffin (Plainfield, Conn.) scored seven straight points, and Latham and freshman Dericka Sims (Chesapeake, Va.) each contributed two.
The momentum didn't last long, as the Deacons (7-3, 5-0 CACC) went finished a 20-7 run to put the game away with just over five minutes left in the game.
Sims finished with 11 points in the game, as she was the only other Eagles (4-7, 4-1 CACC) player to score in double figures. Griffin finished with nine points and seven rebounds.
Latham's 20 points puts her at 1,455 points in her career, just 55 points behind all-time leading scorer in school history, Tracey Garofolo (1,510).
The Eagles will take a little bit of a break before returning to action on January 4, 2014, where they take on USciences in a CACC road clash at 1 p.m.
