SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Senior forward Roxkel Washington finished with a season-high 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting which included two made three pointers and one free throw, but a over 50% shooting performance from the field on Wednesday night and from beyond the arc by American International College (AIC), ranked 10^th in the East Region, would sink the Eagles on the road, 94-70. Post drops to 3-5 to start the season with the loss as they continue to search for their first two-game winning streak of the young season.

THE BASICS

Post University 70, American International College (AIC) 94

Post University (3-5)

American International College (AIC) (6-1)

HOW IT HAPPENED
A competitive matchup early on quickly turned in favor of AIC after the first quarter in which five points from graduate guard Amaya Santiago and a three from graduate point guard Dede Stevenson helped Post take an 8-2 lead to start. It was a lead they would maintain until freshman shooting guard Ruzgar Christina Boyle nailed a three to tie things up at 11 all. Four first-quarter threes by the Eagles helped them keep pace with the Yellow Jackets and take a four-point lead, 25-21, heading into the second.
 
Outscoring Post, 26-11, in the second quarter would help AIC take the lead and never look back in the contest. It started with a 10-0 run while trailing by four as graduate guard Kayla Robinson hit a pair of shots and the Yellow Jackets hit two threes as well to go ahead by six, 33-27. By the end of the first half, the lead would grow to as many as 13 points prior to graduate forward Taina Pagan making a jumper with 31 seconds to send the Eagles into the half trailing by 11 points, 47-36.
 
In the first three minutes and change of the third, AIC would hit the ground running with a 9-0 run that saw their lead blossom to a game-high 20 points at that stage of the game would be. Graduate shooting guard Maya Klein spurred on an 11-0 run for Post with a jumper and a three ball and graduate guard TiJanae Simmons tacked on one of her three long balls that trimmed the deficit to nine, 61-52.
 
That would be the last time the deficit would shrink to double digits before ballooning to as many as 27 points in the fourth quarter. The Eagles would be unable to keep pace with a blistering hot shooting day by AIC which saw them make 33-of-65 shots overall (50.8%) and an impressive 12-for-23 day (52.2%) from three-point land as they fell to a regionally-ranked opponent for the third time this season, 94-70.
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Finishing with those 13 points, Roxkel Washington was just one point away from tying her career high of 14 points set last season against Queens College on November 17^th, 2022
• So far this season, Post University is 1-3 against teams that have or were ranked in the D2CSC East Region Poll at the time of playing them
• For the second consecutive game, five Post players recorded double-digit point totals in Roxkel Washington (13 points), Dede Stevenson, Amaya Santiago, TiJanae Simmons, and Maya Klein (11 points)
• In the all-time series, Post University is now 2-7 against AIC and saw their two-game winning streak against the Yellow Jackets get snapped with tonight's loss

WHO'S NEXT
Post University will have 10 days off before traveling to Colchester, Vermont on December 16^th to take on Saint Michael's College at 2:00 PM. Holding on 0-3 record against the Purple Knights all-time, the Eagles dropped their last matchup against them during the 2021-22 season in Vermont, 85-76, after getting outscored by 13 points in the fourth quarter.