Women’s Basketball Stumbles on Road to Lehigh

Wednesday, February 21

Bethlehem, PA

6:00 PM

Army West Point

Lehigh University

Women’s Basketball Stumbles on Road to Lehigh

February 21, 2024 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Army West Point women's basketball team (11-13, 8-6 PL) fell on the road to the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (15-10, 7-7 PL), 77-60. Army gave up 32 points in the third quarter, which proved to be the difference in the game.

How It Happened

Lehigh's Maddie Albrecht dropped a season-high 28 points, on 10-13 shooting to pace the Mountain Hawks' 77-point outburst over Army. Lehigh shot 47.4% from three-point (9-19).

In the opening quarter, Army struggled shooting from the field, shooting just 3-15 (20%). Army's defense was solid and kept them in the game, forcing eight turnovers as Lehigh led 15-8 after one quarter.

The Mountain Hawks opened a 14-point lead early in the second quarter when Colleen McQuillen connected on her second three-pointer of the evening.

Army trailed by 13 at the 4:43 mark in the second quarter but got hot, going on a 9-0 run, including a three-point play by Trinity Hardy in what became a 17-4 run for Army to take a one-point lead into halftime.

During the scoring run, freshman Fiona Hastick nailed a three to pull Army within one, 28-27 with under a minute to go and then Reese Ericson connected from deep with five seconds left for Army to take its first lead of the night and into the locker room, 30-29.

Hardy led all scorers with 14 first-half points.

In the third quarter, Army and Lehigh traded blows for the first several minutes as Hastick hit a tightly contested three to knot the game up at 39-39.

Hastick would finish with 15 points, on 5-12 shooting, making three three-pointers.

From there on, it was all Lehigh as they went on an 11-0 scoring run which featured three three-pointers by Albrecht, Gracyn Lovette and Whitney Lind to push the Mountain Hawks back up, 50-39.In total, Lehigh piled on 32 points in the quarter, shooting 11-15 from the field and 6-8 from three as they doubled up Army in the scoring column 32-17 in the third quarter.

Army entered the fourth down 14.

Army got the lead down to 11 but could not make a substantial dent into the Lehigh lead, falling 77-60.

Hardy led Army with 22 points (8-15 shooting) with seven rebounds.

Inside the Box

It was Trinity Hardy's third game this season scoring 20 or more points.
Hastick has scored in double figures in three straight games, her first such streak of the season. In that span she is averaging 18.3 points per game and is shooting 9-21 from three-point range (42.8%). She has made three or more threes in her last two games.
Freshman Camryn Tade made her second consecutive start.

Up Next

The Black Knights return home on Saturday to play Bucknell at 1pm at Christl Arena in what will be Army's "Pink" game. Fans attending are asked to wear pink.

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