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senior day
Marshal Filipowicz
56
Monmouth MON 12-15,8-8 MAAC
65
Winner Canisius CAN 10-17, 8-8 MAAC
Monmouth MON
12-15,8-8 MAAC
56
Final
65
Canisius CAN
10-17, 8-8 MAAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Monmouth MON 17 12 12 15 56
Canisius CAN 16 16 16 17 65

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Hinriksdottir Leads Women’s Basketball to Senior Day Win

Game Recap
All four Canisius women's basketball seniors contributed to the Golden Griffins Senior Day win over Monmouth, 65-56. Sara Hinriksdottir led the way for Canisius with 24 points, five rebounds, six assists and a perfect 5-for-5 mark from 3-point land.

Canisius moves to 10-17 overall and 8-8 in MAAC play while the Hawks fall to 12-15 overall and 8-8 in league.
 
Maria Welch added seven points, three rebounds while fellow seniors Amanda Schiefen and Zhane Irby tallied six and three points, respectively. Junior D'Jhai Patterson-Ricks recorded 16 points, seven assists and three rebounds in the win. Canisius finished the game with a field goal percentage of 47.1 percent, including a 53.3 percent mark from the perimeter. The Golden Griffins edged Monmouth on the glass 37-36, and in points in the paint 26-16.
 
Monmouth had two players score double-digits, with Sierra Green leading the way with 15 points, going 5-for-18 from the floor, including 4-for-16 from deep. Lucy Thomas scored 12 points and teammate Alexa Middleton grabbed 10 rebounds. Canisius held the Hawks to just 28.3 percent from the field and 21.9 percent from behind the arch. The Hawks went to the line a total of 20 times, making 15, for a 75.0 percent clip.
 
Canisius jumped out to a 10-2 lead 4:20 into the ball game and went into the media timeout with a 12-7 advantage over the Hawks. Following the media timeout, Monmouth used a 10-4 run, capped off by a 3-pointer from McKinzee Barker that gave the Hawks their first lead of the game, 16-17.
 
After trading leads for a majority of the second quarter, Canisius took the lead back for the fifth and final time after Hinriksdottir found Schiefen with a bounce pass that led to the go-ahead lay-in, to make the score 30-29. The Griffs added two more points before the half ended to have a four-point cushion at the break, 32-29.
 
The Griffs didn't let go of the lead in the entire second half, only allowing Monmouth to get as close as two-points in the third quarter before building its lead to as much as 12 points in the fourth quarter. Canisius would take that 12-point advantage into the final minute of the game before Green hit her fourth 3-pointer of the game to trim it to a nine-point margin for the Griffs and give us our 65-56 final.
 
Head Coach Scott Hemer's Postgame Comments
"The seniors deserve a lot of credit because it's not an easy situation anytime there is a transition in the coaching staff. I think all four of those seniors did a lot to give me a chance, to give what we were trying to do a chance and they deserve a lot of credit for that."
 
"We spent the last day or two talking about what is our goal for the rest of the year, what is our purpose at this point and until you figure that out we are just going to keep going through the motions. Today we said, even if your purpose is just senior day, play together towards something in common and I thought they did that and it reflected in the outcome"  
 
Game Notes
• With the win, Canisius ties the all-time series with Monmouth at seven-all.
• Canisius is now 4-0 in MAAC games when they record 15 or more assists in a game.
• The Griffs move to 10-1 when leading at the half and 9-1 when leading after three quarters of play.
• The defeat of Monmouth is the Golden Griffins first win on a Sunday this season, going 0-3 until this point.
• With her lone 3-pointer of the game, Erie, Pa., native now sits seventh all-time with 154 made treys for her career.
• Hinriksdottir's five 3-pointers are a career high for the forward and she is the first Griff to hit five 3-pointers in a game since Sarah Cooley did so on Jan. 10, 2016 against Iona.
• For the third time in her four-year career, Scheifen scored six-points. The senior took a career-high eight shots.
• Patterson-Ricks set a new career-high in assists with seven, surpassing her previous high of six she had against Iona on Feb. 4.
 
Up Next
Canisius plays host to rival Niagara on Wednesday for this season's final installment of the "Battle of the Bridge". The Griffs look to split the season-series with the Purple Eagles at 5 p.m. on ESPN3 before heading to Riverdale, N.Y., for the regular-season finale against Manhattan.
 
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