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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UPEND WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY
January 28, 2012

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UPEND WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY

Orangeburg, NY (1/28/12) The Dominican College women's basketball team upended the visiting Wildcats of Wilmington University, 60-52, this afternoon in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) game played on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center. With the victory, Dominican improves to 9-7 overall and 9-2 in conference play, while Wilmington falls to 1-14 overall and 0-10 in the CACC.

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Orangeburg, NY (1/28/12)  The Dominican College women's basketball team upended the visiting Wildcats of Wilmington University, 60-52, this afternoon in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) game played on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center.  With the victory, Dominican improves to 9-7 overall and 9-2 in conference play, while Wilmington falls to 1-14 overall and 0-10 in the CACC.

The Lady Chargers jumped out to a 14-2 lead with ten and a half minutes to go in the first half as guard Shannon Lavelle (Floral Park, NY) hit a three point basket.  Lavelle connected again with a trey to make the score 30-13 with just under three minutes as Dominican headed into the break with a 30-18 lead.

Over the first almost eight minutes of the second half, DC outscored WU, 17-6, to go ahead 47-24 and never looked back en route to the 60-52 victory.

KC Jentzen (Nanuet, NY) led the Lady Chargers as she came off the bench to score 12 points, shooting 5-7 from the floor.  Lavelle finished with nine points, while Bianca Harris (Teaneck, NJ) also netted nine points and grabbed a game leading 10 rebounds.  Senior Kaity Lent (Vineland, NJ) also scored nine points.

DC returns to action on Monday evening when they travel to non-conference opponent, New York Institute of Technology.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.