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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL BEATS NYACK COLLEGE
February 9, 2012

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL BEATS NYACK COLLEGE

Orangeburg, NY (2/9/12) The Dominican College women's basketball team defeated the visiting Warriors of Nyack College, 72-49, this evening in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest played on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center. With the win, Dominican improves to 11-10 overall and 10-4 in conference play, while Nyack falls to 1-18 overall and 1-14 in the CACC.

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Orangeburg, NY (2/9/12)  The Dominican College women's basketball team defeated the visiting Warriors of Nyack College, 72-49, this evening in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest played on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center.  With the win, Dominican improves to 11-10 overall and 10-4 in conference play, while Nyack falls to 1-18 overall and 1-14 in the CACC.

The first half saw the Lady Chargers score 10 unanswered points to quickly take a 10-0 lead.  DC lead 21-8 with 6:20 to go in the first stanza, but the Warriors cut the deficit to 26-18 with just under three and a half minutes to play.  An 8-2 run by Dominican ended the first half with the scoring being 36-22.

KC Jentzen (Pearl River, NY) and LaShonda Hathorne (Queens, NY) led the Lady Chargers as they each scored 10 points, with Jentzen shooting 4-4 from the floor.

Nyack opened the second half with five straight points to cut the deficit to single digits (36-27), but that would be as close as they would get as DC went on a 6-0 run to go ahead 42-27 and led by as many as 28 points (65-37) with 4:50 to play en route to the 72-49 victory.

Jentzen led all scorers and four Lady Chargers in double figures with 14 points and had seven rebounds.  Hathorne finished with 13 points and five boards, while sisters Samantha Klunk (York, PA) and Marley Klunk (York, PA) each scored 10 points a piece, with M. Klunk grabbing a team leading eight rebounds.

Dominican is back in action on Saturday when they host Philadelphia University in a CACC contest scheduled to begin at 1:30 pm.  Saturday will also be the 11th Annual Sue Heller Memorial Game on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center.

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.