Women’s Basketball Blasts Rivier, 88-45, in Regular-Season Finale

NASHUA, N.H. – Suffolk women's basketball put an exclamation point on its regular-season with an 88-45 convincing win over Rivier Saturday afternoon at Muldoon Gymnasium. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 88 | Rivier 45
RECORDS: Suffolk (17-8, 8-3 GNAC) | Rivier (4-20, 0-11 GNAC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Suffolk started the game on a 9-2 run with all the scoring coming from Jenni-Rose DiCecco. That early opening remained at the end of the first 10 minutes in the Rams' favor, 25-9.  

The second stanza was a see-saw affair that had the Raiders go basket-for-basketball. Thanks to its first frame advantage though, Suffolk headed into half time ahead, 43-26.  

The blue-and-gold put the game away out of the intermission as it outscored the hosts 22-8 over the third set of 10 minutes to extend it advantage to 65-34.  

Suffolk's scoring kept up in the fourth frame with nearly every player producing at least two points to help secure the 88-45 victory.  

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• DiCecco's 15 points anchored the offense. The floor general distributed four assists, had six steals, three rebounds and one block in 25 minutes. 
• Alexis Hackett helped on both ends of the floor with a 13-point, eight-rebound, four-assist, four-steal, one-block day. 
• Natalie Fraioli completed the trio in double figures with 12 points behind a 5-for-6 showing from the floor to go along with four caroms. 
• Gabriella DeComo and Lily Patneaude each contributed nine points with the latter's coming sticking from three-point land, where she shot 3-for-3. 
• As a team, Suffolk shot 58.1 percent (36-62) on the day and 40.0 percent (6-15) from downtown. 
• The Rams also edged out the Raiders on the glass, 39-31.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk defeated Rivier for the sixth straight meeting to move to 25-5 all-time against the Raiders. 
• DiCecco matched a career-high six takeaways. 
• Rachel LaSaracina dished out three helpers, which match a personal-best. 
• Kaleigh Matulonis' three steals are a personal-high. 
• Alli Cavallo matched career-highs in points (6), and rebounds (3) and set a new personal-best in field goals made with a 3-for-4 effort. 
• Patneaude's nine points off three triples made each match a personal-high.   

POST-GAME PIC
 

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Suffolk awaits the official seeding of the 2019-20 GNAC Tournament, which will be released Saturday night.