Women's Basketball Drops Regular Season Finale At C.W. Post, 60-53
Purple Knights Will Host Molloy On Wednesday Night In Quarterfinals Of ECC Championship Tournament
Brookville, N.Y.-The University of Bridgeport women's basketball team closed out its 2010-11 regular season with a 60-53 East Coast Conference loss against the host C.W. Post Pioneers on Saturday afternoon. UB enters the East Coast Conference Championship Tournament as the number three seed with an overall record of 15-13 and an ECC mark of 13-8. C.W. Post enters the ECC Tournament as the number four seed with an overall record of 14-12 and a conference record of 12-9.
Sophomore Elsebeth Birman (Sliver Spring, Md.) led the Purple Knights in scoring with a game-high 19 points. Birman was joined in double figures by senior Kelly Keil (Sparta, N.J.), who had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds and junior Julia Colley (Harlow, England) with 10 points.
Janea Aiken Led the victorious Pioneers with 18 points.
Bridgeport will be back in action in the quarterfinals of the 2011 East Coast Conference Championship Tournament on Wednesday night, March 2 when they host the number-six seed Molloy College Lions. Game time in Hubbell Gym is set for 6:00 p.m.