Cold Shooting Plagues Women's Basketball In Home Loss To Pace

Bridgeport, Conn.-The University of Bridgeport women's basketball team suffered back-to-back losses for the first time this season, as the Purple Knights dropped a 79-66 home, non-conference decision to the visiting pace University Setters in Hubbell Gym on Tuesday night in Hubbell Gym.  UB is now 7-3 overall, and Pace ups its overall mark to 7-5.

Cold shooting plagued the hosts all night long, as Bridgeport hit only 29.0 percent of its field goals (20-of-69) went 5-of-21 from behind the three-point line (23.8 percent).

Pace grabbed its biggest lead of the evening at 19 points, 58-39 at the end of the third quarter, and UB could pull no closer than an eight-point deficit, 74-66, with 1:11 to play in the contest.

Senior Evelyn Ovner (Vallentuna, Sweden) led the Purple Purple Knights on the evening with a double-double of 17 points and a game-high 16 rebounds. 

Ovner was joined in double-digit scoring by junior Aurelie Leblanc-Florent (Longueuil, Quebec, Canada) with 13 points and senior Camera Miley (Brooklyn, N.Y.) chipped in 11 points.

UB junior Morgen Caution (Baltimore, Md.) also reached double figures in rebounding grabbing 11 boards for the Purple Knights.

Pace's Alexandra Monteleone led all players in scoring on the night with 21 points.

The UB women's basketball team will look to get back in the win column on Thursday night when they return to East Coast Conference play at St. Thomas Aquinas College.  Game time is set for 5:30 p.m.