Box Score RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Felician University women's basketball team was defeated, 88-58, by visiting University of the Sciences in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference action on Saturday afternoon at Job Gymnasium.
Felician freshman swing player Briana Lee (Jersey City, N.J./Irvington) scored 11 points with eight rebounds, both team highs. Classmate Rosie Arias (Linden, N.J./Linden) matched her season high of 10 points and established another with three steals.
USciences senior guard Jordan Vitelli (Warrington, Pa./Central Bucks South) (6-8 FG, 4-6 3FG) recorded 16 points and five rebounds in 11 minutes. The Devils' Jess Huber (Hatfield, Pa./North Penn) netted 12 points and fellow junior guard Irisa Ye (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) totaled 11 points and five assists.
USciences (22-3, 15-1 CACC) earned its 16th consecutive victory. The Devils, the first-place team in the CACC South Division, are ranked 23rd and 18th in the latest national NCAA Division II coaches' and media polls, respectively, and second in the East Region.
The Devils, who never trailed, took control early. They held Felician without a field goal for the first six minutes, 43 seconds of action. By that point, the visitors had piled up a 22-1 lead. Briana Boyd (Lumberton, N.J./Rancocas Valley) broke the spell with a layup and free throw, but that concluded the first-period scoring for the Golden Falcons, who trailed at the buzzer, 27-4.
During the first 10 minutes of action, the Devils were 9 for 14 from the field, including 6 of 10 from distance, with Vitelli already scoring 11 points. Felician, meanwhile went 1 for 11 plus nine turnovers.
The Devils led by as many as 31 points on two occasions in the second quarter, and a late Gisella Romeo (Marlboro, N.J./Marlboro) three-pointer allowed USciences to carry a 48-19 edge into halftime. After the teams traded buckets to start the third, Huber buried three consecutive threes for a 59-23 Devil edge. That margin held to the end of the quarter, 73-37. Romeo's three with 8:02 left gave her team its largest spread, 79-41, before Felician finished up with a 17-9 upswing.
The Devils outshot Felician, 52-28 percent. USciences was 14 for 27 from three-point range and owned a 49-35 rebounding advantage. Fourteen players appeared in the game for the Devils, with all logging between 11 and 19 minutes, and all but one scoring.
Felician (3-19, 2-13) plays the CACC's other first-place team, North Division leader Post University, on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in Waterbury, Conn.
