Women’s Basketball Downs Curry, 64-42

BEVERLY, Mass. — The Endicott women's basketball team defeated Curry, 64-42, in a Conference of New England (CNE) clash at MacDonald Gymnasium on Tuesday evening.

Emma Shinney (Wakefield, Mass.) stuffed the stat sheet with 17 points (8-12 FG), seven rebounds, and five dimes.

Sarah Dempsey (Windham, N.H.) netted 11 points, hauled in nine boards, and swiped five steals. 

Cora Nadeau (Newport, Vt.) generated 10 points (4-8 FG, 2-5 3PT) off the bench, while Tricia Wladkowski (Norwood, Mass.) added 10 points to round out the personal highlights for Endicott.

The Gulls soared out to an early 15-7 lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back.

From there, the Blue and Green manufactured an 8-2 scoring run to take its largest lead of the half (32-17). The stretch was propelled by a Dempsey lay-in, a Wladkowski layup, and back-to-back jumpers by Shinney.

Endicott never surrendered its double-digit lead in the second half and took its largest lead of 62-39 with 3:24 to play via a Tenley Wallin (Danbury, Conn.) jumper. 

A lockdown defensive effort that held Curry to 3-13 (23.1%) from bonus distance helped the Gulls to their fourth straight victory. 

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• The Gulls are 7-2 at home this season and are 25-1 against Curry all-time at home.
• After her 11-point performance, Dempsey is now 34 points away from reaching Melissa Tarpy '98 on the all-time leaderboard (1st all-time; 1,560 points).
• The Gulls shot a conference-best 42.8% from the field per game before tonight's game.
• The hosts' reserves outscored the visitors' bench, 25-7.
• Endicott caused 23 turnovers which translated to 23 points on the other end.

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott (13-5, 9-2 CNE) remains at The Nest against Wentworth on Saturday, February 1 at 1:00 PM. Saturday's contest serves as Senior Day for the Blue and Green. Curry (6-12, 3-8 CNE) visits Nichols on Saturday at 1:00 PM. 

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(Photo Credit - Sammy LaCorcia '28)