Box Score PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia University women's basketball team recorded its third consecutive victory as the Rams defeated Georgian Court 62-50 in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) clash Tuesday night in the Gallagher Center.
Rachel Day (Horsham, Pa./Archbishop Wood) had a strong first half on her way to a career-high 19 points. Tori Arnao (Newtown, Pa./Archbishop Wood)—the most recent CACC player of the week—recorded her third straight double-double, fourth of the year, as she filled up the stat sheet with 13 points, 17 rebounds, five steals, four assists, and two blocks.
Mary Newell (Lansdale, Pa./Villa Joseph Marie) added a season-best 17 points and eight rebounds for the Rams (3-2, 2-0 CACC).
Philadelphia finished the game with 49 rebounds and 15 steals, both season highs.
Day was the Philadelphia offense as the start of the contest, hitting four of her first six shots to score 11 points and get the Rams out to an 11-5 lead. Newell extended the gap to seven (13-6) with a basket at the 3:49 mark of the opening quarter.
Georgian Court (0-5, 0-2 CACC) scored the final eight points of the quarter, capped off by a Jess Placher 3-pointer as time ran out, to take an 18-17 lead at the break.
After Day and Placher traded threes to kick off the second, Philadelphia used suffocating defense and a balanced offense to go on a 16-0 run over a 6:13 span to open up a 36-21 lead with 2:29 left. The Lions were 0-of-7 shooting and turned the ball over five times. Meanwhile, the Rams hit six of their 12 attempts. Newell and Arnao scored five points each, Kelsey Jones () added four, and Day contributed two.
The Rams' lead dipped below 10 just once in the second half when Jaelyn Tweedy, who had 14 points for the Lions, knocked down a 3-pointer with 3:50 left in the third quarter to make the score 50-41. Philadelphia answered the triple with 11 straight points, five from Bria Young (Philadelphia, Pa./Prep Charter), to go ahead by 20 (61-41) on a Young free throw at the 5:48 mark of the final quarter.
Placher finished the game with 14 points.
Georgian Court shot 36.4 percent, while Philadelphia connected on 31.1 percent of its shots. The Rams scored 16 points off of 21 Lion turnovers. Georgian Court had only four points off of turnovers.
Philadelphia goes on the road for the first time this season to participate in this weekend's 51st Annual Pocono Classic at East Stroudsburg University. The Rams open the Classic against Glenville State on Saturday, Nov. 28 at 1 p.m.
