Final Stats

PITTSBURGH - The Lafayette women's basketball team capped off its three-game road set with a 67-52 loss to Duquesne in the final non-conference road game of the season on Sunday afternoon at the A.J. Palumbo Center.

In a game where the Dukes (5-6) struggled to find the bottom of the basket, they still had three players eclipse the double-digit scoring mark in the win over the Leopards (1-10), including a pair of 15-point efforts by Amadea Szamosi and Chassi Omogrosso, the team's two leading scorers on the year.

Most of that was possible because the Dukes consistently got the free-throw line and hit their foul shots. Seven of Szamosi's 15 came from the free-throw line and as a team, the Dukes went 23-of-30 from the charity stripe.

The Lafayette defense challenged the Dukes all game long and forced them to take a bevy of contested shots. By the half, the Dukes had made just six shots on 32 attempts and for the game, Duquesne shot just 30 percent from the field.

With the Dukes struggling to find the bottom of the basket, the Leopards went on to outscore Duquesne 8-2 over a five-minute span. By the end of the first quarter though, the Dukes had recaptured the lead, 11-10, after five-unanswered points.

Lafayette got into foul trouble in the first few minutes of the second quarter as three Leopards picked up their second foul and were taken out of the game. During that time, the Dukes used a 9-0 run to grab a five-point lead, 15-10, but the run was halted once Nia Holland went coast-to-coast and laid it in. Lafayette then made it a one-point game following a Hood layup with six minutes to go in the half.

The two teams traded baskets, but then went quiet for over two-minutes as both the Leopards and Dukes struggled to score and combined to miss eight shots. The drought was ended once Anna Ptasinski hit her second three of the afternoon to put the Leopards up 20-19. The Lafayette lead did not hold though as the Dukes tied the game up and then hit a three in the closing seconds of the opening half to grab a 23-20 advantage.

An 8-0 run in the middle of the third quarter allowed the Dukes to extend their three-point halftime lead to 11. The deficit was trimmed to eight at the end of the third once Angela Ribarich buried a jumper, but the Dukes put up five straight points to open up the fourth.

The Dukes benefited from a pair of 3-pointers in the latter stages of the third and the beginning of the fourth from Julijana Vojinovic. Lafayette made it a nine-point game once Sammy Stipa hit a three of her own, but Omogrosso connected on a shot from deep to put the Dukes back up by 12. Stipa ended the afternoon as the Leopards' leading scorer with 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting.

Duquesne would maintain its double-figure lead for the remainder of the game on its way to the 67-52 victory over the Leopards.

The Leopards will be back on the court to wrap up non-conference action against Drexel on Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. at Kirby Sports Center.