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Chris Mueller's Take
Moon Township, Pa. / Charles L. Sewall Center – The
Robert Morris University women's basketball team went on an 11-0 run to break open a tight game and secure an 83-69 victory over Keystone State rival Saint Francis University at the Sewall Center Saturday afternoon. The win was the third straight for the Colonials who improve to 8-8 overall and 4-1 in NEC games. The Red Flash slip to 4-12 and 2-3 in league play.
Senior forward
Artemis Spanou (Rhodes, Greece / Nea Smyrni) narrowly missed out on a triple-double finishing with 25 points, 19 rebounds and nine assists. She finished 8-of-11 from the field and was 9-of-9 from the charity stripe. She added two steals while playing 38 minutes.
Freshman
Anna Niki Stamolamprou (Thessaloniki, Greece / Aristotelio College of Thessaloniki) tacked on 15 points while knocking down three three-pointers. Senior
Kelly Hartwell (Woodbridge, Va. / Gar-Field) chipped in with 12 points.
In a game that featured 14 lead changes and six ties, it was an 11-0 run over nearly four minutes late in the second half that put the Colonials in control. Holding on to a one-point lead, Stamolamprou fed redshirt junior
Jolie Olingende (Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Arizona Western) for an easy bucket to start the surge. Spanou followed with the next four points just before the she found freshman
Rebeca Navarro (Galicia, Spain / Las Sieges Palmas) for a three-pointer. Spanou then dished to Olingende and RMU found itself comfortably ahead, 71-59, with under four minutes to play.
Saint Francis wouldn't get any closer than eight points as the Colonials drilled four free throws in the final minute to account for their largest lead of the game at 14 points.
The Colonials raced out to a 7-0 lead, but in the first half, it was Saint Francis that had the big run. The Red Flash turned a three-point deficit into to a five-point lead with a 10-2 run. Alexa Hayward scored four points during the surge and the visiting squad rode that wave to a 38-35 lead at the half when Alli Williams hit a short jumper at the buzzer.
Williams finished with a game-high 27 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to record a double-double. She was 9-of-16 from the field. Hayward added 16 points, seven boards and four assists on a 5-of-20 shooting night.
Robert Morris hit 16-of-17 free throws and outrebounded Saint Francis, 47-38. RMU held the Red Flash nearly 30 points under its NEC scoring average of 97.8 points per game.
The Colonials finish out a four-game homestand Monday afternoon when they host the Wagner Seahawks in a 2:00 p.m. game.
Notes: Spanou tied Saint Francis University's Jess Zinoble for the NEC career record of 72 double-doubles … Spanou now has 23 consecutive double-doubles in league games … The Colonials 16-17 (94.1%) performance from the charity stripe is the second best in team history (17-17 at CCSU, 2/22/1999) … Robert Morris is 68-15 (.819) at home against NEC teams since 2004-05.
