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Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. / Pope Center – The Robert Morris University women's basketball team and St. Francis Brooklyn went to overtime for the third time in the last four meetings as the Terriers pulled out a 93-82 win in a Northeast Conference game at the Pope Center in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., Monday night. The Colonials maintain their hold on first-place in the NEC falling to 17-10 overall and 13-3 in the league. The Terriers improve to 18-9 and 9-7 in NEC play.
 
Senior forward Artemis Spanou (Rhodes, Greece / Nea Smryni) tallied 37 points to surpass the 2,000 point plateau for her career. She now has 2,007 points and earns her 81^st double-double by pulling down 11 rebounds.
 
Sophomore Kelly Hartwell (Woodbridge, Va. / Gar-Field) and freshman Anna Niki Stamolamprou (Thessaloniki, Greece / Aristotelio College of Thessaloniki) each had 17 points. Stamolamprou was 4-of-6 from downtown while Hartwell converted on all six of her shots from the field and was 5-of-6 from the chalk.
 
Robert Morris started a 14-5 run with a back-door pass by Spanou to Stamolamprou who was fouled an finished off the and-one opportunity. Following an Eilidh Simpson trey, the Colonials scored seven straight with Stamolamprou splashing a trey from the right wing and ended when a fast-break layup by Kelly Hartwell (Woodbridge, Va. / Gar-Field) gave RMU an 18-13 midway through the first half.
 
Two post-moves by Spanou followed by a turnaround jumper from Hartwell gave the visiting Colonials their biggest lead to that point, 27-17, with 4:22 to play. Robert Morris struggled to the buzzer, though, converting just one field goal in the final four minutes allowing the Terriers to cut the lead to five points, 34-29, at halftime.
 
Freshman forward Cassie Oursler (Grand Island, N.Y. / Grand Island) scored the first basket of the second half, but the Terriers answered with a 14-3 run over the next 3:16 to take 43-38 lead. Sarah Benedetti drilled three consecutive three-pointers and tallied 11 points during the run. The Terriers eventually pushed the lead to eight points, 63-55, with 8:48 to play.
 
A 6-0 run, all on points from the charity stripe, pulled the Colonials to within two points with 5:10 showing. After a pair of free throws by Benedetti, Hartwell hit four freebies and Spanou one to put the Colonials on top, 71-70, with 2:12 to go. Another three by Benedetti, her sixth of the second half, put the host squad back on top briefly before Spanou tied the game with a lay-up. An around-the-back lay-in by Benedetti was followed by a Hartwell lay-in off an assist by Spanou with 40 seconds to play and sent the game to an extra session tied at 75-75.
 
The Terriers got red-hot in overtime, going 5-of-6 from the field, 2-3 on treys and 6-6 from the charity stripe. The 18 points in extra session outpaced the two three-pointers by Spanou. Hartwell, with a free throw, was the only other RMU player to score in overtime as the Terriers won, 93-82.
 
Benedetti finished with 28 points and Simpson tacked on 27 for the Terriers. St. Francis shot 61.5 percent (16-26) in the second half and overtime.
 
Robert Morris wraps up a three-game road trip next Saturday, March 1, when they make the trip to Loretto, Pa., for a 3:00 p.m. game against the Saint Francis Red Flash.