HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The Yale women's basketball team hung with Hofstra well into the third quarter Tuesday night at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex. Neither team led by more than six points until just 2:15 remained in the third, when a free throw gave Hofstra a 54-47 lead. But that point wound up being part of a 13-0 run that effectively put the game out of reach, with the Pride eventually finishing off a 75-61 win. The Bulldogs were led by 17 points from junior guard
Kiley Capstraw.
Neither team led by more than three in the first quarter. The Bulldogs went into the first break up 14-11 after scoring the final six points of the frame. They held Hofstra scoreless for the final 5:05, with the Pride missing six shots in that span – including two blocks by senior guard/forward
Mackenzie Egger and one by Capstraw.
Hofstra (2-1, 0-0 CAA) led by as many as six in the second quarter before Yale went on a 16-9 run to take a one-point lead. That would be the Bulldogs' final lead of the night, however. Hofstra scored the final four points of the second quarter and the first two of the third quarter.
Yale (1-2, 0-0 Ivy League) would eventually tie the game 39-39 on a three-pointer by Capstraw at the 7:15 mark of the third, but a 6-0 Hofstra run started to put some distance between the two teams. The Pride outscored Yale 19-14 in the fourth to finish off the win.
STATISTICAL LEADERS
- Capstraw led Yale in scoring with 17 points. She was one of four Bulldogs in double digits, joined by first-year guard Ke'iara Odume (13 points), senior guard Avery Lee (11) and senior forward Grace Thybulle (10).
- Thybulle led Yale with eight rebounds.
- Lee led Yale with seven assists, the most in a game by a Bulldog this season.
KEY STAT
- After shooting just .333 (5-for-15) in the first quarter, Hofstra shot .550 (22-for-40) the rest of the way and outscored Yale in each of the final three quarters.
NOTES
- Yale had a season-high 19 assists, tied for the most in a game for the Bulldogs in their last 29 games.
- Nineteen of Yale's 23 field goals were assisted.
- Yale had a 19-8 advantage in bench scoring thanks in large part to 13 points from Odume.
- Capstraw had five assists and no turnovers.
- Yale shot a season-best .375 from three-point territory. Capstraw led the way with three three-pointers, while Odume added a pair.
- The game featured two head coaches who played together at the University of Florida. Dalila Eshe, who is in her third season as Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball, was a teammate of Hofstra's Danielle Santos Atkinson, who is in her sixth season as Hofstra's head coach.
WHAT'S NEXT
- Yale hosts Stony Brook Friday at 6:00 p.m.
