Roberts Wesleyan’s women’s basketball team held visiting Dowling without a field goal for over 12 minutes spanning the first and second half and Lucy Covley tied her career high with 20 points to help the Redhawks to an 82-54 win in the doubleheader split. The men fell 72-70 despite leading by one point with 34 seconds remaining.
In the women’s contest, Dowling led most of the first half and by as many as 11 points before the Redhawks closed the gap late. A pair of treys by Jenna Johnson started the rally and Brooke Fields hit on three three-pointers for half of her game total of 18 points; the last tied the game with 2:10 remaining in the first half. A Marissa Sell put-back with 70 seconds left in the half gave Roberts the lead for good.
The Redhawks defense allowed Dowling just five points over the first ten minutes of the second half while the offense built a 23 point lead. Hilton’s Carneisha Henry hit on two shots to open the half and Covley hit four three-pointers with a field goal in the Redhawks run.
Roberts dominated the boards with a 51-33 advantage in rebounds with 22 of those on the offensive side.
“Coach definitely got on us at halftime about rebounding and said we all had to crash (the boards) because we had such a height advantage,” Henry said.
Brockport native Marissa Sell finished with 19 rebounds, which tied her for third in school history for rebounds in one game. She now holds four of the top seven rebounding games in Roberts’ history. Her 865 career rebounds with 15 games remaining put her in position to challenge the all-time record of 981 set by Jeanette Glover from 1996-99.
Henry added six boards and all but one player who saw minutes pulled down at least one rebound.
The men’s contest was a see-saw affair that featured 15 lead changes and seven ties.
Marcus Gooding knocked down a career-high seven treys for a career-high 23 points, but Dowling retook the lead at 72-70 with 25 seconds remaining and the Redhawks missed a three-pointer at the buzzer to fall to 6-4.
