FREDONIA, N.Y. -- The
Fredonia women's basketball team dropped hotly contested
SUNYAC game, 64-58, against
Oneonta in Steele Hall on Saturday. The Devils led past the midway point of the fourth quarter, but could not hold on.
Alexis Cheatham (Lockport/Lockport) led the offense with 14 points.
Jenna Einink (Westfield/Chautauqua Lake) scored 13 and grabbed a team-high nine boards.
Kathryn Halloran (Angola/Immaculata) added nine boards, and
Sarah Sweazy (Rochester/Rush Henrietta)Â finished with 11 off the bench.
The Devils trailed by six at the end of the first quarter, 14-8, but quickly tied things up in the second.
Layups by Halloran,
Jamie Curry (Ransomville/Wislon) and
Justice Nauden (Waterport/Albion) made it 14-all. There were five more lead changes and things were knotted up at 28 going into the half.
The second half started slowly, with neither team scoring until
Oneonta's Sara
DePasquale scored at the 6:16 mark.
The teams traded leads three more times in the third. Trailing 34-33,Â
Fredonia edged ahead with three straight
layups -- two byÂ
Alisha Szumigala (Forestville/Forestville) and one by
Sweazy. It would prove to be the Devils largest lead of the game, 39-34.
A layup by
Jacque Law (Machias/Pioneer) closed out the third with the Devils up 42-39.
A see-saw fourth quarter saw five lead changes and two ties. With 4:11 left to play and the Devils
clinging to a one-point lead, 54-53,
DePasquale converted a layup to give the Red Dragons the lead for good.Â
Neither team scored until the 1:41 mark. A pair of three pointers by
Oneonta bookended by a free throw by Cheatham to give the
Dragons a six-point lead, 61-55, heading into the final minute. To that point,
Fredonia was shooting four of 11 from the free throw line.Â
Cheatham was fouled on a three pointer with 35 ticks left, and nailed all three charity attempts to make it a three-point game.
Oneonta closed the game converting on three of four free-throw attempts while the Devils were not able to score.
The win enables
Oneonta (7-3)Â to leapfrog
Fredonia (7-4) in the standings. The Devils stand at 12-5 overall, while
Oneonta moves to 10-7.
Fredonia hits the road Tuesday, taking on Brockport.
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