LOUDONVILLE, New York – Sophomore guard
Trinasia Kennedy scored 10 of her team-leading 13 points in the second half, freshman forward
Caitlin Weimar corralled a career-high 17 rebounds, and Marist routed Siena 69-44 on Saturday afternoon at the UHY Center.
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The Red Foxes, winners of five straight and eight of their last nine, boost their MAAC record to 11-2, and 13-2 overall. The Saints fall to 2-4 this year, with an identical conference mark.
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Marist never trailed in the game, leading for 37:48 (94.5 percent of the contest). The Red Foxes pulled away with an 18-5 margin in the third quarter to secure their largest margin of victory in a MAAC contest this season.
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Weimar also led the team with four blocks, tied for her season-best. Senior captain
Willow Duffell recorded 10 points and eight rebounds.
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Margo Peterson was Siena's leading scorer with 18 points off 20 shot attempts. The Saints were without their top offensive producer in Isis Young.
- Marist jumped out to an early 12-7 lead in the opening five minutes after Best and Kennedy nailed left-wing three-pointers.
- The largest Red Fox lead came via a Duffell foul line jumper to push the edge to 16-9 with three minutes until the second.
- Marilena Gerostergiou's layup with 19 seconds left in the quarter capped a 7-2 Siena run that made it 18-15 Marist after 10 minutes.
- The Red Foxes opened the second stanza on an extended 12-2 run, featuring two triples from senior captain Allie Best and four points from junior guard Sarah Barcello, that pushed the advantage to 30-17.
- Following a missed three-pointer, Weimar snagged her 11th rebound of the day for an additional possession, and found junior guard Kendall Krick cutting for a layup and foul. The old-fashioned three-point play made it 33-21 Foxes with 1:35 until halftime.
- Siena rattled off five straight points, but Duffell drained a jumper just before the buzzer for a 35-26 lead at halftime.
- That basket ignited a 10-0 burst for the Red Foxes coming out of the break, with Duffell responsible for six points in the spurt, creating a 43-26 lead and forcing a Siena timeout.
- The Saints scored five in a row, but then Kennedy contributed eight out of another 10 consecutive Marist points to balloon the lead to 53-31 after three quarters.
- Siena would get as close as 19 points the rest of the way as Peterson's three stopped the run. The Red Foxes responded to that with six straight points for a 59-34 lead.
- Marist went up as much as 27 late in the contest. A pair of three-pointers from sophomore forward Samantha Bailey and freshman guard Anabel Ellison preceded capped Marist's field goals.
- Marist set season-highs on Saturday in rebounds (49, tied with Canisius on December 11th, 2020), field goal attempts (70), and blocked shots (6).
- The Red Foxes went 25-of-70 from the field and made eight three-pointers. Siena shot just 32.8 percent, including just 26.6 percent after the first quarter.
- The Saints were limited to 4-of-22 shooting from beyond the arc and 2-of-9 from the charity stripe.
- In the first half, Marist had 24 rebounds, 12 on the offensive glass, 14 second-chance points, and 11 points off eight Saints turnovers. The Red Foxes finished with 20 offensive rebounds, 19 points off turnovers, and 18 second-chance points.
- Four different Red Foxes had three assists: Barcello, Best, Duffell, and Weimar. Siena had five assists as a team.
- Weimar and Ellison paced the team with three steals each.
- Weimar was one rebound shy of Marist's single-game rebounding top 10, and four from Stephanie Del Preore's record of 21, set on January 31st, 2004.
- The 17 rebounds from Weimar are tied for the most by a MAAC player this season. Duffell also secured 17 boards against Quinnipiac on January 4th.
- Best has moved into a tie with Corielle Yarde for 10th place on the Red Foxes' all-time assists list with 321. This was also the seventh game with zero turnovers for the senior point guard; Marist has won all seven of those games.
- In her last two games, Kennedy has scored 25 points after halftime. She is averaging 12.2 points per game in her last nine contests.
- Duffell has scored 10 or more points in three straight matchups, and leads the team with 10 such games this year.
- The Red Foxes have won seven in a row against the Saints, and are 38-31 all-time against Siena. Thirteen of those victories have been by at least 20 points.
- Including the postseason, Marist has now won 25 straight games over teams from New York state, a streak that started on February 7th, 2019.
- The two teams close out their series with a Valentine's Day matinee on Sunday, February 14th at 2 p.m.
