The # 4 College of Staten Island took a 68-54 victory over the # 5 York College Cardinals in the quarterfinal round of the 2010 CUNYAC / Con Edison Women's Basketball Championships.
The Dolphins will advance to the semi-finals on Wednesday, February 24th at 5:30 pm at the Nat Holman Gym at CCNY against #1 Baruch College. Baruch defeated # 8 Medgar Evers, 66-46, this afternoon.
The Cardinals took off strong with two four point leads with seven minutes expired from the clock. From there, however, the Dolphins took the reigns for the rest of the game. Allowing York to score just 8 points in the last 14 minutes of the half, CSI scored 28 points including 12 from Kristen Panariello and nine from Denise Zajonc, to finish the half up 35-19.
Just a minute into the second half, the Dolphins would take the greatest lead of the game with 19 points behind a Katelyn Hepworth made free throw and Danielle McLaughlin three point goal. At 15:10, the Cardinals began an 11-3 run that would close the gap to 11 points at 9:18. From there the team’s went basket for basket until a 5-0 run by York with four minutes left cut the deficit to ten points. The Cardinals would stop their scoring there and CSI’s Mallory Ameneiros would hit four free throws in the final 1:17 to finish the game up by fourteen.
The Dolphins shot 70.4% from free throw range. CSI outrebounded York 68-54.
Panariello led the Dolphins with 18 points while Ameneiros talled 15 points with 8 assists. Zajonc tallied 13 points and seven rebounds while CUNYAC’s Rookie of the Year Hepworth had 10 points and 12 rebounds.
For the Cardinals, Maimouna Dabo led with 18 points and five assists while Kadisha Wickham led all players with 17 rebounds and tallied 14 points.
Tickets the 2010 CUNYAC/ Con Edison Championship semi-finals are free however you need a ticket to enter. Tickets can be picked up in the CSI Athletic Office in the Sports and Recreation Center.