Box Score

Daemen (10-2) 27-37—64
Marietta (3-1) 36-15—51

MARIETTA, Ohio – Tournament Most Valuable Player Samantha Stanfield (Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison) totaled 12 points and six steals to lead the Daemen College women's basketball team to a 64-51 victory over Marietta College here today in second-round action of the 28th annual Jim Meagle Turkey Shoot.
 
Daemen, which is ranked third in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Division I poll, improved to 10-2. Marietta suffered its first loss of the year and dropped to 3-1.
 
Senior Monica Kosior (Grimsby, Ont./Canisius College) scored a team-high 14 points for Daemen and was named to the all-tournament team. Junior Lindsay Stoddard (Limestone, N.Y./Allegany-Limestone) added 13 points and five assists, while senior Ellie Allen (Amherst, N.Y./Sweet Home) chipped in 10 points and four assists. Senior Chelsea Andorka (Canton, Ohio/Notre Dame College) was limited to seven points and saw her season-opening streak of consecutive games with double-digit points end at 11 games.
 
Sophomore Sierra Sigman (Chillicothe, Ohio) led Marietta with 13 points and was named to the all-tournament team.
 
A tightly played first 14 minutes of the game featured three ties and eight lead changes, and neither team led by more than four points. Daemen held a 23-22 lead with just under six minutes left before halftime when a three-pointer by senior Krissy Rowe (Toledo, Ohio) sparked the Pioneers on a 10-0 run. A jumper by Sigman with 2:44 left before the break capped the spurt and gave the hosts a 32-23 lead. Marietta took a 36-27 lead into the break.
 
Daemen stormed out of the locker room, connecting on six of its first 10 shots during a 14-0 run over the first six minutes of the second half. A conventional three-point play by Stoddard with 13:55 left capped the run and gave Daemen a 41-36 lead. Marietta, which shot 54-percent (14-26) from the field in the first half, missed its first 10 shots of the second half.
 
Daemen later took a 49-41 lead following a layup by junior Jillian Fitzner (Hamburg, N.Y./Immaculata Academy) with 11:11 to play, but the Wildcats made just one field goal over the next six minutes which allowed Marietta to get back into the game. A jumper by Sigman with 4:47 cut the lead to three points, 52-49, before Daemen responded with eight-straight points and opened up an 11-point lead, 60-49, when a Stoddard steal led to a layup by Allen with 2:50 left. Neither team would score until the 55 second mark when Kosior scored off a feed from Stoddard.
 
The Wildcats shot 55-percent (15-27) in the second half and finished 43-percent (26-60) from the field overall. Marietta shot just 22-percent (6-27) from the field in the second half and was 0-for-7 from behind the arc over the final 20 minutes. Daemen posted a 32-18 edge in points in the paint.
 
Daemen returns to action a week from today (Dec. 2) when it hosts the University of Maine-Fort Kent. Game time is 2 p.m.