Hoboken, N.J. – The Stevens Institute of Technology women's basketball team kicked off 2025 with a near wire-to-wire 79-67 victory over St. Joseph's – Brooklyn Friday afternoon at Canavan Arena.
Lucy Alberici finished with a team-high 18 points, one of four Ducks in double figures.
Katherine Bogutsky dropped a career-high 14 points,
Olivia Schubiger added a season-high 13, and
Dorothy Loffredo fell two rebounds shy of a double-double, finishing the day with 15 points and eight rebounds.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Loffredo had the game's first four and six of the first game's first 10 points as the Ducks built an 8-2 lead less than two and a half minutes in. After
Audrey Kehoe sandwiched a layup between a pair of Bears' baskets, Bogutsky knocked down a three, then fed Schubiger on a long outlet pass for an uncontested layup, pushing the Ducks' lead to nine, 15-6. Following seven straight from the Bears that sliced the Stevens (5-5) lead to two, Bogutsky knocked down two more from beyond the arc, keeping the Ducks in front by five, 21-16, at the end of the quarter.
After hitting just one of eight from three-point range in the first quarter, St. Joseph's hit two of its first three in the second, taking its first lead of the game, 22-21, but a Schubiger-to-Zoe-Kashner layup and back-to-back baskets from Schubiger shot Stevens back in front, 27-22. The Bears cut the lead back to two with their third three of the period, but two Loffredo FTs and six straight from Alberici (in just 45 seconds) gave the Ducks their first double-digit lead of the game, 35-25. Duval and Bogutsky answered a Bears' three with layups in the final 90 seconds, sending the Ducks to the locker room with a 39-28 lead.
The Bears worked the deficit down to five, 41-36, less than three minutes into the third quarter, but Alberici answered with five straight, doubling the Ducks' cushion back to 10. St. Joseph's (2-9) worked the deficit back to five again, 49-44, with 3:38 left in the quarter, but Kashner, Loffredo, and Alberici outscored the Bears 13-4 over the proceeding 2:43, putting the Ducks up 62-48, eventually carrying a 64-51 lead to the fourth quarter.
The Ducks remained comfortably in front throughout the final 10 minutes, maintaining a double-digit lead throughout, with seven different Ducks combining for 15 points, including the first collegiate points for first-year
Sugar Williams in her collegiate debut.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Bogutsky knocked down four of her eight attempts from beyond the arc after entering the game 1-for-13 for the season.
- The Ducks shot a season-best 43 percent from the floor.
- Leyla Castro had a game-high 10 assists, nearly matching the team total for St. Joseph's – Brooklyn (12). As a team, the Ducks finished with a season-high 23.
UP NEXT
The Ducks face Garden State foe Ramapo tomorrow at 1 pm in Mahwah.
