HOBOKEN, N.J. – Dorothy Loffredo posted a 16-point, 10-rebound double-double, Leyla Castro added 15 with eight rebounds, and Lucy Alberici celebrated Senior Day in style, dropping 14 and grabbing eight boards in a wire-to-wire 81-43 victory for the Stevens Institute of Technology women's basketball team over FDU-Florham Saturday at Canavan Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Stevens (17-8, 11-3 MACF) opened the game on a 7-0 run, Alberici bookending the spurt with a jumper and a three-pointer. FDU notched back-to-back baskets, but did not score again over the final 6:52 of the quarter as the Ducks made an early statement on both ends of the court.

Audrey Kehoe made it 8-4 with a free throw, Schubiger made it 10-4 with a layup, Castro pushed it to 12-4 with a putback, and Dorothy Loffredo made it 14-4, drawing a timeout from the FDU-Florham sideline.

Out of the timeout, a spinning layup from Alberici, a Castro three & fast break layup, and an Isabella Duval three from the left wing put the Ducks up 20, and Schubiger closed the first quarter scoring with a foul line jumper.

FDU-Florham finally stopped the Ducks' run at 21 unanswered points with a jumper early in the second, but Stevens answered the basket with another nine unanswered via a Kehoe layup, Alberici three-pointer, and four points from Duval. With Stevens up 37-6, the teams traded a two-point and three-point basket over the final three minutes, the Ducks carrying a 42-11 lead to the locker room.

Kehoe, Loffredo, and Castro all added a basket apiece early in the third as FDU eventually worked the deficit down to 25, 52-27, but three-pointers from Duval and Katherine Bogutsky, and baskets from Castro and Kehoe helped the Ducks double up the Devils, 64-32, at the end of the quarter.

Stevens held at least a 28-point edge throughout the fourth quarter, with Bogutsky adding six on a pair of three-pointers, Fiona O'Boyle pitching in five, and Alberici/Loffredo combining for six.

Before the game, Alberici, the team's lone senior, was honored for her accomplishments and contributions to the program over the last four years.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• The victory made it five straight for the Ducks, matching their longest winning streak of the season.
• The 38-point win was Stevens' largest of the year, and the fourth straight season the team's biggest margin of victory came against the Devils.
• Loffredo's double-double was her first of the season, after recording three in 2023-24.
• Alberici reached double figures for the 13^th time in 14 conference games and made multiple three-pointers in a game for just the third time this season.
• For the 11^th consecutive game, Castro reached double figures, while her eight rebounds tied for her second-highest total in a game this season.
• Duval finished with 10 points, her first game in double figures in her last 12 outings.

UP NEXT
The Ducks are the No. 3 seed in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom Tournament and will head to Glenside, Pa. for a semifinal with No. 2 Arcadia Wednesday, February 26 at 7 p.m.

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