GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Despite a game-high and career-high 22 points from Olivia Schubiger, the Stevens Institute of Technology women's basketball team's 2024-25 season came to an end Friday night in the first round of the Division III Women's Basketball Championship against No. 10 Getysburg, 64-46.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Ducks came out strong, holding the Bullets scoreless for the first 3:23 while opening a 6-0 lead. Dorothy Loffredo got Stevens (19-9) on the board with a pair of free throws, Lucy Alberici and Leyla Castro each followed with a layup. With the Ducks still up 8-4 past the midway point of the quarter (Schubiger adding a tough stepback for Stevens), the Bullets reeled off eight of 10 to end the quarter on top 12-10.

After scoring the final four points for the Ducks in the first, Schubiger's monster game continued in the second, scoring eight straight for the Ducks (12 straight extending back to the first quarter), keeping them within striking distance, 21-18, past the four-minute mark. Gettysburg (26-2) pushed its lead back to seven, but Castro and Schubiger pulled the Ducks back to within one possession before a late layup put the Bullets up 27-22 at the half.

That five-point cushion grew to 13 in the first three minutes of the third quarter, but five points from Isabella Duval and a three by Castro got the Ducks back to within seven, 39-32. The Bullets quieted any further threat of a Ducks' comeback with 12 straight points, Audrey Kehoe ending the run with a turnaround layup in the closing seconds of the quarter.

Schubiger capped her career night with eight more in the fourth, getting the Ducks as close as 15, but the Bullets closed out the win with seven different players scoring at least six points.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Schubiger set a career-high for the second time in nine days; the junior dropped 19 in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom semifinal win over Arcadia back on February 26. Defensively, she also tied her season and career-high with four steals.
• Kehoe finished with six rebounds, her 15^th time with six or more in her last 20 games after recording just one such game in her first eight outings this year.
• Duval finished with multiple three-pointers for the 11^th time this year after hitting the mark just once across her first two seasons as a Duck in 2022-23 and 2023-24.

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