Box Score DUDLEY, Mass. (Jan. 19) – The Salve Regina University women's basketball team won its third consecutive game Thursday evening in a 53-39 Commonwealth Coast Conference win at Nichols College. The Seahawks improve to 9-6 overall and 6-2 in conference games, while Nichols falls to 3-12 overall and 2-6 in league play.

Junior guard Kristina Lindgren led the Bison with 13 points, while senior forward Chelsea Shaughnessy pulled down a team-best 12 rebounds to go with a game-high five steals.

Senior center Lindsay Shorey scored a game-high 17 points to go with four blocks for the Seahawks while sophomore forward Marissa Pendergast posted a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds. The top shot-blocking team in the league, the Salve Regina combined for eight blocks on the night.

Nichols claimed an early lead, but a pair of free throws from Pendergast gave Salve Regina the lead until a Lindgren jumper put Nichols ahead, 12-11, before the midway point of the opening half. On the next possession Shorey sparked a 15-0 Seahawks run that saw Salve Regina surge ahead by 14 with just over seven minutes left in the frame.

The momentum then drastically shifted as a Lindgren three-pointer as the shot clock expired sent Nichols on an 11-0 run capped by a Carly Turpel three-pointer that brought the Bison within three , 26-23, as the clock wound down. Shorey hit a jumper at the break to give the Seahawks a five-point advantage heading into the locker room.

Salve Regina held Nichols to just four points through the first 11 minutes of the second half, all the while building up a 20-point lead.  Nichols managed to get as close as 14 in the half, but it was truly a defensive battle in the frame as the teams combined for just 41 points in the stanza.

The Bison shot just 21.1% from the floor in the game, but held the Seahawks scoreless from three-point range in the contest and to almost four points below their overall scoring average. Salve Regina parlayed the Bison's 16 turnovers in 17 points and put up 12 second-chance points on 20 offensive rebounds. Nichols came away with eight points off of the Seahawks' 16 turnovers and scored 18 points on 27 offensive boards.

Nichols, which held its fourth conference opponent to fewer than 60 points, continues CCC action on Saturday in a 1 p.m. game at Gordon. Salve Regina hosts Roger Williams Saturday at 1 p.m. in a conference tilt.


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