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Lady Hawks Fall to FSU and UPG at Home

Release Date:
January 15, 2005
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January 15, 2005

 

HAMBURG, NY – The Hilbert College women’s basketball team fell to visiting Frostburg State 64-49 and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 73-52 in two Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference games this weekend.

 

After leading 39-34 at the half on Friday night, Frostburg State held the host Hawks to 15 second half points and a chilly 16% from the field en route to remaining undefeated in league play (8-4, 5-0).

 

FSU’s Krystin Hargrove led three different Bobcats in double figures with 17 points. Hilbert’s Kristen Curry (Ransomville, NY/Wilson) led the Hawks (3-7, 1-3) with 20 points and six rebounds in the losing effort.

 

On Saturday afternoon, the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Bobcats (8-5, 5-1)   caused 37 Hilbert College turnovers as 10 different UPG players scored.  The AMCC’s second place team recorded 25 steals on the day and led 41-28 at the half.

 

UPG’s Tiffany Menhorn led four different Bobcats in double figures while HC was paced by Amy Anderson’s (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West) 19 points and nine rebounds.  The Hawks Autumn Lee-Jeffries (Buffalo, NY/Holy Angels) recorded 15 rebounds for the second straight game and chipped in with six blocked shots.

 

Hilbert College (3-8, 1-4) is back in action at home on Tuesday, January 18th at 6:00 PM against the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.  


Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.