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Maddie Syka
Seth Carroll
61
Winner Mount Aloysius MAC 2-0,0-0 AMCC
49
Westminster (PA) WES 1-1,0-0 PAC
Winner
Mount Aloysius MAC
2-0,0-0 AMCC
61
Final
49
Westminster (PA) WES
1-1,0-0 PAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Mount Aloysius MAC 14 12 16 19 61
Westminster (PA) WES 15 7 11 16 49

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Titans drop home opener

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.---The Westminster women's basketball team suffered a 61-49 loss to Mount Aloysius in its home opener Monday night at Ron Galbreath Court inside Buzz Ridl Gymnasium. 

Westminster fell to 1-1 overall. Mount Aloysius improved to 2-0. 

Junior Maddie Syka (Darlington, Pa., Lincoln Park) posted her second-straight double-double, finishing with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Senior Grace Cano (Greenville, Pa., Greenville) had nine points and five rebounds. Junior Katie Maryo (Cleveland, Ohio, Magnificat) scored eight points while sophomore Jenna Zuelch (Aurora, Ohio, Aurora) had four points and added six rebounds, including five on the offensive glass. 

Syka made two free throws with two seconds left in the first quarter, moving the Titans from a 14-13 deficit to a 15-14 lead going into the second quarter. Earlier, the Titans recorded six steals as Mount Aloysius committed eight turnovers, and Maryo's three-pointer off an assist from senior Kennedy Arison (Medina, Ohio, Archbishop Hoban) put Westminster ahead 11-10 with 1:41 remaining. Sophomore Avery Maier (Butler, Pa., Butler) added a fast break layup off another Arison assist before Mount Aloysius briefly moved back in front. 

Westminster struggled to generate offense in the second quarter, shooting 2-for-17 from the field and scoring seven points. Syka briefly put Westminster ahead 18-17 with a three-pointer off sophomore Bella Calcamuggio's (Sylvania, Ohio, Notre Dame Academy) assist, but Mount Aloysius answered and held the Titans without another field goal after Syka's layup with just over five minutes to go. Her two free throws with 38 seconds left closed the quarter's scoring, and the Titans went into halftime trailing by four, 26-22.

The Titans' third quarter turned on a nearly seven-minute scoring drought after Cano's layup 20 seconds into the quarter, with Mount Aloysius stretching its lead to 38-24 by the time Cano scored again with just over three minutes remaining. Westminster entered the fourth trailing by 11, 42-33.

The Titans got late three-pointers from Maryo, Maier and freshman Alyssa Flick (Volant, Pa., Wilmington) in the fourth quarter, but Mount Aloysius managed to keep a double-digit lead over the final six-plus minutes. 

Up next:
Westminster will take on Alma at Wooster's Nan Nichols Classic on Friday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. 
 
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