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Women’s Basketball Stretches Win Streak to Seven With 98-51 Victory over Post University

Carr Moves into 2nd Place on All-Time Scoring List

Waterbury, Conn. - Senior Catherine Carr (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) continues to climb the program's all-time scoring list as the Holy Family University women's basketball team defeated Post University, 98-51, in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) road contest in Waterbury, Conn., Saturday afternoon.

Holy Family, ranked 18th in the recent USA Today/ESPN Division II National Top-25 Coaches' Poll and second in the NCAA Division II East Region Poll, improves to 17-3 overall and 14-1 in the CACC after winning its seventh straight game. Post is now 7-14 overall and 5-9 in the CACC.

Carr entered today's game needing only three points to move into second place on the all-time scoring list with Kim Burski who scored 1,821 career points (1995-1999). With a pair of free throws late in the first half, Carr tied and then surpassed Burski. Carr finished the game with 19 points and now has 1,837 career points. She is less than 100 points away from the program record – 91 to be exact. Debbie Schopfer is the program's all-time leading scorer with 1,928 career points. Schopfer played from 1987-1991.

Sophomore Erin Mann (West Chester, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) (West Chester, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) scored a game-high 20 points to lead Holy Family. Mann shot 7-of-10 from the field and also recorded six rebounds and four blocked shots. Graduate student Samantha Thompson (Southampton, Pa./St. Basils) (Southampton, Pa./St. Basil's) tallied 11 points, while junior Lauren Peters (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West) (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West) and freshman Mary Ellen McCollum (Abington, Pa./St. Basil Academy) (Abington, Pa./St. Basil's) each contributed ten points. Peters also dished out five assists.

For Post, freshman Raven Wright-James scored a team-high ten points to lead the Eagles' offense. Fellow classmate Jessica Webber chipped in eight points off the bench along with junior Kelli Reynolds who also scored eight points.

Holy Family jumped out to a quick start as the Tigers compiled a double-digit lead within the first five minutes of action. Senior Meghan Gibson (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) drained the team's first of many three-pointers of the afternoon to give Holy Family a 14-4 lead at the 15:58 mark. Gibson finished with nine points.

Holy Family swelled its lead to as high as 27 points in the first half after Peters scored a layup to make the score 48-21 in favor of the Tigers with 1:07 to play in the half. Holy Family closed the half with a 50-24 lead, while limiting Post to only six field goals in the half.

In the second half, Holy Family continued its sharp shooting as the Tigers drained 6-of-8 from beyond the arc. Carr was responsible for four of the six three-pointers as she shot 4-of-4 during the second half from three. As a team, Holy Family shot 10-of-17 from three-point land and shot 57.6-percent from the field for the entire game.

The Holy Family defense limited Post to only 16 total field goals and 24.2-percent shooting from the field. The Tigers also held the advantage on the boards with 51 rebounds compared to 32 by Post.

Holy Family returns to action on Thursday, Feb. 17 as the Tigers travel to Wilmington University to face the Wildcats in a CACC contest. Game time is slated for 6 p.m.

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