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Philadelphia, Pa. - The Holy Family University women's basketball held off cross-town rival Philadelphia University by the score of 56-48 in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest Tuesday night at the Gallagher Athletic Center.
 
Holy Family, ranked 13^th in the recent USA Today/ESPN NCAA Division II National Top-25 Coaches' Poll, improves to 7-1 overall and 4-0 in conference play.  The win marked the Tigers seventh straight victory.  Philadelphia is now 4-3 overall and 2-1 in conference action.
 
Senior Kelly Brady (Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City), the CACC Player of the Week, led Holy Family with her fourth double-double of the season as she finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.  She also recorded a game-high five steals.  Junior Mary Ellen McCollum (Abington, Pa./St. Basil Academy) finished with ten points, while fellow classmate Katie Duma (Poestenkill, N.Y./Averill Park) came off the bench and contributed nine points and eight rebounds.  Senior Molly Hanlon (Narberth, Pa./Lower Merion) added eight points and led the team with four assists.
 
For Philadelphia, senior Taylor Peltzer led the team with 15 points and was one rebound shy of a double-double as she grabbed eight boards.  Peltzer also drained a game-high three three-pointers.  Freshman Tori Arnao recorded a double-double with 12 points and ten boards for the Rams.
 
Holy Family trailed by as many as ten points midway through the first half after sophomore Monica Schacker drained a three-pointer to give the home team an 18-8 lead. 
 
From that point, Holy Family went on to erase the ten-point deficit and used a 25-3 run the rest of the half to take control of the game.  The Tigers took advantage of 15 first-half turnovers by Philadelphia and held the Rams without a field goal the final 10:54 of the half.
 
Holy Family's run gave the Tigers a 33-21 led at the half.
 
In the second half, Philadelphia rallied early on and came within three points of the Tigers' lead after a layup by Arnao made the score 38-35 at the 13:04 mark. 
 
However, that would be as close as the Rams would get of the Tigers lead as Holy Family responded with a 12-4 run over the next six-plus minutes to increase its lead back to double digits.  A three-pointer by McCollum capped the run at the 7:31 mark to make the score 50-39.
 
Despite being outscored 9-6 the rest of the way, the Tigers held on for the 56-48 victory. 
 
The Holy Family defense finished the game forcing 23 turnovers and limiting Philadelphia to only 29.2-percent shooting from the field.
 
Holy Family is back in action on Saturday, Dec. 8 as the Tigers host Concordia College in a CACC contest.  Game time is slated for 1 p.m.