PHILADELPHIA – The Holy Family University women's basketball team pulled away from Bloomsburg with an 11-0 run midway through the fourth quarter and eventually held off the Huskies, 73-65, on Wednesday evening at the Campus Center. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Carly Bolivar (Elmont, N.Y./Sewanhaka (Alliance)) led all players with season-highs of 23 points on 7-of-12 shooting, 10 rebounds and four steals, while also pacing HFU with a season-best six assists
• Taylor Hinkle (Chalfont, Pa./Central Bucks South) recorded a double-double as well, her second in the last three games, with 13 points and 10 boards
• Skyler Searfoss (Jim Thorpe, Pa./Jim Thorpe Area) made it three Tigers in double-figures with 13 points, including making 7-of-8 free throws
• Ava Morrow (Morgantown, Pa./Twin Valley) and Carolyn Prevost (Belle Mead, N.J./Montgomery) added eight points apiece, to go along with seven and six rebounds, respectively

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family dominated both the boards and the foul line, outrebounding BU 48-32 and making 25 free throws to the Huskies' seven
• Bolivar helped HFU's bench outscore Bloomsburg's 29-13, and the Tigers held a 42-28 edge in points in the paint

 
How it Happened
First Quarter

• Trailing 7-6, the Huskies scored eight in a row to begin an 2-11 flurry that ended with a 3-pointer for their largest advantage, 9-17, with 1:31 left in the first
• Holy Family made the last two baskets of the quarter though, with Kara Meredith's (Huntingdon Valley, Pa./Archbishop Wood) layup cutting the deficit to 13-17

Second Quarter

• Bloomsburg's lead reached eight once more, 15-23, 1:49 into the second
• The Tigers chipped away to within two, 21-23, on a Morrow layup with 5:44 showing, only to have the Huskies respond with back-to-back jumpers
• The advantage was still six, 23-29, two and a half minutes ahead of the break, but two three-point plays by Bolivar, including one with 19 seconds to go, helped HFU knot the score up at 31

Third Quarter

• The first seven and a half minutes of the third were played within a single possession until two Bolivar foul shots made the score 44-40 with 2:28 on the clock
• The lead then reached five, 49-44, when Searfoss closed out the period with a driving layup

Fourth Quarter

• Bloomsburg got as close as close as one, 50-51, 1:23 into the fourth, but a Bolivar layup and then Morrow 3-pointer 41 seconds later made it a two-possession game for good
• The advantage stretched to as large as 13, 65-52, when a Bolivar foul shot capped an 11-0 run with just 3:45 to play
• The Huskies tallied the next nine points to make it a four-point deficit with 1:18 left, but the Tigers made 8-of-10 free throws over the final 59 seconds

 
Up Next
Holy Family closes out its four-game home-stand hosting Millersville this Sunday at 1 p.m.