Dan Levin
Staff Writer

The 4-4 UMBC women’s basketball team traveled to the Reitz Arena for a match up with the 3-5 Loyola Greyhounds. UMBC was leading by five with fewer than five minutes left in the first half, but two big runs by Loyola led the Greyhounds to an 81-74 victory.

Michelle Kurowski led all scorers with her 25 points, while Meghan Colabella, Chelsea Barker, and Katie Brooks also scored double figures. To go along with her 25 points Kurowski added 12 rebounds for her fourth double-double in what has been an incredible start to the season for the sophomore. Senior Carlee Cassidy only recorded one point in the loss, coming off of 1-3 free throw shooting. She was 0-5 from the field.

Loyola was led by Erica Diclemente who put up a career high 19 points and eight rebounds. The Greyhounds shot just over 48% from the field and the 81 points was the most they’ve scored beating UMBC 80-71 on December 21, 2008. Loyola also got 12 points from Miriam McKenzie and Kaitlin Grant nearly posted a double-double with nine points and 12 rebounds. A big part of their scoring was also the 31 points they got from their bench.

With 4:55 left in the first half UMBC had taken a five point lead and looked to be in good shape going to the half. But with all that time left Loyola took advantage and went on a 15-6 run to lead 40-36 at the half. After back and forth action in the second half, the Greyhounds went on a 14-4 run with 12:20 left and from that point never let UMBC come within eight points of the lead. Loyola also made a season high 23 free throws against the Dawgs.

Coming up for UMBC is a trip to West Virginia on Tuesday, December 22nd. They have four straight road games before their next home game for the Retrievers is January 6 at 5 pm against America East Rival Hartford in their conference opener.

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