Box Score Mahwah, NJ:  The Ramapo College women's basketball team, behind 16 points from senior Faith Flannery, earned a 58-52 victory tonight over the Ospreys of Richard Stockton College. With the loss, the Ospreys fall to 11-12 overall and 6-9 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. 

Flannery shot 7-15 from the field and pulled down eight rebounds, leading her team to their 17th win of the year, improving to 17-7 overall and 10-5 in the conference.  The Roadrunners shot a combined 22-59 (37%).  Junior Micaela Moore hit 4-12 from the field and 8-10 from the charity stripe, netting 16 points of her own, while she grabbed a team high nine rebounds.

Ramapo jumped out to a 5-0 lead after Flannery opened the game with a layup and a free throw, split by two free throws from sophomore guard Kerrie Kosakowski.  The Ospreys finally got on the board when Kelsey Brown nailed a jump shot with 16:21 on the clock.  Just under three minutes later, Brown gave the Ospreys the lead hitting another two-point goal to go ahead 10-9, before Flannery answered with a jump shot of her own to take a one-point, 11-10 advantage.  Consecutive baskets from Brown, at 11:53 and 11:16, would put the Ospreys ahead, 14-11.  With six minutes flat to play, Moore sank her third straight free throw to put the Roadrunners ahead, 22-18, but a mini 5-0 run from the Ospreys, sparked by a jump shot from Brown, would put the Ospreys ahead, 23-22 with just over one minute to play.  The Roadrunners closed out the half with a jump shot from Flannery and a buzzer beating three-pointer from Kelly Haspel, to head into the locker room with a 27-23 lead, shooting a combined 10-27 (37%) from the field.  Flannery led the team with ten points and Haspel collected seven, while dishing out a team-high three assists.  Stockton hit a combined 9-32 (28%), behind 11 points from Brown.  Brown hit 5-7 from the field in the first half of play.

Under four minutes into the second half of play, Moore gave Ramapo a double-digit, 33-23, lead with a jump shot, and they extended that lead three minutes later to 13, when Alex Milne hit a jumper with 13:30 to play.  With 11:15 on the clock, Sara Farrell sparked a 6-0 Stockton run, to come within seven, 33-40, but Ramapo climbed back to a double-digit advantage, with 7:36 to go, with free throws from Moore.  Over the next four plus minutes, the two teams traded baskets, before a three-point goal from Alex Nardoza at 2:43, sparked a 7-0 Osprey run to put Stockton within four points, 50-54, with 1:32 to play.  That would be the closest the Ospreys would come as the Roadrunners outscored Stockton, 4-2 down the stretch for the six-point, 58-52 win.  Moore led the Roadrunners in the second half with 11 points and Milne netted eight, while the team shot a combined 12-32 (38%).  Stockton went 10-29 (35%) in the half behind eight points each from Farrell and Che'Na Thompson.

Brown finished the night leading the Ospreys with 15 points and 13 rebounds for a double-double, while Thompson sunk 14 in the loss.  Farrell chipped in a team leading five assists while Thompson and Ta'Yon Morgan-James each grabbed three steals.

The Roadrunners play their final regular season game on Wednesday, February 13th when they travel to William Paterson for a 6pm tip-off.