Release courtesy Five Towns College Athletic Communications
Pottersville, NY - The Five Towns College women's basketball team took home the first win of the 2019-20 season and first win under first-year Head Coach Anthony Alfaro with a 62-48 over HVIAC opponent, the Word of Life/Davis Huskies.
Junior guard Ariana Jones, a transfer from Monroe College, led the scoring for the Sound with a game-high 31 points on 50% shooting. (13-26 FG, 1-3 3PT). Jones also went 4-6 from the free-throw line.
As a team, Five Towns shot an impressive 57.8% from the field (26-45). This is the best shooting percentage in a single game since the start of women's basketball at Five Towns College in 2016. The previous best came last season at 47.6% (40-84 FG) in a victory over Vaughn College on December 5th, 2018. Current Sophomore Rasauna Melendez led the scoring in that game with 42 points behind 59% shooting (16-27 FG, 4-12 3PT).
Freshman forward Lanasia Drain contributed 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds, just narrowly missing a double-double in her first game for the Sound. Jada Roberts-Duncan also scored double-digit points with 11 (5-6 FG) and collected six rebounds; Rasauna Melendez contributed six points in the effort. The team scored 22 points in the paint, while the defense totaled six blocks and held the Huskies to just eight points in the paint.
Five Towns got off to a good start and outscored the Huskies 16-11 in the first quarter, but would go into the half trailing by one point at 23-24. Ten points from Jones and a 12-0 scoring run to close out the last four minutes of the third quarter gave Five Towns the lead at 40-34. Most of Jones' points came in the fourth quarter as 15 points from 6-11 shooting would help to secure the win for the Sound.