Release courtesy of Yeshiva Athletics

NEW YORK, N.Y.— Playing for the first time in 2014, with its most recent game back on December 18, the Yeshiva women's basketball team lost its first Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) contest of the year, 62-42, to Albany College of Pharmacy (ACP) on Sunday.

The loss drops the Maccabees to 5-7 (0-1 HVIAC) this season, while ACP improved to 12-2 (3-1 HVIAC) this season.

Yeshiva was led by Rebecca Yoshor with a double-double of 15 points and 16 rebounds. She added three blocked shots in the contest as well. Haley David added eight points for the Maccabees and had seven rebounds. Stephanie Greenberg and Naomi Gofine had nine rebounds each for Yeshiva; Gofine added four blocked shots.

ACP was led by Alexa Schooley with 24 points, 14 rebounds and five assists, while Kelsey Johnson had 14 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and four blocked shots.

The game went back and forth through most of the first half, and there were three lead changes in the opening stanza. Yeshiva took an 18-17 lead with 7:32 remaining before failing to score the rest of the half. The visiting Panthers outscored the Maccabees 11-0 over the final seven plus minutes of the first half to go into halftime with a 28-18 lead.

ACP maintained control of the game in the second half and gradually pulled away. The Panthers never led by less than 10 over the final twenty minutes and were in front by as many as twenty-nine points before the game ended.

The intangibles were relatively even as ACP connected on 24 field goals and Yeshiva 19. Neither team made a three point field goal. ACP held a 12-11 edge on points off turnovers and a 19-18 advantage on second chance points. But the Panthers went to the free throw line 22 times compared to six for the Maccabees. ACP was 14-for-22 from the free throw line, while Yeshiva was 4-for-6.

Yeshiva is back in action on Wednesday for a game at St. Joseph's-Brooklyn at 8 p.m. The game will be played at Brooklyn Technical High School.