HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College women's basketball team (13-5) notched a non-conference victory on Monday evening inside Gooding Arena, outlasting visiting Immaculata (10-5) by a final score of 52-37. The Fords were paced by a pair of 10-point nights as Kayla Robinson and Ally Landau each reached the plateau. Robinson notched her second consecutive double-double, pulling down 11 rebounds and adding a pair of blocks to a stuffed ledger. The Fords held the Mighty Macs to a season-low 14.3 percent from the field (7-49) in the contest.
Haverford began the game on a 11-0 run, prompting a timeout from the Mighty Macs with 5:22 left in the first. With both sides struggling to find consistency from the field in the early goings, it was the hosts who still had the sustained upper hand, holding the visitors without a field goal in the first eight plus minutes of action with a stifling defensive performance as the lead grew to 15-2. Morgan Falcone connected from beyond the arc for Immaculata, ending the Haverford run with the visitors' first points from the field with 1:54 showing on the first quarter clock. Offensively, the Fords got solid looks from Gia Flamini and Cortlyn Morris in the opening stanza, with the former connecting on a trey in the big opening spurt while Morris drove to the bucket, dispatching the visiting defenders with ease as the lead grew.
With an 18-5 lead in hand, the Fords were not content to put on the brakes going into the intermission, continuing a solid performance on both sides of the floor as the second quarter began with another 8-2 spurt highlighted by contributions from Fiona Flynn and Summer Ryan off the bench. A three-point play from Caroline Andersen gave the Fords a resounding 28-8 cushion with 3:06 to go, before Falcone again drained a three to stop the run. The Fords held the 28-11 edge going into the halftime break, limiting the visitors to just three field goals in the first half.
The lead hit 23 with 8:25 left in the third following a Landau bucket, and Immaculata would struggle to whittle the lead to a manageable margin from that point forward. The Fords were able to work in a grouping of younger players with Zoe Carlson, Abigail Clark and Michela Jones seeing extended action as the lead hovered around 20 for the remainder of the contest before the visitors closed on an 8-2 run. Falcone paced the Mighty Macs with 11 points, the only scorer in double figures for Immaculata. Women's Basketball improves to 11-6 all-time against the Mighty Macs, including wins in each of the last nine meetings dating back to the 2011 season.
The Fords now return to conference play for the all-important stretch run, wrapping up the week with a pair of home matchups against Centennial foes. The first of those two meetings will come on Thursday against Washington College (8 p.m.) in the second game of a doubleheader as the men's basketball team will precede the contest with a 6 p.m. tipoff against Washington. Haverford then faces McDaniel on Saturday (1 p.m.), on what will serve as Senior Day for the program. The Fords will honor Caroline Andersen, Lauren Howard, and Fiona Flynn prior to the matinee tip-off.
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