{"id":279109,"date":"2025-11-12T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279109\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:30:11","slug":"womens-basketball-edged-by-st-bonaventure-68-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279109\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball Edged by St. Bonaventure 68-65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tStory Links&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/michigan_logo_200x200.png\" alt=\"University of Michigan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at University of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>11\/18\/2025 | 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ]&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Nov. 18 (Tue) \/ 7 p.m. &#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/michigan_logo_200x200.png\" alt=\"University of Michigan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0University of Michigan&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/opponent-history\/university-of-michigan\/89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    VESTAL, N.Y. \u2013 Lacey Drake scored a game-high 20 points and added eight rebounds and three assists, leading St. Bonaventure (3-0) to a 68-65 win over Binghamton (2-1) in a non-conference women&#8217;s basketball game on Tuesday evening at Dr. Bai Lee Court at the Events Center. The contest wrapped up Binghamton&#8217;s three-game home stand to launch the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Drake went 7-for-14 from the field, 2-for-3 from beyond the three-point arc and sank all four of her free throws. Her final two points came with six seconds left in regulation and the Bonnies nursing a 66-65 lead. On that play, Drake took a feed from Mackenzie Pettinelli and drove down the lane for a layup. The Bearcats&#8217; were then unable to make a game-tying three pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Junior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/bella-pucci\/16997\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16997\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Pucci<\/a> led Binghamton with 16 points. She was 5-for-10 from the field, 3-for-6 from three-point range and 3-for-4 from the free throw line. Junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kendall-bennett\/16991\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16991\" target=\"_blank\">Kendall Bennett<\/a> added 14 points and a team-best seven rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Binghamton scored the first 12 points of the game in the opening 4:57 of play. Pucci had five of her points during that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The Bonnies, however, reeled off 12 straight points of their own in a span of 2:52 to pull within 22-20 with 6:17 left in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The score was tied at 47-47 through three periods and the fourth quarter featured two ties and three lead changes. With the score tied at 65-65 with 30 seconds left, Aaliyah Parker sank a free throw to give the Bonnies the lead for good. St Bonaventure then got a defensive stop, setting the stage for Drake&#8217;s clinching bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kaia-goode\/16994\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16994\" target=\"_blank\">Kaia Goode<\/a> finished with nine points and dished out a team-best four assists. Junior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/yanniah-boyd\/16992\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16992\" target=\"_blank\">Yanniah Boyd<\/a> had six points and five rebounds while senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/meghan-casey\/16993\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16993\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Casey<\/a> chipped in five points, three assists and a pair of steals.<\/p>\n<p>Brillana Boyd added 15 points in the winning effort.<\/p>\n<p>St. Bonaventure held a commanding 42-31 rebounding advantage, with 15 of its boards coming at the offensive end of the court. The Bonnies also had a 23-17 edge in bench points.<\/p>\n<p>At the free throw line, St. Bonaventure made 13 of its 18 attempts (72 percent) while the Bearcats got to the line only four times &#8211; making three of those shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give St. Bonaventure credit,&#8221; head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/binghamtonbearcats.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/mary-grimes\/993\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"993\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Grimes<\/a> said. &#8220;They came in here and rebounded the ball well. We had to box out and defend better and we needed to get to the free throw line more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Binghamton shot 44.2 percent from the field (27-of-64) and was 8-of-18 (44.4 percent) from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>The Bearcats head to Michigan next Tuesday for a 7 p.m. game.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at University of Michigan 11\/18\/2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}