Omaha, Neb. — Down 56-36 at halftime, Creighton Women’s Basketball closed within five points in the closing minute before dropping an 88-79 decision to Seton Hall on Monday, December 22.<\/p>\n
The loss evened Creighton’s record at 6-6 on the season and 2-1 in BIG EAST action, while Seton Hall climbed to 8-4 overall and 2-1 in conference contests.<\/p>\n
Things started off well for the Bluejays as Creighton opened the game with seven straight points on a trey from Allison Heathcock<\/a> as well as buckets from Elizabeth Gentry<\/a> and Ava Zediker<\/a>. Seton Hall, however, took control with a 20-0 run over the next four minutes. Mariana Valenzuela led the charge with 12 of her 23 points. The Pirates closed the quarter shooting better than 70% from the field (12-of-17) to take a 30-20 edge after 10 minutes<\/p>\n The Pirates continued to sizzle in the second stanza, pushing their lead to as much as 20 at 45-25 (5:03) and again at 50-30 (3:30). Bluejay freshman Neleigh Gessert<\/a>\u00a0started to heat up, hitting consecutive shots from long range to help Creighton close within 14 at 50-36 (2:34), but Seton Hall scored the final six of the half.<\/p>\n A back-and-forth third quarter saw Creighton pull within 12 at 69-57 (1:21), but Seton Hall responded by pushing back out to a 20-point edge at 80-60 with 5:23 left in the contest. Down 84-66 with just over three minutes left, Creighton rattled off 13 straight points to close the game to 84-79 (0:42). Ultimately, however, there wasn’t quite enough time to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n Zediker\u00a0led Creighton with 25 points, while Kennedy Townsend<\/a> had 14 and Neleigh Gessert<\/a> delivered 11 points. Zediker\u00a0closed the game with six rebounds and eight assists, the first Bluejay with at least 25 points, six rebounds and eight assists in a game since at least 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n Seton Hall got 23 points from Valenzuela, a career-high 21 points from Shailyn Pinkney, 18 points from Jada Eads\u00a0and 14 points from Jordana Codio.<\/p>\n The Bluejays will take a few days off for the holidays, then begin a two-game road trip at Georgetown on December 28 and at Villanova on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omaha, Neb. — Down 56-36 at halftime, Creighton Women’s Basketball closed within five points in the closing minute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-199393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}