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ALFRED, NY – The Alfred University women's basketball team hosted The Sage Colleges for senior day Saturday evening in the Terry S. Galanis Family Arena. The Saxons (6-15, 2-10 Empire 8) fell to the Gators by a score of 56-71.
 
Jaime Wilcox (Forestville, NY/ Pine Valley) led the Saxons with 18 points and close behind her teammate Lyndsey McCoy (Middleburgh, NY/ Middleburgh Central) had 15. Bri Hicks (Burlington, VT/ Ithaca) and Wilcox both led the team with 7 rebounds each. Lone senior Katlyn Boland (New York, NY/ A. Phillip Randolph) led the assists category with 4. The Gators were led by Emily Parslow with 25 points in 37 minutes.
 
The first quarter was a back-and-forth affair with the Saxons holding onto the lead at the close, 23-19. The Saxons opened the scoring with back-to-back three-pointers to snag the early lead before Sage closed the game midway through the stanza, 11-11. However, the Saxons surged again, grabbing the lead once again. Emily Parslow led The Sage Colleges with 25 points.
 
AU ran into the second quarter in full stride with a layup by Wilcox. Junior Samantha Pierre-Louis (Wheatley Heights, NY/ Half Hollow Hills West) hit a jumper to put the Saxons up by nine with 6:22 still left on the clock. However, he Gators came back within three at the end of the half. AU took a 33-30 lead into the locker room.
 
The Saxons maintained their lead until midway through the third quarter when the Gators stormed back from a five-point deficit to knot the game up at 42, all. Wilcox and Pierre-Louis grabbed the lead again before Parslow tied the game up at the close of the quarter.
 
In the fourth quarter the Gators took the lead only a minute in and never looked back, taking a 15-point lead for the win, 71-56.
 
"We came out, started fast, hit shots, played with a rhythm on the offensive end, rebounding on the defensive end and then, as the second quarter started, we kind of got away from that and we didn't execute the way that we wanted to," Assistant Coach Carson George said. "Then it was similar in the third quarter as we got out and shot and we executed but then we just didn't make the plays down the stretch."
 
The Saxons remain at home on Tuesday when they host the Elmira Soaring Eagles in the Terry S. Galanis Family Arena at 5:30PM.