BOSTON – Despite coming back and taking the lead in the first, the Suffolk women's basketball team could not hold off the power Hawks of Roger Williams, who are receiving votes in the latest WBCA Coaches Top 25, as the Rams fell in the Commonwealth Coast Conference clash, 68-41, Tuesday night at the Larry E. and Michael S. Smith Court.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 41 | Roger Williams 68
RECORDS: Suffolk (5-3, 1-2 CCC) | Roger Williams (6-2, 3-0 CCC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Rams were kept off the scoreboard for the first 3:27 and in that time Roger Williams took a seven-point cushion.  

Madi Mahoney struck from downtown to spark Suffolk's scoring and Colby Guinta followed suit with back-to-back long balls of her own to flip the script in the blue-and-gold's favor, 9-7, at the 5:16 mark. 

The lead would flip again and the score would even twice, with the last coming at 11 when Kendall Jacques poured in a lay-up. The Hawks controlled the opening quarter the rest of the way with six unanswered points that put the Rams in a 17-11 hole after 10 minutes.   

That gap expanded to 20-plus points, 42-19, at halftime as Roger Williams controlled the second stanza. 

Suffolk managed to hold the Hawks without a field goal for nearly eight minutes of the third stanza. The host however could not find its grove on the offensive end despite its defensive and faced a 52-27 hole as the game headed to the fourth frame.  

Mahoney made the first bucket of the final quarter of regulation, a hoop from behind-the-arc. The Rams could not rally around the senior's second triple of the night though as the distance that RWU built over the second and third only grew and was too much ground to be made up.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Guinta finished with 15 points behind a 5-for-8 showing from the field that included a 4-for-6 showing from 3-point land. She added five rebounds, two helpers and one steal. 
• Mahoney logged 10 points on a 4-for-7 effort from the floor that included a 2-for-3 showing from behind-the-arc. 
• Katie Kirsch recorded a team-best six boards with two takeawyas, one dime and one point on her stat line. 
• Amanda DeAngelis tallied five caroms, three steals, two points and one set-up. 
• Suffolk shot just 32.6 percent (15-46) on the night and hit an impressive 70.0 percent (7-10) from 3-point range. 
• The Rams struggled from the charity stripe with a 33.3 conversation rate at the free throw line. 
• RWU, who shot 42.1 percent on the evening, had a quartet in double figures in Sophia Araneo (15), Caroline Elie (15), Katie Galligan (10) and Sophia Coppola (10). 

NOTEWORTHY

• Guinta stretched her 3-pointer made streak to eight games. She has made a triple in every game in her collegiate career. 
• Guinta set a career-high triples made (4) and matched a personal-best two steals. 
• Mahoney, who made her first Suffolk start, converted a career-high four field goals and tied a personal-best two treys made. 
• Colby Casey matched a career-high four points and made the free throws of her collegiate career. 
• Kendall Jacques tied a career-high two rebounds.  

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WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk concludes its first semester slate at Clark Saturday, Dec. 10 at 1 p.m.