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Women’s basketball loses to Albany, seeded No. 4 for AE tournament

The Seawolves will take on New Hampshire Friday at 8 p.m. Photo by Nina Lin.
The Seawolves will take on New Hampshire Friday at 8 p.m. Photo by Nina Lin.

Despite having a game-high 19 points, Chikilra Goodman and the Seawolves fell to Albany 60-49 on Saturday.

Sabre Proctor had 14 points of her own as the Seawolves finished the regular season at 14-15, 6-10 in the America East.

They will be the number four seed in next weekend’s America East tournament.

Ebone Henry led the way for Albany with 15 points, as she and Goodman earned America East Player of the Game honors.

Stony Brook trailed by 15 in the first half, but was able to close within four, before falling in the end.

They opened the second half on an 8-0 run.

Albany quickly went back up nine, as Megan Craig made a layup and Henry hit a three-pointer just 15 seconds later.

The Great Danes were able to hold on, and win their 16th game in a row.

They finished the season with a perfect 16-0 record.

Stony Brook outscored Albany 26-25 in the second half, but were down 35-23 at half.

Gatling and Snow had four rebounds each for the Seawolves.

There is a four-way tie between New Hampshire, Stony Brook, UMBC and Vermont after a win by UNH and losses by Stony Brook, UMBC and Vermont.
UMBC holds the initial tiebreak with a 4-2 record against the other three squads and will be the No. 3 seed. Stony Brook possesses head-to-head tiebreaks with Vermont and New Hampshire and will be a No. 4 seed and play No. 5 UNH, who owns the head-to-head advantage over Vermont, the sixth seed.

Stony Brook was picked to finished 9th in the America East pre-season poll.

Albany is the seventh women’s basketball team to finish undefeated in regular season conference play.

#4 Stony Brook (14-15, 6-10 AE) will play #5 New Hampshire (11-17, 6-10AE) Friday at 8 p.m.

#1 Albany (25-3, 16-0AE) will play #8 Maine (4-24, 3-12AE) at 6 p.m. on Friday.

#2 Hartford (19-10, 10-6AE) will take on #7 Binghamton  (6-23, 5-11AE) Friday at 12:00 p.m.

#3 UMBC (10-19, 6-10AE) will play #6 Vermont (9-20, 6-10AE) at 2:00 p.m. on Friday.

All games will televised on ESPN 3.

The Semifinals will be Sunday, and the title game will be the following Saturday at the home of the highest seed.

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