ST. DAVIDS, Pa.– Eastern University Women's Basketball used a 12-0 run to start the second half and held the visiting Delaware Valley Aggies to 25.4 percent shooting tp claim a 60-50 MAC Freedom win. Amanda Riiff hit five 3-pointers on the wa to a game-high 18 points. 

The Eagles trailed 15-10 after one period but clawed back into the game with a 14-4 run to start the second period. Regie Robinson scored the first six eastern points of the quarter, and Riiff capped the run with back-to-back 3-pointers on feeds from Eastern's interior players. Emily Lavin made the pass for the first one, and Robinson found Riiff for the second one.

"We did a good job moving the ball and getting good shots," Head Coach Eric Houston said after the game. "Riiff gave us a huge lift with the threes in the first half." Riff had 12 points at the half.

The Aggies, meanwhile, were struggling to get any kind of offense inside the 3-point arc. The Eagles blocked six shots in the period. Lavin had three blocks. The Aggies hit only a deep 3-pointer from Ahley Smink in the final seven and a half minutes of the first half. Eastern went up 26-22 on a late basket from Taylor Price on a put back of a Riiff miss. It was the only basket of the first half for Price.

Eastern rode that momentum into the start of the second half. Lavin scored the first four points, and then Price scored four. Price then found Lavin inside and Ashley Kurdziolek capped the run with a 17-footer from the wing. The Aggies rallied to trim the deficit to 44-34 late, but Lavin put back a Price miss at the buzzer to give the Eagles a 12 -point lead with ten minutes to play. 

The Aggies hit a pair of 3-pointers around a Riiff 3-pointer to start the fourth. Delaware Valley hit four long-range attempts in the fourth period, but Riiff hit two and Lavin's inside presence kept the Aggies from scoring a single basket inside the arc. Lavin finished the evening with a season-high eight blocks. She is now two blocks short of the program record held by Heidi Spengler. The Aggies went 2-for-21 inside the arc over the final 27 minutes of the game.

Price made 5-of-7 shots in the second half and finished with 12 points, 9 rebounds, and three assists. Robinson was 8-of-10 from the foul line and finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Lavin had 10 points, nine rebounds, eight blocks, four assists and three steals.

The win lifts the Eagles (13-5, 4-3 MAC Freedom) into the fourth spot in the MAC Freedom standings at the midway point of the season. Eastern will host DeSales at 1 pm on Saturday.