Women’s Basketball Finish Regular Season 13-3

Windsor, ON – The St. Clair College Women's Basketball team finished their OCAA West Division regular season alone in 2^nd Place with a 13-3 record after a pair of road wins this weekend.  The Saints defeated Conestoga College (Kitchener) Friday night by a score of 75-52 and followed it up with a 77-61 victory over Redeemer University (Ancaster) Saturday afternoon.  St. Clair will host an OCAA Crossover Playoff game versus the East Division's 7^th seed on Saturday at the SportsPlex which will tip at 5:00pm.  Official release of their opponent will come on Monday.    

In the Conestoga win on Friday the Saints started well building a 21-11 lead after the first quarter and never looked back amassing a 31-point lead in the late stages of the fourth quarter.  St. Clair scored 20 points off 19 Condor turnovers and won the rebound war 58-47 while converting 11 triples in the contest. 

Shae-lyn Murphy (Windsor, ON/Holy Names) had her best output of the season for the Saints scoring a game high 31 points and filled the stat sheet with 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals.  Kaitlyn Overeem (Brantford, ON) had an impressive night also registering a double-double that included 26 points and 14 rebounds to go with 6 assists and 2 steals for St. Clair. 

On Saturday the Saints had one of their best shooting performances of the season making over 40% of their attempts which was enough to carry them to the win.  A 17-14 advantage after the first quarter grew to 41-30 by halftime and St. Clair bumped that up to a 19-point gap down the stretch. 

Murphy led four Saints in double figures with 19 points adding 7 rebounds followed by Ania Buklarewicz (Mississauga, ON) who notched 18 points as both players hit four triples.  Ava Willoughby (Tecumseh, ON/St. Anne) had a season high 17 points as Kaitlyn Overeem chipped in with 13 points and a team high 8 assists.