Women's Basketball 2/9/08 | ||
William Paterson 86, Stockton 56 | ||
The Stockton women’s basketball team fell to NJAC North leader William Paterson 86-56 on the road. Despite the outcome, senior point guard Lisa Neira (Cresskill/Cresskill) provided the biggest highlight for the Ospreys by scoring her 1,000th career point. Neira finished with a game-high 21 points to bring her career total to 1,001 markers. Jenn Russell (Scotch Plains/SP-Fanwood) scored 17 points and Cehara Wellington (Cherry Hill/CH East) notched a career high with eight points.
Neira achieved the 1,000-point milestone by sinking a free throw with 3:34 remaining in the game. She became the eighth Stockton women’s basketball player to score 1,000 career points. Neira tallied her first 178 points as a freshman at NJIT prior to transferring to Stockton, where the rest have come over the past three seasons.
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