PHILADELPHIA – Explorer women's basketball dropped a Sunday afternoon contest to the Virginia Cavaliers 94-73. La Salle will be back in action on Tuesday when they travel to take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.
 
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HOW IT HAPPENED:

• The Explorers started the scoring off early in the contest with a long three-point shot by Molly Masciantonio.
• The Hoos, however, wasted no time in getting themselves into the game as Paris Clark and Kymora Johnson took over. Clark finished the first with eight points.
• La Salle would not go away and kept it close in the second. Tiara Bolden opened the second frame of play with back-to-back offensive possessions with three-pointers, getting the Explorers within five points.
• Johnson would continue to add onto her game total and would end the half with 12 points. The Cavaliers found themselves up 45-33 at the break.
• Makayla Miller performed strong in her second straight game and picked up her play in the second half. The pull-up game of the graduate student guided her in the third quarter.
• By the end of the third the Explorers found themselves down, but Miller finished with 13 points.
• Miller helped the Explorers off the glass in the fourth, she ended the game with seven, leading the team.

 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

• Miller ended the game with 15 points, her second game leading the team in points scored.
• Four Explorers found themselves in double-digit points. Miller, Bolden, Amber Bullard, and Nicole Melious.
• The Explorers shot 39.7% from the field, sinking 10 three-point shots. Bolden and Melious each converted three of those three-pointers.