BOSTON, Mass. – The Roger Williams University women's basketball team was able to spoil Wentworth's senior day, defeating the Leopards, 74-52, in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action.
 
The Hawks' leading scorer was Katie Galligan (Pembroke, Mass.) who tallied 16 points, with four rebounds, and four assists.  Galligan also had three steals in the tilt. Nikki Rosa (Nahant, Mass.) had a team high five steals on the defensive end, with 13 points and 7 rebounds, while Sophie Araneo (Branford, Conn.) and Sophia Coppola (Madison, Conn.) both scored 12 points to round out double digit scorers for the Hawks.
 
Wentworth was led by Maddy Foster who had 14 points and 10 rebounds for her double-double, and Brianna Carroll and Gabby Amoddio both scored 12 points on the day. Each of the five starters for Wentworth played the full 40 minutes.
 
Kendi Barnard (Bedford, N.H.) scored the first points of the game for Roger Williams, and assisted on the following basket for the Hawks, dishing out the first of her team-high five assists. Coming off a turnover from Wentworth, Araneo drained a three pointer to put the Hawks up five.
 
The Hawks extended their lead to 12 at the end of the first quarter, as Galligan found Barnard on the fastbreak, for a layup.
 
After going into the halftime break leading 40-26, the Hawks came out firing pushing their lead to 19, with 4:38 remaining in the third quarter.  The Leopards' Carroll and Amoddio combined to cut the lead down to 14 before the Hawks combined to extend the lead back out to 18 at the end of the quarter.
 
Roger Williams led by as many as 31 points in the fourth quarter on their way to the win.
 
Roger Williams (20-3, 16-0 CCC) enter the final week of the regular season with a pair of contests in the Campus Rec Center the first of Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 5:30 pm before hosting Nichols for Senior Day on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1 pm.