Charette and Flanders Lead Effort In 76-58 Setback to Trinity

Trinity 76, Worcester State 58

Box Score

Hartford, CT --- Despite a career-high 20 points from sophomore Kaleigh Charette (Fairhaven, MA), Worcester State dropped a 76-58 decision to Trinity on Tuesday evening in non-conference women’s basketball action. Charette scored most of her points as she was a perfect 12-for-12 from the free throw line.

Senior Bri Flanders (Southampton, MA) also tallied a career-best 17 points to help pace the Lancers (4-4) as she connected for 8-for-9 from the field while classmate Reilly O’Keefe (Warren, MA) and freshman Kara Rogers (Lowell, MA) each contributed eight points apiece. Rogers handed out four assists, Charrette swiped four balls and sophomore Molly Hein (Hudson, NH) blocked three of WSC’s four shots.

Trinity (5-2) was paced by Michelle Royals’s (Torrington, CT) 19 points while Kaitlin Ciarleglio (Waterbury, CT) finished with 11 points, four assists and three steals. Tess Donie (Worcester, MA) and Claire Arnstien (Hicksville, NY) also chipped in with nine points as Rebecca Cohn (San Francisco, CA) corralled a game-best seven rebounds.

The Bantams opened with a 10-5 spurt for the games first five minutes and they extended the lead to 24-10 at 11:39. Worcester State would go on an 11-4 run to trail by seven (28-21) with 6:45 left. With Trinity ahead 32-25 at the 5:11 mark, the Bantams would outscore the Lancers by a 16-7 margin to take a 48-32 edge at halftime.

Worcester State opened the second stanza with a 10-4 stretch four minutes into the period to trail by eight (50-42), but that was as close as they would get. The deficit was still nine points (56-47) after an O’Keefe trey at 12:54, but Trinity would soon get into double digits after they outscored WSC 13-5 over the next eight minutes to take a 69-52 edge.

WSC would never threaten again and the Bantams would maintain the cushion for the rest of the contest.

The Bantams held slim margins in rebounding (37-34), on the offensive glass (14-10) and points off turnovers (13-10) while the Lancers held the advantage in second chance

Worcester State held Trinity to shoot 41 percent for the game, but the Bantams made eight of their 19 attempts from downtown. WSC was held to 31 percent inside the arc in the first stanza (6-for-19) and stayed in the game due in large part to going 14-for-16 from the charity stripe.

The Lancers improved to shoot 43 percent from the field and were only outscored 30-26 in the second period.

Both teams will play non-conference opponents on the road on Thursday at 7 PM. Worcester State travels to Wesleyan (CT) while Trinity heads to Rivier.