Box Score

IMMACULATA, Pa. – Adriana Sciascia scored a career-high 19 points, and Chrissy Esbensen and Sara Smith each added 18 points and nine rebounds, but host Immaculata University could not complete its comeback bid as visiting Gwynedd-Mercy College downed the Mighty Macs, 81-75, in a Colonial States Athletic Conference women's basketball game Monday evening.

Immaculata (6-10, 4-3 CSAC) trailed by 16 with 4:34 to play and whittled that deficit down to four in the final minute. However, Gwynedd-Mercy (10-5, 6-0) held off the charging Mighty Macs to remain unbeaten in league play.

Immaculata jumped back into the contest with a 14-2 spurt over the final four minutes of the game. Sciascia tallied five of her team-high 19 points during that run, and the Mighty Macs went 7-for-10 from the free throw line. Gwynedd-Mercy's only two points during the stretch were two free throws from Jordan Dominic.
 
Immaculata had a chance to draw within a bucket in the final 23 seconds after the Griffins missed a pair of foul shots. However, the Mighty Macs could not convert at their end of the floor, and the Griffins iced the game with two free throws.
 
Jackie Deegler scored three of her seven points during the final run and added an assist.
 
Gwynedd-Mercy held a 12-point advantage at halftime (50-38) and increased that lead to 17 with a 7-2 run to open the second half. Immaculata quickly cut into that lead over the next three minutes to narrow the margin to 10 (59-49) with 14:47 still to play. Smith had four points, and Sciascia converted a 3-point play to spark that mini-run.
 
The Griffins answered with a 14-8 spurt that put the visitors back on top 73-57 with 7:17 left. Esbensen and Gwynedd-Mercy's Natasha Matthews traded a pair of layups over the next three minutes, before the Mighty Macs began their final push with 4:34 remaining.
 
Matthews finished with a game-high 32 points and 12 rebounds. Teammate Shea Wassel scored 19 points and grabbed 11 boards for a double-double as well.
 
Immaculata is off until next Monday when it travels to Neumann for another CSAC contest at 6 p.m.