Box Score 11/17/24
 
SANBORN, NY – Lackawanna women's basketball couldn't quite keep pace with SUNY Niagara, as the #17 Thunder Wolves took down the Falcons by an 87-46 margin on Sunday afternoon in the SUNY Niagara Tip-Off Classic.
 
The Falcons (3-2) got 24 points from Salote Franklin (Philadelphia, PA), but it was tough sledding right at the outset, as the Thunder Wolves (7-0) used suffocating defense to keep the Falcons off the board for the first 5:40 of the game. Sophia Summa (Dunmore, PA) hit a long two-pointer on the left wing that got the Falcons on the board, making it just a 5-2 deficit for Lackawanna. The deficit expanded to 11-2 with 2:28 to play in the first before the Falcons scored again, this time on a Franklin jumper from just beyond the free-throw line that made it 11-4.
 
Niagara held an 18-7 lead after one, and started expanding the lead in the early parts of the second quarter. Franklin hit a three that cut the Lackawanna deficit to 21-12 a little over three minutes into the quarter, and Ania Crocker (Freeport, NY) scored on an acrobatic lay-up to make it 21-14 with just over six minutes to go in the quarter. The Falcons had it at seven points again when Jayla South (Long Pond, PA) hit a long jumper to cut it to 23-16, and a turnover on the other end from Niagara had the Falcons potentially in business to try to make it a game. Lackawanna missed a three, and back-to-back buckets from the Thunder Wolves pushed their lead back over double-digits. The Falcons would only get as close as nine the rest of the quarter, and Niagara expanded their lead out to 20, hitting a three-pointer as time expired to take a 40-20 lead at halftime.
 
Niagara outscored Lackawanna 27-10 in the third quarter, and 20-16 in the fourth quarter to put distance between itself and the Falcons.
 
Lackawanna will look to regroup when the Falcons begin Region XIX DII play on Tuesday, November 19^th, as Lackawanna travels to Newark, NJ to take on Essex County College. Tip is scheduled for 5:00pm ET inside the Essex County College gymnasium, and the game will be the first of a doubleheader, with the men's teams competing afterwards at 7:00pm ET. Lackawanna won its only meeting with Essex last season, a 106-48 victory at home last December.