BOSTON -- Sophomore guard Camryn Collins scored a career-high 21 points on 7-of-9 shooting as the Northeastern women's basketball (7-16, 3-10 CAA) team earned a 73-60 victory over the Stony Brook Seawolves (14-11, 9-3 CAA) on Sunday afternoon at the Cabot Center, snapping the second-place Seawolves' three-game winning streak.
The Huskies had three players score in double figures, led by Collins, who also added three assists and a steal. Justice Tramble chipped in with 15 points and seven rebounds while Yirsy Quéliz tacked on 12 points and a game-high four assists.
Northeastern shot a season-best 58.5 percent from the field, including 66.7 percent from three-point range on 8-of-12 shooting from beyond the arc. The Huskies also knocked down 17-of-22 free throws (77.3 percent) and forced 19 Stony Brook turnovers, converting them into 22 points on the offensive end. The 73 points are the most the Seawolves have allowed in a CAA game this season.
Collins's 21 points surpassed her previous career-high of 19, which she had reached twice this season — against Sacred Heart on November 22 and against Monmouth on January 11. The Foxboro, Massachusetts native was 7-of-9 from the field, 2-of-3 from three-point range and a perfect 5-of-5 from the free-throw line.
Northeastern started strong, with Tramble scoring the game's first basket on a layup 19 seconds into the contest. The first quarter featured six lead changes before Nariyah Simmons drilled a three-pointer with 31 seconds remaining to give the Huskies an 18-13 lead heading into the second. Northeastern shot 80 percent from beyond the arc in the opening quarter, connecting on four of its five attempts.
Stony Brook's Janay Brantley cut the lead to two with a three-pointer early in the second quarter, but Northeastern responded with a 9-0 run, punctuated by Tramble's three-pointer, to build a 33-25 advantage with 1:07 remaining in the half. Tramble's driving layup with 25 seconds left pushed the halftime lead to 35-26. The Huskies shot 66.7 percent from the field in the second quarter while holding the Seawolves to 31.3 percent.
Collins took over in the third quarter, scoring eight points including a putback tip-in layup and a three-pointer that pushed the lead to 11. Stony Brook made a push behind Brantley and Diaka Berete, cutting the deficit to six at one point, but Tramble's tip-in layup restored an eight-point cushion. Beatriz Pérez Pulgar capped the quarter with a buzzer-beating three-pointer to send Northeastern into the fourth with a 56-44 advantage.
Northeastern built its largest lead of the game at 14 points on a Collins three-pointer with 6:37 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Huskies leaned on the free-throw line in the final period, going 10-of-14 from the charity stripe. Quéliz scored 10 of her 12 points in the second half, including a pair of free throws that gave the Huskies a 72-60 lead with 1:15 remaining to seal the victory.
Stony Brook was led by Brantley, who scored a game-high 26 points on 10-of-19 shooting, and Berete, who added 19 points on 5-of-11 from three-point range.
The Huskies will hit the road for a pair of conference matchups next weekend, traveling to North Carolina A&T on Friday, February 20 at 7 p.m. and to Elon on Sunday, February 22 at 1 p.m.
