(C)2024 GamedayPhotosNYC
66
Winner John Jay JJC 11-14, 9-5 CUNY
63
Medgar Evers Cougars MEDGAR 3-17, 3-11 CUNY
Winner
John Jay JJC
11-14, 9-5 CUNY
66
Final
63
Medgar Evers Cougars MEDGAR
3-17, 3-11 CUNY
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
John Jay JJC 14 15 23 14 66
Medgar Evers Cougars MEDGAR 22 13 10 18 63

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | John Jay Sports Information

Women's Basketball Holds Off Medgar Evers, 66-63, In Regular-Season Finale; Will Host CUNYAC First Round Game Saturday

Brooklyn, NY - On the final day of the 2024-25 regular season, the John Jay women's basketball team withstood a double-digit first-quarter deficit to hold off the Medgar Evers Cougars, 66-63, on Tuesday evening.  

John Jay, who started 2-10, has now won four straight and concludes with an 11-14 overall record and a 9-5 mark in CUNYAC. The Bloodhounds will be the No. 4 seed in the upcoming postseason and host the No. 5 seed, Lehman, at The Doghouse on Saturday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m. 

The Cougars finish the year 3-17 overall and 3-11 in league play. They will be the No. 6 seed in the upcoming postseason and travel to No. 3 seed Brooklyn on Saturday.

Senior guard Ashley Zeolla netted a game-high 21 points to go along with nine rebounds, two assists, and a steal in 36 minutes. 

Sophomore forward Michaela Lattimore notched her 11th double-double of the season, finishing with 18 points on 9 of 14 shooting while pulling down 14 rebounds. Briana Minick added eight points and five rebounds while Essence Richardson added seven points. Hadja Bah helped on the boards, finishing with seven caroms.

Four Medgar Evers players scored in double-figures, led by Alexis Davis, who finished with 15 points on 6 of 11 shooting while pulling down eight rebounds in 22 minutes. Sheily Quezada added 13 points on 6 of 28 shooting while adding seven boards, four assists and three blocks while playing the full forty. 

Jennifer Metra and Nana Samake each scored ten points on a combined 8 of 17 with Metra corralling eight caroms and four steals.

The Cougars jumped out to an 8-1 lead following a jumper by Quezada. Lattimore hit on back-to-back buckets, cutting the lead in half, 10-5. Medgar Evers utilized a 9-4 burst to go up 18-10 before Lattimore added a jumper with two minutes left in the quarter. The Cougars held their largest lead of the night, 22-12 as Samake converted on a layup from Quezada. Ayanna Edwards hit a pair from the line, bringing the deficit down to single-digits.

John Jay opened the second quarter on an 8-2 run, capped by a Lattimore layup off the feed from Zeolla, as the Bloodhounds trailed 24-22. The Bloodhounds took the lead, 26-25, as Minick stole the ball away from Metra and hit on the fastbreak layup. The Norristown, PA hit the last five points for the visitors before Britonya Lloyd hit both from the line to give Medgar a six-point edge. 

Natalie Simonds opened the third quarter with a layup the commenced an 11-3 run, capped by a Minick three-pointer as the Bloodhounds led 40-38. The two teams traded off points before the visitors claimed a seven-point advantage, 52-45, following two more made free-throws by Edwards.

The Cougars scored nine of the next 15 points to open the fourth as Davis hit on a jumper to bring the deficit down to three, 58-55, at the 5:29 mark. In the winding moments, Bah hit on a contested layup that made it a four-point advantage, 62-58, before Samake hit a wing three-pointer, cutting the deficit down to one, 62-61, with 1:52 left in regulation.

Quezada hit a pull-up jumper in the paint off the feed from Metra, that gave the home team a one-point lead, 63-62, with 1:19 left to play. With under a minute, Zeolla rebounded the miss layup by Lattimore and went back up, giving the visitors the one-point edge, 64-63. 

Quezada missed on a jumper, which was tracked down by Aaliyah Lyons. Bah continued to apply contested defense, as she poked the ball away from Lyons. Metra fouled Zeolla with six seconds left.
The Yorktown Heights, NY native sank both attempts, pushing the lead to three and forced Medgar Evers to take their final timeout.

When play resumed, Lyons hoisted a last-second three-pointer in hopes for a tie but that was off the mark and grabbed by Minick as John Jay secured the win.

Of John Jay's 66 points, 32 came from inside the paint as the Bloodhounds shot 37.1 percent from the field.
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