Game Recap: wbball | Nov 10 51 LIU 0-1 62 Yale 1-0 Score By Periods Team 1 2 3 4 Total LIU 13 18 6 14 51 Yale 19 17 14 12 62 Box Score Full Schedule Roster Next Game: Saint Peter's 11/14/2017 - 7:00 p.m. Upperclassmen Lead Women's Basketball In Loss At Yale NEW HAVEN, CONN. --- Graduate student Denisha Petty-Evans and senior DeAngelique Waithe each scored in double figures as the LIU Brooklyn women's basketball team opened its 2017-18 campaign with a 62-51 road defeat against Yale Friday evening at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Petty-Evans scored a team-high 13 points on 50 percent shooting (6-of-12) in her first game in black & silver since transferring from Siena College. Waithe chipped in 11 points in her first game with ten or more points since February 27, 2016 (13 points vs. Bryant) and added a team-best nine rebounds. Freshman Jeydah Johnson had nine points and five rebounds in her collegiate debut, leading all players with a trio of three-pointers. Redshirt junior Drew Winter was all over the stat sheet - recording seven points, game highs of nine rebounds (career high) and five assists and four steals (tied career high). Yale scored the first basket of the game on a three-pointer but LIU answered with an 8-0 run keyed by two of Johnson's three shots from long distance. The Bulldogs countered the Blackbirds with a 10-0 surge of their own to regain the lead (13-8) and ended the first quarter by putting LIU in a six-point deficit (19-13). LIU won the second quarter, 18-17, and made its best rally attempt midway through the period. After falling behind by 12 points (25-13) at the 7:34 mark, the Blackbirds went on a nearly four minute, 13-4 run capped by a successful Waithe and-one to trim Yale's lead to three (29-26). Yale could only add two more points to its lead by halftime as LIU remained in striking distance going into the second half, 36-31. In the second half, LIU's deficit doubled (47-37) by the latter half of the third quarter and swelled to a 14 points in the first minute of the fourth (51-37). The Blackbirds continued to fight on, closing the margin to five points twice. Petty-Evans scored seven straight points in a 9-0 run to make the score 51-46 and Johnson's last three-pointer matched one from Yale keep the Blackbirds five points away (54-49) with a little over three minutes left. In the end, the Bulldogs outscored LIU 8-2 down the stretch to seal the game. NEXT UP LIU will look to bounce back in the friendly confines of the Steinberg Wellness Center as the Blackbirds take on Saint Peter's on Tuesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. Players Mentioned Bio DeAngelique Waithe #10 F 6' 0" Sr. Bio Drew Winter #11 G 5' 7" R-Jr. Bio Jeydah Johnson #0 G 5' 10" Fr. Bio Denisha Petty-Evans #15 G 5' 10" Gr.