Army Women's Basketball Earns Star at Home

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point women's basketball team was victorious in the annual Star Game over the Navy Midshipmen, 70-58 at Christl Arena on Saturday afternoon.

Saturday's win marked three straight Star wins for the Army women's basketball team and Head Coach Missy Traversi. The game is part of the Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA. 

Leading the way was Junior Trinity Hardy, who had a season-high 23 points on 10-16 shooting from the floor, and sophomore Reese Ericson, who shot 6-11 from three-point range, scoring 21 to combine with Hardy for 44 of Army's 70 total points.

In a sea of white and many of their cadet peers in attendance cheering them on, which included a majority of the football team, the Army women's basketball team came out hot outscoring Navy 24-13 in the first quarter and never looked back. Army raced out to a 7-0 advantage with two buckets coming from Hardy. Army would go on to lead the entire game.
 
Ericson would cash her first of six three-pointers midway through the quarter to keep the Black Knights out front 13-8. Ericson would soon connect again pushing Army out to a 23-9 lead as the quarter was coming to a close.
 
In the second, Army pushed its lead out to 19 points on a basket by Camryn Tade and would take a 38-25 lead into intermission.
 
In the second half, Ericson was sensational drilling three consecutive three-pointers on three Army possessions late in the third quarter to take a 15-point lead into the final 10 minutes of play at 55-40.
 
Navy would cut into the Army and make it an eight-point game, following a 7-0 run with five of those points scored by freshman Zanai Barnett-Gay. However, Hardy would answer for Army with a three-pointer of her own and several minutes later Ericson would nail her sixth and final three of the day at the 4:59 mark to push the Black Knights back up by 14 points, 61-47 which they were able to control the remainder of the game.
 
Navy had three players in double figures, led by Banett-Gay's 20 points, Kate Samson's 16 points and Kyah Smith's 13 points.