Junior Rachel Csakany (Schenectady, NY/Schenectady) scored 13 points including nine in the first half and led three players into double figures scoring for The College at Brockport Women's Basketball team but Geneseo put together a late first half rally and held on for a 61-52 victory Tuesday night in a State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) game in Geneseo.
Csakany scored five of the first nine points for Brockport (1-5 Overall, 0-1 SUNYAC) as the Golden Eagles built an early lead before Geneseo (5-2, 1-0) responded with a run to take an eight-point lead at 21-13. Junior Bobbi Jean Bryden (New Berlin, NY/Morris) buried a 3-pointer and Csakany added a pair of inside jumpers to trim the lead to just a point at 21-20 with 2:33 left in the opening half.
The Blue Knights scored the final seven points of the half to take a 28-20 lead into the locker room for the halftime intermission.
Early in the second half, a pair of 3-pointers by Desiree Fauvelle (Newport, NY/West Canada Valley) cut the lead to four points with 15:50 left in the half but that was as close as Brockport would get as Geneseo regained the lead and held a double-digit lead for a majority of the second half.
Csakany led the Golden Eagles with her 13 points and also grabbed a team-leading eight rebounds. Fauville scored 11 points and Ellen Story (Catskill, NY/Catskill) added 10 points for the Golden Eagles. Story and sophomore Sarah Alwardt (Rochester, NY/Greece Athena) each had seven rebounds. Bryden had nine points and Alwardt added eight points and a team-high three assists for Brockport.