After a quick start, the women's basketball falls on the MIT

Cambridge, MA — Ava Gianicusa (Wethersfield, CT) included 11 points for the WPI women's basketball team, which was in the lead of a first quarter, but it could not be able when the seventh seed Crimson and Gray were defeated in a newmac tournament semifinal matchup in Rockwell in the MIC in the Rockwell-Matrize on Friday evening.

With the result, both teams have identical 13-14 records. With the Newmac title game on Sunday in the top seed Smith with top seed and ninth Smith with a tip-off for 1 p.m. It marked the end of the season for Cherise Galasso'S WPI squad and the last career game of three starters, including senior Caitlyn Dasaro (Fairfield, VT) and doctoral students Shannon Reno (Millbury, MA) and Alice Kelly (Wethersfield, CT). Dasaro scored six points and Reno scored five rebounds, while Kelly, who played 40 minutes and scored the team in Babson in the quarterfinal victory on Wednesday, played only two minutes before he left with an injury.

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