SBU Sports: Women’s basketball defeats Le Moyne in home opener

The Stony Brook women’s basketball team opened up their 2024-25 home slate on Nov. 7 as head coach Joy McCorvey earned her first career win, leading the Seawolves to a 53-43 victory over Le Moyne on their home court.  

Zaida Gonzalez led the squad with 20 points and eight rebounds. Janay Brantley had an all-around performance tacking on five points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals and Lauren Filien chipped in with eight points, six rebounds and two blocks.

Led by Dallysshya Moreno’s six offensive rebounds, Stony Brook did a great job crashing the offensive glass, pulling down 19 boards that resulted in 12 second chance points. The Seawolves’ defense held Le Moyne shooters to only 27.9 percent from the field, including 20 percent from three-point range. Stony Brook also kept the Dolphins’ Haedyn Roberts to 5-of-19 shooting in the game.

“I’m really proud of the team’s resiliency and the growth that we showed with such a quick turnaround after our game against Columbia,” stated head coach Joy McCorvey postgame. 

“We took a lot of teaching and learning moments from that game [Columbia] and I definitely saw some of that in tonight’s game. We’ve talked a lot about our effort and as we continue to define who we want to be as a team, we always want to be on the defensive end and that comes with resiliency and a dawg mentality. Tonight, they did just that. Shots weren’t falling for us, but they never wavered from what truly matters to our team and doing it on the defensive end,” she said.

The team returns to the court on Friday, Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. across the Long Island Sound at Yale. The Seawolves have gone 4-3 all-time against the Bulldogs with an 81-66 victory last season.  Coverage is available on ESPN+.