Nihill, Drexel win 7th straight home game

Drexel extended its home undefeated streak to seven games Sunday with a 68-42 victory over UNC Wilmington.

Kelsi Lidge led all scorers with 18 points, going 8-for-14 from the floor with five rebounds and five assists for the Dragons (125), whose defense forced 25 turnovers. Lidge became the 50th player in program history to reach 500 career points

Bailey Greenberg added 11 points and four boards, while Aubree Brown finished with nine points and nine rebounds. Drexel shot 50 percent (28-for-56) from the floor.

Hannah Nihill, the twotime Daily Times Player of the Year from Cardinal O’Hara, chipped in with four points, three assists and three steals. ST. JOHN’S 70, VILLANOVA 64» Kelly Jekot led four Wildcats (14-4) in double figures with 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field. Mary Gedaka scored 15 points and hauled in a a team-high 8 rebounds. Jannah Tucker and Alex Louin tossed in 11 points each.

Men’s Basketball

Luwane Pipkins scored 27 points and made all six of his free throws in the final 35 seconds and Massachusetts completed a comeback win and beat Saint Joseph’s 72-69 on Sunday.

Shevar Newkirk — who scored six of the Hawks’ last 10 points — missed a 3-pointer and a chance to tie with two seconds left. Newkirk and James Demery led Saint Joseph’s with 22 points apiece.

The Hawks closed the first half with a 14-7 run for a 37-25 lead at halftime. Newkirk made three layups and a pair of free throws in the last six minutes. Demery’s dunk 1½ minutes in extended the lead to 16.

Later, down 12, UMass (10-8, 3-2 Atlantic 10) closed to 54-49 with a 13-6 run when Pipkins made a 3 and a layup, Carl Pierre had a 3 and C.J. Anderson had a 3-point play.

Rayshawn Miller tied it at 59 with a 3 with 5:34 left. That was part of a fourminute scoring drought for St. Joseph’s (7-9, 2-3) in which UMass posted a 10-0 run and led 64-59.

Newkirk and Nick Robinson sandwiched a layup each between one from Newkirk, and Demery added a pair of free throws to reduce the Hawks’ deficit to 66-65 before Pipkins sealed it from the line.

Pierre scored 17 points with five 3-pointers and Anderson had 12.