Springfield, Mass. – February 22, 2025 – The Springfield College women's basketball team closed its regular season out in style with a dominant 70-40 win over Emerson College in Blake Arena on Saturday afternoon.

With the victory, head coach Naomi Graves earned the 600th win of her coaching career becoming the 13th active women's basketball coach in Division III to reach the milestone. 

Springfield, which improved to 15-10 overall and to 7-4 in NEWMAC play, and Emerson, which dropped to 16-9, 7-4, will both await word of official NEWMAC tournament seedings for next week's conference tournament which will be released once all regular season contests have concluded this afternoon.

Amanda Leary (Westbury, N.Y.) led the charge for Springfield with a 19 point, 11 rebound double-double to go along with five assists, one block and one assist. Angie Czeremcha (West Springfield, Mass.) chipped in with 16 points and eight boards, while Claire Finney (Haverhill, Mass.) recorded 12 points and one rebound for the Pride. As a team, Springfield shot 40.3-percent from the floor, knocked down six three-pointers and hit 14-of-16 shots from the charity stripe.

Emerson was guided by Charlotte Levinson and Bri Frongillo, who both recorded ten points in the setback.

Springfield raced out to a 10-0 advantage over the first 3:15 of the game as a trey from Finney opened the scoring for the Pride. Springfield led by as many as 13 at 15-2 following a jumper from Carrie Hess (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and a free throw from Czeremcha as the Pride ultimately held a 15-7 advantage at the end of the first. A tightly contested second period, which saw Emerson outscore Springfield 13-12, left the score a 27-20 at the break.

Springfield came out of the locker room and knocked down nine shots including three from behind the arc in the third outscoring Emerson by a blistering 26-4 margin in the stanza. Leary powered Springfield with 12 points in the third alone as a pull up jumper by the junior guard opened the scoring the quarter. The Pride tallied 12 of the first 13 points of the third as Kassidy Carrano (West Haven, Conn.) knocked down a pair of deep three point buckets over the ten minute stretch. A layup by Hess at the buzzer ended the third with the Pride up 29 at 53-24.

A trey by Finney off a feed by Carrano pushed Springfield's lead to 32 early in the fourth and then late in the game a free throw by Izzy Pazzaglia (Salem, Mass.) gave Springfield's its largest lead of the game of 37 points at 70-33 en route to the 70-40 final.

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