BUFFALO, N.Y. – For the third time in the last five games, the Fairfield University Women's Basketball team dropped a decision in the final seconds. This time it was Canisius' D'Jhai Patterson-Ricks who decided the game as her 3-pointer with nine seconds left gave the Griffs a 53-50 victory over the Stags. The long-range shot ended a 10-2 Canisius run to end the game.
 
Fairfield led for 24 minutes in the contest including heading into the final quarter. Sam Kramer was the Stag who gave the team the advantage as her 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter turned a one-point deficit into a 42-40 lead heading into the final period. Kramer would tally eight-straight Fairfield points as the Stags opened up a five point lead twice in the fourth quarter.
 
The Stags led by that margin with 5:32 left to play after Casey Foley tied a career-high with her fourth 3-pointer of the game to make the score 48-43. That was the start of the game-deciding 10-2 run with the only points coming from a lay-up by Kramer with 1:33 left to tie the game for the seventh time in the contest.
 
Patterson-Ricks would give the Griffs the lead two possessions later and Fairfield's final two shots were offline for the final result.
 
Foley's three 3-pointers highlighted a first half where the Stags led for 13 minutes. All three of those field goals would give the Stags the lead. Foley ended the first half with a long-range shot and her final make in the first half gave Fairfield an advantage they would not surrender for the rest of the half. In fact, that score was the start of an 8-0 run, aided by a lay-up by Katie Armstrong and a 3-pointer by Eden Nibbelink, that gave the Stags their largest lead of the night at 27-20 midway through the second quarter.
 
Fairfield held on to a 31-28 lead going into the half, the seventh time this season they led going into the intermission.
 
Canisius was able to tie the score twice in the third quarter, but could not grab the lead until Sara Hinriksdottir's score with 1:54 left in the period. Kramer would give the Stags the lead twice with a lay-up and her buzzer beating 3-pointer to start her personal run of eight-straight team points.
 
Foley led the Stags with 16 points and four assists with Kramer as the only other Stag in double figures with 10. Kramer also grabbed a career-high six rebounds. Armstrong led the Stags in boards with 10, the first time in her career that she reached double figures in that category.
 
Foley's four 3-pointers brought her career number to 98, placing her 13th in the program's record books.
 
The Stags will close out their Western New York stay with a meeting with Niagara on Sunday at 2pm.