WINSTON SALEM, N.C. – The Fairfield University Women's Basketball team has a lot to be thankful for. The Stags not only defeated ACC foe Wake Forest 72-65 on the road but also reach a couple of milestones with graduate guard Janelle Brown scoring her 1000th career point and Head Coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis picking up her 50th career win.
 
"I'm so thankful for this team," Coach Carly said. "I'm proud of the grit that we showed especially in the second half. I thought in the first half we didn't play our best basketball and then they responded to a lot of the challenges that we gave them at halftime. I love the grit not only against an ACC team on the road but second game of a road trip and coming home with two dubs."
 
Coach Carly's 50 career wins now encompasses 11 different conferences including squads from the: ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big East, and Atlantic-10. Brown becomes the 34th Stag all-time to reach 1,000 career points as she reached the feat on a hustle play, grabbing an offensive rebound and a finish in the second quarter.
 
The Stags (4-2) trailed by as many seven points to end the first quarter but started to chip away and cut the deficit to three by halftime.
 
Kaety L'Amoreaux had the first big bucket of the second half as her 3-pointer tied the game at 47-47 with 3:49 left in the third. Brown would give the Stags the lead as she split the free throws two minutes later, Fairfield's first lead since the first quarter.
 
Izabela Nicoletti Leite put the Stags ahead again as her layup in the final minute of the quarter put the score at 50-49.
 
Fairfield would out-score Wake Forest 22-16 in the final quarter while going 3-for-6 from long range. Brown's traditional 3-point play gave the Stags the lead again. L'Amoreaux's trifecta gave the Stags a two-possession lead and Emina Selimovic's long-range make put the Stags up six.

Fresh off her career-high 32-point game at Charleston Southern, Meghan Andersen hit a big 3-pointer with 1:41 left in the game, breaking a 62-62 tie.
 
L'Amoreaux led a quartet of Stags in double-figures with 19 points while going 3-for-7 from deep. The Stags, who entered the game 12th in the nation in made 3-pointers, hit another eight in the victory.
 
The Stags will now take a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday before hosting Staten Island on Tuesday with tip-off at 7pm.