WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – The Monmouth women's basketball team fell to Siena, 69-65, in a down-to-the-wire MAAC game on Saturday afternoon at OceanFirst Bank Center.
 
Siena (10-18, 10-10 MAAC) led by double figures heading into the fourth, but the Hawks (14-15, 9-11 MAAC) began to chip into the deficit. With 4:15 left in the game, Stella Clark buried a trey to spark an 11-5 run that lasted until there was 16 seconds remaining.
 
The Saints went to the line and made one foul shot before Clark once again delivered a timely 3-pointer to make it a two-point game, 67-65. However, Siena was able to ice the game in the final seconds at the charity stripe en route to securing the road win.
 
Clark paced the Monmouth offense with a team-best 21 points to pair with four assists. Kaci Donovan made a bevy of timely shots late in the contest and finished with 18 in the scoring column.
 
Brianna Livingston got the start and posted an eight-point performance, while Jen Louro chipped in with seven points and a team-high nine rebounds.
 
NOTES AND QUOTES
"Thank you seniors for your incredible leadership and for embracing me as your coach. Let's go make a run in Atlantic City!"
-Head Coach Ginny Boggess

-Monmouth honored its five-member senior class of Stella Clark, Brianna Livingston, Jen Louro, Lucy Thomas and Alexa Wallace prior the game.
-Clark recorded her fourth 20-point performance of the season.
-It was the 17th time she reached double figures in the scoring column.
-Donovan notched her 10th double-digit scoring performance.
-Livingston made her first start of the season.
-Louro played in her 100th career collegiate game.
-Monmouth eclipsed 60 points for the 16th time this season.
-It marks the most games with 60 or more points for the program in a single season since the 2016-17 campaign.
-It was the 13th time in the last 16 meetings between the two teams that was decided by single digits.

NUMBERS CRUNCH
-Monmouth assisted on 50 percent of its made shots.
-The Hawks scored 24 points in the paint.
-Monmouth's bench compiled 23 points.
-The Hawks reeled in 12 offensive rebounds.
-Saturday's game marked the 26th all-time meeting between Monmouth and Siena.
 
UP NEXT
The Hawks will await the final result of tonight's game between Fairfield and Saint Peter's before finding out where they will be seeded and what time they will be playing on Tuesday in the first round of the MAAC Tournament in Atlantic City, N.J.