INTERVIEW WITH FIELDS

Bronx, N.Y. – The Lehman College women's basketball team opened its 2017-18 campaign with an 81-42 win over NJCU on Wednesday in the Apex.  The team had three players score in double-figures.
 
In what is characteristic of the Lightning, the team came out in an up-tempo offense and pressing defense.  Lehman scored the first eight points of the game and never looked back.  In the 8-0 run, Aliyah Dorsett and Ayanna Behagen each tallied four points.  They both finished with a game-best 19 points. 
 
After the Gothic Knights got on the board, Lehman continued their frenetic tempo, eventually going up by twenty, when a Selena Lopez steal led to a Lynda Fields layup at 4:04.  A Fields fast break bucket at 3:11 gave the Lightning their largest lead of the quarter, 22 points, when she made the score, 24-2, Lehman.  The led 28-8 after one.
 
Lehman continued its dominance into the second half, pushing the lead to 29 points when Behagen found Fields for a three-pointer at 4:53 and put the Lightning up, 40-11.  Lehman led 45-18 at the break.
 
The Lightning kept the onslaught going into the third, eventually pushing the lead to 45 points, when a couple of Lopez foul shots made the score 70-25.  Lehman cruised to an 82-41 win from there.
 
In the victory, Behagen and Dorsett (in her Lehman debut), each tallied 19 points.  Dorsett also grabbed eight steals.  Lynda Fields shot 8-of-9 and totaled 18 points.  Lehman forced the Gothic Knights into 42 turnovers, which they converted into 41 points.
 
The Lehman College women's basketball team travels to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to compete in the Mary Washington College Tournament.  The Lightning open play there on Friday at 5PM against Gettysburg College and then face either Virginia Wesleyan or Mary Washington on Saturday.