COLCHESTER, Vt.- Carol Johnson (New City, NY/Cardinal Spellman) (New City, NY/Cardinal Spellman) posted a double-double as the Setters defeated the Purple Knights of Saint Michael's College 57-51 in Northeast-10 Conference action. The Setters improve to 9-3 overall and 6-2 in the NE-10, while the Purple Knights fall to 5-6 and 2-5 in conference play.

The teams traded leads early in the game as the Purple Knights would pull ahead 22-15 with 6:46 left in the opening half. The Setters rallied with a 9-0 run capped off by a three-point play by Brittany Shields (Cold Spring, NY/Haldane) to put Pace up 24-22 with 4:11 remaining in the first half. Saint Michael's tied the game at 24 and the teams would trade baskets the rest of the way but Kerri White (Flushing, NY/Archbishop Molloy) (Flushing, NY/Mary Louis Academy/Manhattan College) connected on her 100th collegiate triple with 1:24 on the clock as the Setters headed to halftime up 32-29.

The Purple Knights took an early second half lead at 34-32 but Pace took control of the game with a 13-2 run to flip the script to take a 45-36 lead midway through the second half. Saint Michael's closed to gap to three points at 45-42 but Pace answered as Allison Cleary (New Windsor, NY/Cornwall Central) (New Windsor, NY/Cornwall Central) hit a triple and a shot clock beating jumper to put the Setters up 54-46 with 1:59 left in the game. The Purple Knights closed to with five points in the final minute but the Setters held off Saint Michael's down the stretch to win by six points.

For Pace, Margo Hackett (Pawling, NY/Pawling) led the Setters with 12 points, while Johnson finished with a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Cleary totaled 10 points and six rebounds.

The Setters are back in action on Saturday, January 7 when Pace will host the Falcons of Bentley University at the Goldstein Fitness Center in a Northeast-10 Conference match-up at 1:30 pm.