WEST HAVEN, CT - Pace Women's Basketball is coming off their first win of the season versus Mercy University on Sunday. Wednesday evening, the Setters continued Northeast-10 (NE10) Conference play with the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

The weekday NE10 match-up featured a battle for the score advantage midway through the first quarter until the hosts closed out the first half of play leading the Blue and Gold by 10, 29-19. At the end of the night, the Chargers toppled the Setters, 63-50, for Pace to drop to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the NE10.

Here's What Happened:

• To ignite the game, the Chargers opened up on a 6-0 run until Shanice Sinclair put the Blue and Gold on the board and Arianna Stockinger put the squad within one on a three, 6-5. Another made bucket from behind the arc, but this time by Katumina Mansaray, allowed the Setters to take the 8-6 lead over the hosts. Despite the efforts, the Chargers closed out the first with a nine-point advantage, 17-8, after another run (11-0).
• At the end of the first half, Pace found themselves trailing by 10, 29-19. Coming out of halftime, the squad would feature their largest outing in the third outscoring the Chargers, 18-16. With one more stanza left to play, Pace began to battle back with the hosts leading, 45-37.
• Mansaray got the team going in the fourth with points in the paint, but the Chargers would continue to edge the Setters.
• Pace forced back-to-back turnovers at the halfway point of the fourth which led to points from Victoria Dieguez and Sinclair, 54-43. Ciara Collins would slash the advantage to seven from a trey, 55-48, but could not surpass the hosts for the 63-50.

Box Score Insights:

• Dieguez and Mansaray led the team with 11 points each with Dieguez recording three steals and two assists.
• Collins and Stockinger sat with eight points apiece. Collins led the team with four steals and Stockinger led on the boards with four.
• Pace's defense forced 16 Charger turnovers that they were able to convert to 20 points in the night.

UP NEXT: THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND (CSI)
Pace Women's Basketball will play their final road game of the week on Saturday in Staten Island, N.Y. versus the College of Staten Island at 1:00pm.