Kara Charette with team-high 16 points in the win

RINDGE, N.H. (January 11, 2014) – Four Ravens scored in double-figures and the Franklin Pierce University women’s basketball team rode a hot-shooting second half in pulling away for a 78-53 win over Saint Rose on Saturday afternoon at The Fieldhouse in Rindge.

The Ravens pushed their winning streak to a season-high four games in improving to 8-6 overall and 5-4 in the Northeast-10, while the Golden Knights dropped their third straight to fall to 8-7 and 3-6 in league play.

Sophomore forward Kara Charette (Fairhaven, Mass.) paced the four double-figure scorers with 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting. Senior guards Brooke Coderre (Woonsocket, R.I.) and Brittany Martelle (Brookfield, Conn.) each rained in a trio of three-pointers and scored 15 and 13 points, respectively. Junior forward Jessica Hurd (Kegworth, England) came off the bench to register a double-double of 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Jamie Hutcheson led Saint Rose with 15 points, while Staci Barrett had 14 in a reserve role.

Franklin Pierce shot 49 percent from the floor for the game, but was even more impressive in the second half by connecting at a 68 percent clip in opening up a narrow margin into a comfortable 25-point victory.

The Ravens were even hotter shooting from three-point range in the second stanza by going 5-of-6 for 83 percent.

Franklin Pierce held a solid, but not comfortable 12-point lead coming out of the locker room at halftime, but the Ravens quickly made things more comfortable with a mix of inside and outside baskets to open up a 52-32 lead with 12 minutes to go.

Martelle knocked down a pair of triples during the opening surge, while Coderre and Ashley Forand (Storrs, Conn.) threw in a deep bomb as well. Hurd and Caitlin Hopkins (Holtsville, N.Y.) tossed in a layup each, and things were in the Ravens favor.

The Ravens never let the Golden Knights threaten after that and kept their lead around the 20-point range the rest of the way.

Coderre was 3-of-3 from the field in the second 20 minutes, while Hurd was 2-of-3 and Martelle was 3-of-5.

Franklin Pierce played well at both ends of the floor, and defensively, limited Saint Rose to just 26 percent shooting for the game, including a 14 percent clip (3-of-22) from three-point land.

The opening stages of the game saw neither side put it together consistently, as the Ravens scored the first nine points, followed by the Golden Knights scoring the next nine, and finally Franklin Pierce responding with 11-consecutive points.

The Golden Knights trimmed the deficit to six with just a few minutes remaining in the half, but Charette tossed in back-to-back layups and Hurd made one of her own to cap the stanza to give the Ravens a 30-18 lead at the intermission.

Charette had eight points in the first half, while Hurd added seven.

Franklin Pierce returns to action next Saturday when the Ravens travel to face New Haven at 3:30 p.m. in West Haven, Conn.

For more information on Franklin Pierce women’s basketball, please visit the team’s page at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu. To follow the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports), Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens). Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce women’s basketball apparel can do so on the athletic department’s online store at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)