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St. Mary's City, Md. - Twenty points from freshman guard Katharine Curran (Malvern, Pa./Great Valley) helped the Salisbury University women's basketball team pick up their first win of the season as the Sea Gulls snapped an 11-game losing skid with a 67-60 victory over St. Mary's College of Maryland Wednesday night in Capital Athletic Conference action.

Curran doled out 20 points on 6-of-13 shooting as she was 5-for-9 from downtown.  Freshman guard Meghan Dunn (Olney, Md./Sherwood) added 14 points and four rebounds off the bench, while junior forward Kylie Hall (Baltimore, Md./Lansdowne) contributed a double-double on 12 boards and 11 points.

Salisbury (1-11, 1-2 CAC) opened up the scoring with a lay-up from junior forward Janay Johnson (Baltimore, Md./Catonsville) at 19:07 and then sophomore forward Tiara Hurte (Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall) responded for the Seahawks (2-8, 1-2 CAC) with a jumper seconds later.  The 2-2 tie would hold for the next four minutes as both squads combined for 0-of-9 from the field and committed five turnovers.

SU's sophomore guard Chante McKinney (Gaithersburg, Md./Gaithersburg) finally broke the 2-2 draw, sparking a 15-8 run to put the Sea Gulls ahead 17-10 with 8:20 left in the game.  The run was capped by a lay-up from Dunn who then scored the remaining six of her eight first-half points in the final 5:40 to give her team a 31-26 lead at halftime.

Hurte and sophomore guard Jamie Roberts (Rockville, Md./Barrie) each had eight points in the first 20 minutes to pace St. Mary's at intermission.  Salisbury edged the Seahawks in rebounding, 25-19, in the first half and a near repeat performance in the second stanza gave them a 54-36 margin for the game.

SMCM was set to make a comeback, opening up the final half of play with a 16-6 run to establish their largest lead of the game (42-37) at 11:04 on senior forward Allie Scott's (Laurel, Md./Atholton) lay-up.

Roberts connected on a pair of free throws and junior center Alex Wenger (Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall) notched a lay-up for a 56-55 Seahawk lead at 3:55 but unable to hold on, Salisbury closed out the game on a 12-4 run behind eight points from Curran.

Johnson finished with a game-high 13 caroms, seven points, and two blocks, while McKinney had near double-double on 10 rebounds and a game-high nine assists.

Roberts tallied a career-high 19 points with 6-of-15 shooting from the floor and 7-of-13 from the charity stripe, while Hurte had a double-double on season-highs of 14 points and 11 caroms.  Wenger also matched her career-best from Monday night with 11 boards.  Scott chipped in a dozen points.

St. Mary's returns to action this Saturday, January 10 as the Seahawks travel to Frederick, Md. to face Hood College in another CAC tilt at 2:00.  The women's game is the first of a CAC doubleheader as men's hoops will also take on Hood on Saturday at 4:00.