La Plume, PA – Amber Keys led all players with 24 points and 10 rebounds to lift two-time defending league champion Cabrini College to a 66-39 victory over Keystone College in Colonial States Athletic Conference women's basketball action on Wednesday night in the Gambal Athletic Center.  The Cavaliers improve to 9-3 on the season and 3-0 against conference opponents while dealing the Giants (5-7, 2-1 CSAC) their first loss in league play.   
 
Cabrini scored the first 10 points of Wednesday night's game and stretched their lead to 20-6 midway through the opening half.  Back-to-back layups by Jerica Rode (Lords Valley, PA/Wallenpaupack) and AAliya Hayes (New Rochelle, NY/New Rochelle) brought the Giants to within 10 points at the 7:43 mark, but the Cavaliers maintained a double-digit lead, extending it to as many as 18 points, before taking a 34-17 lead into the locker room at the break.
 
Amber Keys led all players with 15 points and six rebounds for Cabrini in the first half while Megan Decker and Meghan Barth contributed eight points apiece for the Cavaliers, who shot 34.1 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes of play.  Cabrini forced the Giants to turn the ball over 14 times in the period while giving it away just three times themselves. 
 
Hayes paced Keystone with seven points in the opening frame while Rode and Jazmyn Robinson (Hyattsville, MD/Northwestern) chipped in four points apiece for the Giants, who connected on 30.4 percent of their field goal attempts in the stanza.
 
Cabrini scored the first eight points of the second half to extend their advantage to 27 points before Keystone put together a 7-0 run to narrow their deficit to 44-24 with 13:44 left on the clock, but that was as close as the hosts would come as the Cavaliers used an 8-0 run of their own to thwart any hopes of a comeback by the Giants.
 
In addition to Keys's double-double, Barth and Dana Peterson both contributed 10 points for Cabrini while Decker added nine points and nine boards.  Decker, Keys, and Kristina Startare dished out three points apiece while Decker and Keys led the way with three steals apiece for the Cavaliers, who shot 34.2 percent from the floor, 31.6 percent from three-point range, and 40 percent from the free throw line for the contest. 
 
Robinson finished with a team-best 10 points for Keystone while leading all players with four assists.  Hayes added nine points while Rode blocked a game-high four shots.  Rode, Chelsey Hropovich (Seward, PA/Ligonier Valley), and Dyjae Williams (Newark, NJ/Bloomfield Tech) had five rebounds apiece to lead the Giants on the glass.  Keystone finished the evening hitting on 34 percent of their field goal efforts while struggling from downtown, connecting on just one of 13 three-point attempts.  The hosts also shot 50 percent from the free throw line.
 
Cabrini held a 51-41 edge in rebounds for the game and an 8-25 advantage in the turnover department.
 
Keystone will look to snap a three-game losing skid on Saturday afternoon when they host Notre Dame of Maryland University in a CSAC tilt scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. in La Plume.