Box Score HONOLULU – The Chaminade University women's basketball team ended its season with a 79-67 loss to Fresno Pacific on Saturday.
The Silverswords concluded the season at 3-23 overall and 3-17 in the PacWest. The Sunbirds ended theirs at 12-14 and 12-8.
Freshman
Kristle Henry ended her rookie season with a career-high 18 points, five rebounds and three assists for Chaminade. Fellow freshman
Lilia Maio had 15 points with nine rebounds and three blocks.
Kennedi Akana added 12 points with six boards.
The 'Swords' lone senior,
Kelcie Namba, scored three points including a layup in the closing seconds of the contest in the final game of her college career. Namba concluded her only season at CUH with 47 points, 21 rebounds and 16 assists with seven 3-pointers, which surpassed her 3-year career totals at her previous school of Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Ore.
FPU was led by Brandi Blackwell's 13 points. Jenay Herring came off the bench for the Sunbirds with 12.
The game was relatively close throughout most of the first half, although the Sunbirds owned several 7-point leads at several stages of the stanza, the final at the 5:00 mark at 30-23. The Silverswords then went on a 11-4 run to close the half, with Henry and Maio combined for nine of them, as Chaminade knotted the game at the half at 34.
Fresno Pacific took the lead to open up the half, building its lead to 45-39 with 13:25 left, but Chaminade closed to 45-44, all on free throws from Henry and
Shana Kawakami. But a 17-7 FPU run over the next seven minutes proved to be too much for the 'Swords to overcome as the Sunbirds got the lead to double-digits.
The Sunbirds shot just over 50 percent from the floor while the 'Swords were held to 37.7, but was only out-rebounded, 37-36.
Maio ended her season with 313 points, the third-most for a single season in school history. She also finished with 188 rebounds, which is second-most in a single season. With six field goals against FPU, Maio also tied the school record for most field goals made in a single season with 132 (Brittnee Fonnesbeck, 2006-07).
