Box Score

EAST STROUDSBURG – Behind fine all-around efforts by Emma Fickel, Ann Deibert, Raven Jones and Mackenzie Clark, the Clarion University women's basketball teams claimed its first win of the season, 63-47, at East Stroudsburg Sunday afternoon.
 
Fickel scored a team-high 18 points while adding five rebounds and three assists. Deibert had 13 points, seven rebounds, a career-high six assists and a steal, Jones added 14 points, seven assists, three rebounds, three steals and a blocked shot and Clark had nine points and nine rebounds.
 
Clarion (1-2 overall, 1-1 PSAC West) used an 18-4 run in the first half to take a 38-19 halftime lead and built the advantage to as many as 26, 49-23, in the second half.
 
The Golden Eagles led 6-4 early before going on the run that featured six points from Deibert and five from Jones to take a 24-8 lead that never fell below 14 the rest of the game.
 
Clarion shot 54.8 percent (17 of 31) in the first half on its way to a 47.2 percent shooting day (25 of 53) while holding East Stroudsburg (0-2, 0-2 PSAC East) to 36 percent (18 of 50) on the game. The Golden Eagle defense also forced 20 turnovers and had seven steals.
 
Cyara Woodridge paced East Stroudsburg with 19 points and six rebounds, the only Warrior in double digits. Fayola Moise had eight points and eight rebounds.
 
Clarion returns to action at 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at West Chester.
 
NOTES – A game after seeing her streak of 17 straight multiple 3-point games ends, Fickel hit a pair of treys for Clarion Sunday … Deibert's previous high for assists was four accomplished twice last year with the last time it happened being in the season finale at Gannon Feb. 26 … Amanda Gough, Clarion's starting setter on the volleyball team the last four years, made her Golden Eagle basketball debut Sunday and had one point in one minute of action … Clarion is now 46-24 in mandated PSAC crossover play since its inception in 2000-01. This is the first year the games count in the conference standings.