Despite a terrific performance from the Tribe's sophomore trio, the William and Mary women's basketball fell at Hofstra Thursday night, 79-65.

The Tribe's leading scorer title was shared on the night by Taylor Hilton (Washington, D.C.) and Emily Correal (Venetia, Pa.) with 15 apiece.  Hilton got hers by shooting 7-10 from the field, and added seven rebounds and four assists.  Correal was 5-11 from the field and 5-8 from the line, and had a career-high four steals in her 30 minutes.

Playing in front of the hometown crowd, center Jaclyn McKenna (Huntington, N.Y.) scored 14 points all in the second half, and added five rebounds and two assists.  In the final 20 minutes of the game she was 5-7 from the floor, 1-2 beyond the arc, and hit on all three of her free throw attempts.  Senior Katy Oblinger (Altoona, Pa.) also had a terrific effort, finishing with eight assists to lead the team to a total of 20 assists on 25 baskets, a season-high both for the senior and the team.  Taysha Pye (Bronx, N.Y.) finished with nine points, snapping her 13-game double-digit scoring streak that was third-longest in school history.

In the first half, it was Hilton who put the College on her back and carried her team with 11 points.  Six of them came in one run late in the half that cut the Hofstra lead to a single point with 5:42 remaining.  After the Pride scored a triple and a layup to push its lead to nine, 23-14 at the 9:40 mark, Kaitlyn Mathieu (Waterboro, Maine) hit her second jumper of the half to kick off an 8-0 run for W&M.  Hilton took over from there, scoring each of the next three baskets to chop the lead to 23-22.  She would get points 10 and 11 in the half just 90 seconds later, tying for the game-high for the half.

In the second-half, Hofstra heated up from beyond the arc with five three-pointers that broke the game open in the early and middle-going.  The Tribe refused to show quit, however, persevering through and finishing the game with a 15-3 run over the final 5:22.  Correal got the span started with her final two free throws on the night, while Pye scored four and Hilton also had her final jumper in the run.  The star of this particular show was McKenna, however, who scored seven of her 14 in a little over a minute.  Her first basket was part of a three-point play, kicked off by an assist from freshman Victoria Willems (San Antonio, Texas).  Hilton fed McKenna for her next basket, a lay-up down low, and Hilton also provided the feed on McKenna's final turnaround jumper in the lane.

William and Mary wraps up its three-game road swing Sunday, taking on Towson at 2 p.m.