PURCHASE, N.Y. – Playing the final home game of the 2025 calendar year, the Manhattanville University women's basketball team earned its sixth-straight win on Tuesday night with an 88-63 victory over visiting Saint Joseph's University Brooklyn. The Valiants improve to 7-2 overall and remain perfect in conference play at 5-0, while the Bears fall to 6-4 (2-4 Skyline).
Five scorers reached double-figures offensively, four coming from the starting lineup.
Amanda Orlando (Putnam Valley, N.Y./Putnam Valley) matched her season-high with 17 points, shooting 64 percent from the floor on a 7-of-11 field goal effort. Orlando added seven assists, four rebounds, six steals and a block to a stacked statline on the night.
Gabby Tucker (Port Chester, N.Y./Blind Brook) scored 14 while steering the scoring effort with a season-high eight assists. Tuesday marker her highest assist total since Jan. 22 2025 against Sarah Lawrence when she finished with nine helpers. Tucker also had a team-leading six rebounds alongside three steals and a block.
Esther Ramos (Queens, N.Y./Forest Hills) (13) and
Julie DeBrocky (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) (11) joined their classmates in the starting lineup in double-figures. DeBrocky added four assists to her ledger, while Ramos pulled down three rebounds.
Kathleen O'Mara (Huntington, N.Y./Walt Whitman) rounded out the fivesome in double-figures as the sophomore scored a season-high 14. O'Mara finished tied with Tucker for the team lead with six boards, three days removed from her season-high eight rebounds against Five Towns in Saturday's win.
The Valiants held a 9-8 lead through the opening 2:05 before both offenses went cold with nearly two and a half scoreless minutes on both ends of the court. DeBrocky ended the cold spell with her lone three of the night before O'Mara took charge, scoring eight of the next ten points to propel Manhattanville to a 22-8 lead. The Bears cut the deficit down to nine before
Charlotte March (Tappan, N.Y./Tappan Zee High School) delivered the final basket of the quarter with a three to give the Valiants a 25-13 lead through the opening ten.
The visitors were able to chip away into the deficit with a 50 percent shooting effort in the second quarter, outscoring Manhattanville 18-12 in the second. The Bears opened the quarter on a 14-2 run to come all the way back and tie the game up at 27-27 with 5:42 on the clock. After trading the next pair of baskets, the Valiants were able to regain momentum over the closing 3:17, scoring eight unanswered points to go up 37-29 on a
Madison Carlo (Carmel, N.Y./Kennedy Catholic) three. The Bears beat the buzzer on a Nikki Grech jumper to make the score 37-31 at the half.
Manhattanville shot 53 percent in the second half to regain separation and hold the Bears off to close out the win. The Valiants outscored Saint Joseph's 25-16 in the third ahead of a nearly-identical 26-16 scoring discrepancy in the fourth. The Bears were held in check from deep, ending the night 2-of-8 from beyond the arc in the second half, while being held to a .289 clip (6-of-21) from the floor in the fourth. The Bears got as close as six in the third before the Valiants ended the frame on a 20-11 spurt.
Manhattanville's lead peaked at 26 with 5:05 remaining on a DeBrocky layup, leading 75-49. The Bears were able to knock six points off the deficit before the Valiants ended on a final 9-4 run to cap off the home calendar year with another victory.
Up Next
In the final test ahead of the winter break, the Valiants hit the road on Saturday to Mount Saint Mary at noon.
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