Richmond, Va. – The Le Moyne College women's basketball team resumed non-conference play on Sunday at the University of Richmond (7-2, 0-0 A10), suffering a 69-40 loss to the Spiders inside the Robins Center.

Sophomore guard Sierra Linnin (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) tied her season-high of 15 points for the Dolphins with a season-best five made three-point field goals, while fifth-year senior guard Lytoya Baker (Rochester, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) registered her second double-double of the campaign with 10 points and a season-high/game-high 14 rebounds with a team-best/season-high four assists and two steals in a team-high/season-high 36 minutes played.

Baker also pulled down a game-high and season-high five offensive boards.

Redshirt-junior forward Haedyn Roberts (Holland Patent, N.Y./Holland Patent) added seven points and five rebounds for the Dolphins.

Sophomore guard Kaia Goode (Rochester, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) and junior guard Emily Florvil (Brooklyn, N.Y./Nazareth) also contributed two steals each for the 'Phins, while freshman guard Leah Middleton (Auburn, N.Y./Auburn) pulled down four rebounds.

Richmond sophomore forward Maggie Doogan scored a game-high 18 points for the Spiders on 6-10 shooting from the field, including 4-4 from beyond the three-point line to go along with six rebounds. The Dolphins forced Doogan into a season-worst six turnovers.

Doogan's fellow 2022-23 All-A10 Conference honoree Addie Budnik added 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds for Richmond. Budnik shot 6-6 from the free-throw line during the win.

The Dolphins pulled down a season-high 17 offensive rebounds on Sunday, compared to seven for the Spiders, however Richmond outscored Le Moyne in the paint by a tally of 28-10.

The Dolphins also made a season-best seven three-point field goals.

Le Moyne took eight of its nine total free throws in the third period, during which they were narrowly outscored by the Spiders, 20-17.

Le Moyne (1-6, 0-0 NEC) will remain in Richmond for a matchup against Virginia Commonwealth University on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday's matchup between the Dolphins and the VCU Rams will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Roberts got off to a hot start for the Dolphins, as she scored Le Moyne's first seven points of the contest.

With eight minutes remaining in the first quarter, Linnin drove towards the basket from the left wing then delivered a pass to Roberts who gathered the ball underneath the rim and finished a contested layup between two Richmond defenders.

At the 5:11 mark in the first, Roberts received a pass from Baker at the top of the key then stepped into the shot and swished a three-point attempt to make it 8-5 in favor of the home team.

Following Doogan's second three pointer of the contest, Roberts set a screen for Baker, and Baker drove into the middle of the paint. Baker's pull-up attempt hit the back rim and fell towards the right block, but Roberts was there to grab the contested offensive rebound and convert the putback to make it 11-7 Richmond.

Budnik swished a three pointer from straight on with 1:29 left in the opening quarter, and Richmond held a 16-7 lead after 10 minutes of play.

Richmond guard Grace Townsend cut the basket with 6:20 left in the second quarter, received a pass from Doogan and finished a layup in the paint to give the Spiders a 24-10 lead, forcing a 30 second timeout for the 'Phins.

Following the timeout, Middleton dribbled the ball from left to right, then kicked the ball out to the right wing for Linnin who swished her second three-point field goal of the quarter to cut the lead back to 11 with 5:48 left in the half, but the Spiders answered with a three of their own during the next possession.

The Dolphins then went scoreless until the 1:01 mark in the second when Baker intercepted a pass on the wing and scored a fast break layup t make it 31-15 in favor of the Spiders.

The final made field goal of the first half was a three pointer by Richmond freshman guard Ally Sweeney which gave the Spiders a 34-15 lead at the intermission.

Following a layup from Budnik about a minute into the second half, the Dolphins went on a quick 6-0 run with back-to-back three pointers from Goode and Linnin to cut their deficit to 15.

With just under seven minutes left in the third period, Baker backed her way into the paint, drew a shooting foul and converted both free throws to reduce the margin to 36-23, but Budnik drove to the basket and scored during the next possession, then she drew a foul and converted both free throws at the 5:58 mark, and Doogan knocked down another triple in transition 30 seconds later to extend Richmond's lead to 20 points.

The teams went back and forth for the remainder of the third, then Richmond junior guard Katie Hill drove to the basket and scored a layup in the final seconds of the quarter to put the Spiders up 54-32 going into the final period.

Richmond scored the first 11 points of the fourth quarter with the help of four free throws from Budnik and a three pointer from Kylee Lewandowski to open up a 65-32 advantage with just over seven minutes remaining in the contest.

The Dolphins ended the Richmond run at the 6:57 mark of the fourth when Baker drove the towards the right block then turned and sent a pass to the perimeter for Linnin who buried the contested three pointer.

At the 6:14 mark in the fourth, Middleton caught the ball on the left wing then quickly took two dribbles towards the baseline and knocked down a pull up jumper.

With 4:33 left in the fourth, Baker caught the ball above the right elbow, dribbled left, shifted towards her right with a between the legs dribble, then drove towards the right block, finished a layup over two defenders, drew a foul and converted the additional free throw to make it 67-40 in favor of the Spiders.

Quotes from Le Moyne head coach Mary Grimes:

"I think we're still figuring it out [defensively]. We were able to change (our defense) up a couple different ways with both of our zones and then man-to-man mixed in there. What I see on the stats sheet that jumps right out at me is we allowed seven made threes in the first half, and they only got two in the second half. I mean, they got their average of nine [made threes], but at least we keyed in on the threes a lot better in the second half."

"Between Lytoya and Sierra (The Richmond defense applied a lot of pressure). I thought Kaia Goode did a great job of creating in the first half, and then she went down and that creativity went away but we have other weapons, they just need to play with confidence and I know it's tough right now but we'll get (our confidence) back, we've got a lot more season left to play."

On Sierra Linnin taking a career-high 17 shots: "That's why I keep imploring her [to shoot], because when she misses they all fall in the paint, we can't ask for anything better than that. You saw Emily get in there [grabbing offensive rebounds] you saw Lytoya get in there and get some second-chance opportunities. But yeah, she's taken it upon herself since the beginning of the season, I feel like she's a player possessed right now just playing so competitive and playing so hard, it's great to see."

On the tough road stretch: "It's a tough schedule to have to put together in May and June and what you get is all these good teams because nobody wants to play them. But we really just try to stay present and take it one game at a time, because it can be daunting if you look at the whole thing… I think if we didn't have as many people as we had coming back, our senior led team and the veterans we have, then I (wouldn't have created such a difficult non-conference schedule) but I think it's just going to help them grow. I mean our sophomore class was unbelievable last year and now they're getting even more experience, so, we're throwing them into the fire and building a team here."