The Dominican University women's basketball team fell on Friday night in the first of back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday in St. Louis, Missouri, falling 56-40 to the Spalding University Golden Eagles at Webster University.
 
"The first road game gave us some challenges," commented head coach Gabby Johnson following the loss.  "We learned a valuable lesson that when your shots aren't falling you have to defend. When we finally settled down, we were able to compete better in the second half."
 
The Golden Eagles opened the contest on a 19-0 run and outscored the Stars 19-2 in the first quarter.  The Stars shot just 1-for-13 in the opening quarter while Spalding converted on eight of its 21 field goal attempts in the quarter and controlled the glass, outrebounding Dominican 19-7.
 
Spalding' lead grew to 36-12 at the half before Dominican outscored the Golden Eagles, 28-20, in the second half.
 
Angela Evola was the only player for Dominican to reach double-figures, dropping in 12 points on 4-for-10 shooting from the field in 31 minutes off the Stars' bench.  Freshman Timiya Ray followed up her opening night double-double with seven points and ten rebounds in the losing effort.
 
The loss drops Dominican to 1-1 on the season with a meeting with the host Webster University Gorloks on Saturday.  Tipoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.