NEW HAVEN, CT – The Holy Family University women and Philadelphia University men both fell on Saturday at their respective NCAA Division II East Region basketball tournaments to conclude their stellar seasons. The No. 2 and tournament host Holy Family lost to third seed, Stonehill, in the women’s semi-finals, 72-61. Philadelphia, the No. 8 seed in the men’s event, fell to top seed and host, C.W. Post, 73-51 in first round action.

Sophomore forward Catherine Carr (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) scored a game-high 26 points, but it wasn’t enough in the loss to Stonehill at the Campus Center. Holy Family ends its 2008-09 season at 26-6. It was the team’s sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA Regional Tournament and second straight as the host.

Carr, the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Player of the Year, shot 11-of-21 from the field, including 9-for-13 in the second half. She ends the season 10 points shy of reaching the 1,000-career point plateau.

Freshman guard Lauren Peters (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks W.) added 12 points and tied career-highs with five rebounds and four steals. Senior forward Melissa Brooks (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy) equaled a career-high by dishing out six assists to go with nine points. Brooks finishes her career with 1,115 points, which is 14th on the program’s all-time scoring list. She is also ninth on the all-time rebounding list with 523.

For Stonehill, forward Bethany Tighe showed the way with 22 points, 13 coming in the first half, and eight rebounds. Forward Kesley Simmonds added 14 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three blocks. Guards Emily Rousseau and Megan Methven scored 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Stonehill led coming out of the locker room to open the second half, 31-25. The lead grew to 35-25 after the Skyhawks scored the first four points of the half. Holy Family made its first comeback attempt by answering with eight unanswered points to pull within 35-33 with 14:01 left. The margin went back to 10 after Tighe and guard Kristen McWhirter connected on back-to-back threes to make the score 49-39. Again, Holy Family fought back, this time with a 14-6 run, capped by a Brooks jumper, to get within a basket (55-53). Stonehill used a 9-1 spurt to regain its double-digit lead (64-54) with 1:35 left. The Skyhawks sealed the game with eight consecutive made free throws.

The loss for Philadelphia (25-6) at the men’s regional halted its nine-game win streak that spanned back to February 10th. Junior guard Russell Frederick (Baltimore, MD/ Calvert Hall) led PhilaU with 14 points and three assists, while CWP's Jonathan Schmidt had a game-high 25 points.

The Pioneers jumped on Philadelphia from the start and commenced the contest with an 11-0 run in the first six minutes, until PhilaU junior forward Malcolm Ingram (Philadelphia, PA/ Solebury Prep) scored four of the Rams’ six unanswered points to make it 11-6 at 12:02. Ingram grabbed 10 points and 11 rebounds in the loss.

PhilaU senior guard Mike Dunn (Harrisburg, PA/ Central Dauphin) nailed a trey at 4:24 to make it 20-11, the first good three-ball of the game. Junior forward Mike Yocum (Dresher, PA/ Episcopal Academy) knocked down two at the charity stripe to cut the Pioneer lead to 20-13. Dunn had 11 points (3-7 from beyond the arc) and Yocum finished with 10 points, four boards and two blocks on the night.

The Rams went into the half trailing 26-13. PhilaU shot just 22-percent from the floor in the half, and 35-percent in the game.

The second half opened with Frederick dropping in his first points of the night with a trey at the 19:00 mark, but the Pioneers rallied 7-0 run to pull ahead 37-16. The Rams cut the deficit to 14 on a Yocum jumper and Frederick elevated to nail a trey at 8:19 to make it 50-38, but that would be as close as PhilaU got.  CWP closed out the contest on a 23-13 run to seal the 73-51 triumph. A bright spot for the Rams was senior guard Carroll Mitchell (Baltimore, MD/ Towson Catholic), who finished out his four years with a career-high six points in eight minutes.