Box Score 

NORTHFIELD, Vt. - Senior G Ally Daniels scored a career-high 28 points, and senior F Jess Jaggars registered a double-double with a career-high 20 points and a career-best 20 rebounds as the Norwich University women's basketball team breezed past Johnson & Wales University, 80-62, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament quarterfinal game Tuesday evening at Andrews Hall.   

Daniels scored 18 of her 28 points after halftime as the Cadets steadily pulled away from the Wildcats. Sophomore F Tara Stevenson added 12 points off the bench for Norwich, hitting all five of her field goal attempts. The Cadets shot a red-hot 50.9 percent from the field in the contest to overcome 24 turnovers.

Norwich advances to the GNAC Tournament semifinals, where the second-seeded Cadets will host third-seeded Albertus Magnus College on Thursday evening. Gametime for the semifinal showdown is set for 7 p.m., at Andrews Hall.

Norwich (19-6) made six of its first seven shots from the field to jump on top 19-5 less than five minutes into the contest. Johnson & Wales responded with a 14-3 run over the next seven minutes to trim the Cadets' lead to 22-19 with 8:22 to play before halftime. NU led 24-21 before reeling off six unanswered points to push its advantage to 30-21 at the 4:22 mark. JWU got to within four points with 2:37 left in the half, but Norwich finished the stanza on a 6-2 spurt to carry a 36-28 lead into the intermission.

Jaggars led Norwich in the first half with 12 points and 13 rebounds. Daniels added 10 points in the opening stanza, connecting on 5-of-7 field goal attempts.

Jeniphr Moxley paced the Wildcats in the opening 20 minutes with seven points. JWU hit just 25.0 percent (9-of-36) of its shots from the floor in the half, while NU made 47.8 percent (11-of-23) of its field goals.

Norwich began the second half on an 11-2 run to open up a 47-30 advantage at the 14:50 mark of the second half. Johnson & Wales got no closer than 10 points the rest of the way, and the Cadets were never truly threatened en route to the victory.

Alexia Ramirez led Johnson & Wales (11-14) with a team-high 17 points. Allyson Dowen added 14 points for the Wildcats, while Morgan Wilson chipped in 10. Moxley finished with nine points for JWU.

NU held a 49-23 rebounding edge, which led to a 16-4 advantage in second-chance points. Johnson & Wales shot just 34.4 percent (22-of-64) from the field for the game.