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Here's a recap of the women's win over St. Joe's tonight at Roosevelt.

It would be a gross understatement to call Brooklyn College’s victory over the St. Joseph Lady Bears on Monday night “an ugly win.” To head coach Alex Lang, style points didn’t matter, as long there was another tally in the win column.

“A win is a win,” said a relieved Lang after a hard fought over 54-50 victory. “Especially when you’re 6-15.”

Brooklyn snapped a two game losing streak and won despite shooting 28 percent overall and hitting just five shots in the second half. As bad as those numbers were for the Bridges, the numbers for the Lady Bears was even worst. St. Joe’s shot 27 percent overall in the game and were 1 for 17 from three point range. Both teams struggled scoring in the early going, with only five points scored in the first seven minutes of the game.

“We really don’t make it easy on ourselves,” joked Lang. “It takes us too long to get going. We really should have been up 20-3 in this game. We were outplaying them so bad…we didn’t play our game early in the game.”

Jenny Varughese was of the few players on the floor to sink any baskets and was the go-to player on the Bridges after Jaclyn Cavalcante got into early foul trouble. The Bridges, who are going to be without leading scorer Christina McDonnell for the rest of the season relied heavily on the junior point guard. Varughese shook off her 0 for 16 performance against CSI in the Bridges previous game and scored 18 points, including four huge 3’s in the first half, keying BC to a 25-21 lead at halftime. Lang called Varughese last game an aberration.

“(Varughese) really had to step up her game to get some more points,” said Lang. “She did a good job. That’s her game. That was not the regular Jenny on Saturday.”

Her teammates joined the act later in the game as Brittany Natiello had a double-double, scoring 11 points and grabbing 10 boards along with Cavalcante, who scored all of her 11 points in the second half. Natiello and Varughese played all 40 minutes of the game, forced into extra work due to injuries on the Bridges.

“It was a team effort,” said center Rebecca Pearlman, who scored six points and had eight rebounds. “We’ve been struggling this year. I think today was a good game to boost up our confidence because we’re a good team overall.

The Bridges looked like world beaters coming out for the second half, opening up a 10 point lead on St. Joe’s and looked like they would cruise the rest of the way to an easy win. But the Lady Bears refused to say die and took the lead from the Bridges.

“We don’t handle leads well,” Lang said. “When you have a lead, you should run some time, run your offense and we were rushing shots, not being aggressive on defense and that’s what happens.”

The Bridges however, came off the deck themselves and responded, by getting to the free throw line and scoring points from the charity stripe. They took back the lead late in the game and never looked back, getting to the loose balls and the points when they mattered.

“We hit some big shots,” Lang said. “Some games, you have to do that, you have to will yourself to victory. I think we out hustled them tonight.”

Notes: Although McDonnell will not return to the Bridges this season, Lang did say that guard Irene Soulaides, who has been out for the past few games, will be back for the playoffs…The Bridges are now 7-15 overall and were the eighth seed as of press time…Tommy Guerin was named CUNYAC player of the week for the third straight week in a row and one of the front runners for CUNYAC rookie of the year…The men’s team finished the season against Medgar Evers on Saturday and will miss out on the playoffs. The women’s team finishes up at home against Albertus Magnus College at 7 p.m. on Tuesday night before the playoffs.