WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Eight players scored at least six points – led by 18 points from Briana Bradford (Waterbury, Conn./Holy Cross) – as the University of New Haven women’s basketball team notched a 79-67 Northeast-10 win over American International on Tuesday at Charger Gymnasium.

With their second-consecutive NE-10 win, the Chargers improve to 4-1 in conference action and 5-3 overall. AIC evens its record at 4-4 with a 2-3 NE-10 mark.

Bradford’s 18 points were sparked by an 8-for-9 day at the free throw line. Nikita Reddy (Germantown, Md./Germantown) hit three three-pointers as a part of her 11 points, while Anh-Dao Tran (Webster, Mass./Holy Name) and Ashley LeBlanc (Methuen, Mass./Methuen) each added 10. Bria Moore (West Haven, Conn./Hill Regional Career) and Lauren Hebert (North Reading, Mass./North Reading), who also drained three treys, had nine apiece, and Aquillin Hayes (Harlem, N.Y./Wings Academy) and Ayana Duncanson (Elmont, N.Y./Francis Lewis) rounded out the scoring with six points apiece.

Moore had a team-best eight rebounds, and Tran hauled in six. The junior co-captain also led the way with a game-best five assists. The Chargers were outrebounded, 43-40, and the turnover battle was even at 14-14.

Krista Ferrentino had a double-double with 15 points and 11 boards for AIC, and Alyssa Roach shared the game best of 18 points for the visitors.

The Chargers held a 17-8 lead midway through the first half, and the cushion briefly grew to double-figures at 20-10 with 9:28 remaining in the frame. A 17-7 stretch for AIC gave the Yellow Jackets a slim, 27-26 edge as the half wound down, and the clubs traded buckets the rest of the way. New Haven struck last on Bradford jumper followed by a Duncanson lay-up in the closing seconds of the period, sending the Chargers into the locker room with a 33-32 advantage.

Reddy and Bradford had six apiece during the opening 20 minutes as eight players shouldered the scoring load for UNH. The Chargers were one field goal shy of 50 percent shooting in the period at 13-for-28 (46.4 percent) from the floor.

The back-and-forth flow of the game continued in the second half, as the score reached its seventh deadlock at 50-50 with 11:54 to play. At that point, a Tran put-back and Hebert trey put New Haven on top and, after an AIC bucket, another triple from Hebert gave the Chargers a six-point cushion at 58-52. AIC had the next six, tying the score for what proved to be the final time at 58-58. The next four points all went to Bradford to swing momentum back to New Haven and, after a pair of AIC free throws, LeBlanc had put-back layups on back-to-back trips and Reddy drained a three to give the Chargers a nine-point cushion at 69-60. The Yellow Jackets added nine late points, but New Haven put the contest away with a 6-for-6 stretch at the free throw line to seal the 79-67 decision.