SALISBURY, Md. - Freshman guard Katharine Curran erupted for a career-high 31 points as the Salisbury University women's basketball team earned a 71-63 victory over Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) foe Hood College on Saturday afternoon at the Maggs Center on Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Pink Zone Day. SU collected its fifth win in the past six games as the Sea Gulls posted a season-high 21 assists.

Salisbury (9-16, 9-7 CAC) was led by Curran (six assists, five rebounds), who notched career-highs in four different offensive categories. The freshman accumulated career-highs in points (31), field goals (16), field goals made (11) and three-pointers made (five). It was her ninth game this season with double-digit points. The Sea Gulls were also aided by the double-double effort by junior forward Janay Johnson (13 points, 11 rebounds). Junior forward Kylie Hall (11 rebounds, three assists) tallied a career-high five steals and junior guard Meghan Dunn (six rebounds, four assists) came off the bench to tally eight points.

The Sea Gulls will move onto the CAC tournament, which begins next week, as Salisbury is the fifth-seed in the six-team tournament. SU will travel to fourth-seed Wesley College (14-11, 10-6 CAC) on Tuesday, February 24, at 7 p.m. The Sea Gulls split the season series with the Wolverines. SU won the last match-up on February 7 when the Gulls defeated the Wolverines 61-59.

The Sea Gulls set the pace of the game early as they used 11 points by Curran in the first five minutes to jump out to an early 13-4 lead. Hood would register the next six points of the contest to drop the Sea Gull lead to three before SU went on a 10-2 run to extend its lead to 11 points, 23-12, with just over eight minutes left in the half. The Sea Gulls would not register a field goal over the next three minutes until freshman guard Glen Charlton (eight points) buried a jumper to halt an 8-1 Blazer run. Hood would get within three points with just over two minutes to go in the half when Jessica Parrish (17 points, six rebounds) made a lay-up to bring the Blazers within three points, 26-23. Salisbury scored the last four points of the half and went into intermission up seven, 30-23. Curran led all scorers with 13 first-half points.

It took the Sea Gulls only 10 seconds to get on the board in the second half as they used back-to-back free-throws by Charlton to extend their lead. A Curran jumper 40 seconds later would push the SU advantage to double figures for the second time of the contest as the Sea Gulls held a 10-point lead, 34-24. Hood stormed back and would collect eight consecutive points over the next two minutes, seven by Jen Willison, to reduce their deficit to just two points. The two teams would trade baskets before Willison made a lay-up to create the game's second tie, 36-36. Salisbury regrouped as the Sea Gulls went on a 12-4 run over the next three minutes to take an eight-point lead, 48-40. The SU advantage was shortened to three points at the 6:35 mark on a Blazer jumper but it proved to be as close as Hood would get the rest of the way. SU posted an 18-6 run over the next five minutes and would never look back.

Hood (4-21, 2-14 CAC) had three player notch double-digit point totals. The Blazers were propelled by Willison, who had a double-double with 22 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Allyson Lethbridge (four rebounds) collected 16 points while Parrish had two steals and posted a game-high two blocks.