SAN RAFAEL, Calif.- Dominican women's basketball (21-7, 15-7) wrapped up their 2025-26 regular season by defeating the Sunbirds of Fresno Pacific 73-69.

Julianne Cotterill, Adia Walker, Isobel Crosswhite, and Keyonee Neal were the four seniors who were honored before the game. They also got the start Saturday afternoon against the Sunbirds. Neal and Crosswhite the senior front court duo for the Pengs got the scoring started when Neal finished with a strong lay-up in the paint, and Crosswhite showed off her smooth looking jumper.

It was the seniors day Saturday afternoon, but the black and gold had big minutes from their freshman guard Sofie Addiego. Addiego, the San Ramon native checked into the game midway through the first and immediately started dropping buckets. She collected a couple of points off her jumper than showed the range from downtown as she drained a couple of treys. Early in the second quarter Addiego led all scorers with 11 points.

The Pengs would continue to feed Addiego as she continued to find space in the Sunbirds defense making them pay with all her offensive arsenal on full display. On the defensive side, Cotterill protected the paint with force swatting away a couple of blocks before half.

Coming out for the third, the Sunbirds would be within striking distance as their three-pointers started to fall. Sienna Evans led FPU's offense as she collected a couple of treys on back-to-back possessions. Senior leader Neal would lead the Pengs offensive charge late in the third when she collected a couple of buckets of driving lay-ups, and then showed off her passing as she dished a sweet pass to Cotterill. Addiego continued to stay hot as she drilled a trey in one of the Sunbirds defenders face to give Dominican a slight lead heading into the fourth.

Neal would lead the offensive intensity in the fourth posting up a couple FPU defenders making them look too small and scoring at easy. However, the Sunbirds three-pointers would start falling again as they called bank on consecutive possessions.

Late in the game, the black and gold would lean on what had been working all day, and that was Addiego. The freshman continued to have a career best game when she led a 5-0 run to pull Dominican within one, and then Neal went to her signature low post spin to give the black and gold the lead.

The Penguins will now gear up for PacWest championships in San Diego as they start March 5^th hosted by PLNU.