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LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. -- Sophomore guard Kollyns Scarbrough scored a game-high 18 points as Siena Women's Basketball bounced back from its first conference loss with a 61-57 victory over Canisius. Scarbrough added six rebounds and four assists for Siena which completed the regular season series sweep of the Golden Griffins.

Junior captain Meghan Donohue contributed 14 points, seven rebounds and a career-high three blocks for Siena (11-8, 8-1) which has won nine of its last 10 at the ARC dating back to last season. Donohue shot 6-10 from the field for the Saints which recorded their second best shooting effort of the season, connecting on 44.4% of their attempts against the MAAC's top field goal percentage defense.

Freshman guard Jackie Benitez was the third Saint in double figures, tallying 14 points and seven rebounds off the bench. Benitez shot 4-9 from distance for Siena which fired a season-best 46.7% (7-15) from beyond the arc.

Margret Halfdanardottir led Canisius (8-10, 3-6) with 13 points and Tamara Miskovic added 10 points and eight assists for the Golden Griffins which have lost seven of eight.

The game was tightly contested throughout as a seesaw first half produced three ties and seven lead changes as the teams headed to the lockerroom tied at 28.

However, Siena reclaimed the lead for good just a minute and a half into the third quarter. The Saints ultimately reeled off an 8-0 run capped by a Joella Gibson coast-to-coast finish and foul that put Siena up seven midway through the quarter.

The Saints would go on to lead by as many as eight on a pair of occasions including as late as early in the fourth quarter, but couldn't fully shake the MAAC's top-three point shooting team. Canisius shot 9-19 (47.4%) from distance to remain within shouting range throughout, however it was a conventional three-point play by Miskovic that rallied the Golden Griffins within three with 72 seconds remaining in regulation.

Canisius held Siena without a field goal for the final four and a half minutes and had a chance to tie late, but Lauren D'Hont's baseline three with seventh tenths of a second left lodged in between the rim and backboard with the possession arrow favoring the Saints.

The Saints return to action Sunday when they open a three-game road trip at defending MAAC Champion Quinnipiac at 2 p.m.