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The Longwood women’s basketball team had five players score in double figures, led by reigning Co-Big South Player of the Week Frances Ulysse with 14, as the Lancers defeated Queens, 80-66, at Curry Arena on Monday.

Ulysse shot 6-for-10 from the field and pulled down seven rebounds in the win, helping Longwood improve to 4-2 on the season. Senior Mariah Wilson and sophomore Otaifo Esenabhalu scored 12 points each while classmate Amor Harris chipped in a career-high 11.

“I think that’s really big,” said Longwood head coach Erika Lang-Montgomery of spreading the offense around. “We play unselfish basketball and I think this is a team that really loves and cares and works hard together. And they just like playing. They like everybody being involved and that really showed tonight.”

The Lancers shot 46 percent from the floor, connecting on 29 field goals, also going 17-for-28 from the foul line.

Longwood caused 26 Queens turnovers, leading to 15 points, scored 40 points in the paint and received 34 points from its bench in the first meeting meeting between the former Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference foes in 20 years.

“I liked our resilience in the second half,” Lang-Montgomery said. “Queens was very aggressive. They were not wanting to go away quietly. So, I love that our team responded at the start of the fourth quarter.”

Longwood women’s basketball ends scoring drought

The Lancers trailed, 18-17, through the first quarter but built a 37-28 advantage halftime, despite going scoreless from the floor for nearly eight minutes in the second quarter. Longwood benefited from 10 Royals’ turnovers and hit nine of its 10 shots from the line in that period.

 Wilson halted the scoring drought with a corner 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer.

Booker put her team ahead by 18 points at 60-42 on a layup in transition at the two-minute mark in the third, but Queens (1-3) closed the quarter on a 10-1 run to creep to within 61-52 with 10 minutes to play.

Longwood, however, responded with an 8-1 run in three minutes at the beginning of the fourth, capped with a Kiki McIntyre layup, for a 69-63 lead, wresting the momentum away from the home team.

A Wilson basket with four-and-a-half minutes remaining gave her team a 20-point edge at 75-55 and the Lancers coasted the rest of the way home.

Longwood posted 13 steals in the win, seven of which came from Wilson. Esenabhalu just missed her third double-double of the season with a game-high nine rebounds.

Jordyn Weaver led all players with 17 points for Queens in defeat.

The Longwood women return home Saturday at 1 p.m.,  to face Navy at the Joan Perry Brock Center.