PHILADELPHIA --- La Salle got its first Atlantic 10 win on Friday night at the expense of the Xavier women’s basketball team with a 63-58 win at Tom Gola Arena.

Xavier falls to 9-16 overall and 4-9 in league play. La Salle 5-19 and 1-12.

The Musketeers took a 10-0 lead in the first 5:45 of the game as La Salle went 0-for-7 from the field while turning the ball over three times.

Neither team played particularly well on offense in the first ten minutes of the game. Xavier held a 12-6 lead 10 minutes into the contest despite going just 3-for-13 from the field. La Salle was 3-for-15 in the same stretch while the teams committed five turnovers apiece.

The Musketeers led 26-21 at halftime thanks to free throw shooting. XU was 9-of-10 at the line, while La Salle was 6-for-11 at the charity stripe in the first half.

Both teams shot 29 percent from the field in the opening period.

The early portion of the second half saw neither team find a way to take control of the contest. With 10 minutes left in the game, XU held a 47-40 advantage.

La Salle then made 7-0 run, tying the game at 47-all with 8:56 remaining on a Monica Garrido Sanz steal and fastbreak layup.

The teams exchanged the lead three times before the game was knotted at 54-all on a layup from Xavier’s Kate Kreager (Chantilly, Va./Chantilly).

Xavier had broken the tie with an Amy Waugh (Fort Wayne, Ind./Homestead) three pointer, but that was negated on a double-dribble call.

Five unanswered points for La Salle gave the Explorers a 59-54 lead with 2:43 remaining.

Shavon Bell (Euclid, Ohio/Cincinnati State) got a steal and layup to cut the deficit to three, 59-56, with 1:10 left to play.

Both teams failed to score on their ensuing possessions. Then a Xavier fould allowed La Salle’s Garrido-Sanz hit both ends of a one-and-one to get the lead back to five, 51-56, with 31.1 seconds left to play.

Kreager scored on an inbounds play out of a Xavier timeout, cutting it to 61-58 with 12.4 seconds showing on the clock.

Two more free throws from La Salle’s Suzanne Keilty sealed the win as the Musketeers were unable to score on their last attempt down the court.

Aida Sarajlija (Zenica, Bosnia) grabbed a career high 13 rebounds in the game while scoring eight points.

Kreager led Xavier with 16 points. Amy Waugh (Fort Wayne, Ind./Homestead) added 13 while Bell scored 10.

For the game the Musketeers were 21-of-58 from the field (36.2 percent) and 2-for-16 from three point range (12.5 percent).

Keilty led La Salle with 19 points while Garrido Sanz added 18.

The Musketeers will return to action on Sunday in Washington, D.C. in a noon game at George Washington that will be televised on the A-10 Network (Fox Sports Ohio in Cincnnati).