Women's Hoops Closes out 2013
Nazareth 89, Medgar Evers 32
Visiting Nazareth tuned up for its Empire 8 Conference women's basketball schedule Monday with an 89-32 non-conference romp over Medgar Evers.
The victory enabled Nazareth to timprove to 3-5 overall, while the home team fell to 2-8. The Golden Flyers are back home Friday to host Elmira in an Empire 8 Conference game at 8 p.m. The Golden Flyers also visit Houghton Saturday at 4 p.m.
Against the Cougars, who compete in the City University of New York Athletic Conference, the Golden Flyers snapped a three-game losing streak as sophomore
Lindsey Kelly combined team highs in points (21) and rebounds (8). Sophomore
Julia Brew sank six three-point baskets for 18 points. Junior
Maria Allocco added 11 points and sophomore point guard
Veronica Peck had six assists.
The Golden Flyers made 53.1 percent of their field goal attempts for the game (34 for 64), including 19 of 31 (61.3 percent) in the first half as they were building an insurmountable 48-17 advantage. They also shot 10 for 22 from three-point range, including 7 for 11 in the first half. Nazareth also had a 55-31 rebounding advantage with Brew, Peck and freshman
Hayley Spoljaric each grabbing five. Spoljaric also came off the bench to contribute a career-best eight points.
Kelly's 21 points included 9 of 12 shooting, while Brew went 6 for 11 from three-point range. Nia Tompkins was the high scorer for Medgar Evers with 17 points.
Tufts 66, Hartwick 51
Hartwick sophomore
Brittney Dumas netted a game- and season-high 24 points, but it wasn't enough as nationally seventh ranked Tufts (9-0) earned a 66-51 victory over Hartwick's women's basketball team on Monday afternoon at Lambros Arena.
The Hawks held a 22-21 lead with eight and a half minutes left in a back and forth opening half, but the Jumbos would score 15 of the final 21 points of the half for a 36-28 edge at the intermission.
The first 20 minutes featured seven lead changes and five tie scores before the late Jumbos' rally. The visitors took an 11-point lead on a three-pointer three minutes into the second half and they would maintain a double-digit advantage the rest of the way.
Dumas finished the game making 10 of her 17 shots from the floor, including 3-of-4 from three-point range. She also grabbed a game-best 10 rebounds.
Lee Arduini and
Taylor Vonasek each scored 10 points for the Hawks.
The Jumbos led 51-34 with under 10 minutes left until an Arduini layup. Two free throws from Vonasek narrowed the gap to 14 with 7:47 to play, but 11 of the next 15 points from Tufts would extend the advantage to an insurmountable 20 points, 62-42, with under four minutes left. The Hawks would score seven of the final nine points, with Vonasek scoring four and Dumas adding a trey at the horn for the final 66-51 score line.
The Hawks shot 33.9% (19-for-56) from the floor for the game. They hit only 17.6% (3-for-17) from beyond the three-point arc. 'Wick also out-rebounded the Jumbos by a margin of 41-35.
Tufts, which was led by Kanner's 16 points, had four players in double figures. Foley finished with 14, and Ali Berman and Liz Moynihan each scored 10. The Jumbos shot 44.4% (24-for-54) from the field in the contest and made seven three-pointers.
Kate Purcell scored five points to go along with six boards and a game-high three steals for Hartwick. Maria Foglia pulled down seven rebounds and tied for a game-high with four assists.
Hartwick (6-2) begins Empire 8 Conference play this Friday night at Lambros Arena against sixteenth ranked Ithaca. The two teams have met in the conference finals in each of the past two seasons.
DePauw 65, Ithaca 47
The 16th-ranked Ithaca College women's basketball team (6-2) had top-ranked DePauw (10-0) within four in the second half, but eventually dropped a 65-47 final in the title game of the Amy Hasbrook Memorial Tournament Monday evening.
The defending national champions have won 44 straight games dating back to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2012.
Senior
Kathryn Campbell (Wall, N.J./Wall) became the 11th player in program history to amass 1,000 points. She did so at 13:11 of the first half, draining a three to match the mark. She concluded the game with 1,005 points. Assistant coach
Katherine Bixby was the last Bomber to reach the threshold. Bixby ranks fourth all-time with 1,335 points.
Senior
Mary Kate Tierney (Rochester, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy) and junior
Francesca Cotrupe(Whitesboro, N.Y./Whitesboro) were named to the all-tournament team.
Cotrupe paced the Bombers with a double-double performance of 11 points and a career- and game-high 16 boards. Campbell chipped in eight points and
Samantha Klie (Wyckoff, N.J./Ramapo) and
Geena Brady (Syracuse, N.Y./Onondaga Central) added six apiece. Senior
Jenn Escobido (Lisbon, Conn./Norwich Free Academy) grabbed seven rebounds for IC.
The Bombers claimed the first bucket of the game, but DePauw answered with a 9-0 run to take an indefinite lead. Campbell's three pulled Ithaca within 9-5. She would score twice more to cut the deficit to two, 14-12, at 10:33. The Tigers inched ahead 22-14 at the seven-minute mark. Six scoreless minutes ticked off the clock before DePauw secured a double-digit lead. A Brady layup at the buzzer made good for a 27-18 score at the half.
The Tigers drained the first two baskets of the second frame to pull ahead, 31-18, but the Bombers used a 7-0 streak to make it a four-point game, 37-33, at 13:01. DePauw reinstated a double-digit margin with a 9-1 run over the next three minutes. An Escobido three at 8:38 was as close as Ithaca would get, 46-39, as the Tigers outlasted Ithaca over the final minutes of play. DePauw powered to victory using 12 unanswered points over 4:21 of play en route to a 65-47 final.
Ithaca outrebounded the Tigers, 41-33, though DePauw hit 38.9 percent of its shots to Ithaca's 35.0 percent.