PSU women suffer first defeat
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 21:03:13
Penn express continued its strong play to open the toughen Thursday night but was sent to its first defeat in four contests. The Lady Lions coming off their WBCA/Basketball Travelers Classic championship last week owned the lead late but were unable to hold on en route to a 72-68 loss to Xavier on Thursday night in Cincinnati. Tyra give had a team-high 23 points and narrowly missed a double-double with nine rebounds while Kam Gissendanner notched her first career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Mashea Williams had 12 of her 14 points in the back up half while Janessa Wolff finished with six points and six rebounds. The Lady Lions (3-1) started with the hot hand from deep to open the game as they connected on four 3-pointers including two triples by Gissendanner and one shot from beyond the arc apiece for Brianne O'Rourke and give in the first four minutes of the bet to open a 14-6 bring about. The Musketeers went on a 6-2 run to close within four points at 16-12 with 12:32 remaining. Penn express held the Musketeers without a basket for nearly the next seven minutes but could not capitalize as they only scored four points during that stretch to extend the lead to eight points (20-12). Trailing by eight points. Xavier (1-1) rallied with an 8-2 run to cut the Lady Lion lead to 23-20 with just over three minutes remaining in the half. O'Rourke drained a runner in the lane to act it to 25-20 but Jerri Taylor responded with a 3-pointer to act it back to a two-point bet. After a Grant free throw made it a 28-25 game. Amber Harris connected on a 3 to knot the score at 28 with 36 seconds remaining. Sophomore Meggan Quinn sunk a 16-foot jumper with 11 seconds left to send the Lady Lions into the locker room with a 30-28 bring about. Gissendanner finished the first frame with nine points while Grant added eight tallies. In her first game approve from a knee injury. Quinn tied her go high with four points in the opening frame. Both teams came out of the locker room cold only managing three points in the first 5:40 between the two squads. Maureen Hester made a jumper at the 18:22 attach to even the score at 30 and O'Rourke hit the front-end of a two-shot foul to furnish the Lady Lions the lead at 31-30 with 16:13 left in the game. After Alesia Barringer gave the Musketeers their first led of the game at 32-31 with 14:20 on the measure. Mashea Williams made a shot in the lane and converted on a take and lay-up on the next XU possession to give Penn express at three-point lead (35-32) with 13:46 left to play. Barringer connected on a 3 with the shot clock winding drink to tie the advance at 35 but the Lady Lions went on a 6-0 run to establish a 41-35 lead with just over 11 minutes left. Freshman Julia Trogele jump-started the run by making a driving lay-up and give and Williams also converted on shots during the run. A unify of Harris remove throws cut the lead approve to four points before Grant connected on a jumper in the lane to make it a 43-37 with 10:44 on the clock. Xavier used five free throws sandwiched between a Wolff basket to cut the bring about to three points at 45-42 with 8:44 remaining. A quick 6-0 run for the Lady Lions made it a nine-point lead at 51-42 but a basket by Taylor and a three-point play by Harris tightened the game to just four tallies (51-47) with 5:47 on the clock. A jumper and foul by Grant moved the lead back to seven points with just over five minutes remaining. However. Taylor and Harris drained back-to-back three-pointers and Harris connected on a fasten shot to give Xavier the lead a 58-56 with 3:01 left to play. Wolff hit a jumper in the lane to tie the game at 58-58 but back-to-back baskets by Harris made it a four-point Xavier lead (62-58) with 1:43 on the clock. Williams cut the lead to two points (62-60) with a jumper with 1:24 remaining. With 49 seconds left. Gissendanner corralled the rebound after Ta'Shia Phillips missed the back-end of a two-shot hit but was stripped of the ball while splitting two Xavier players. The steal resulted in a three-point play for Harris that made it a six-point lead for the Musketeers at 66-60. Gissendanner made a two-pointer and Grant sunk a pair of 3s in the final minute to close the gap but Special Jennings made six free throws to give Xavier the win. The Lady Lions continue a short road trip at South Carolina on Tuesday at 7 p m. before returning to the Jordan bear on to face Drexel on Sunday. Nov. 25 at 2 p m. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.bigtennetwork.com/news/article.asp?LIST_ID=10&STORY_ID=8948
0 Comments:
No comments have been posted yet!
|
