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1/15/08
- St. Joe’s Climbs Past Mount Ida
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| Carolyn
Freeman '10 |
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| Megan
Farrell '08 |
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STANDISH, ME - The Saint Joseph's College Women's Basketball
team defeated GNAC opponent Mount Ida College on Saturday afternoon,
83-63. St. Joe's now has a perfect 3-0 GNAC record and is 10-4 overall.
SO Carolyn Freeman (Scarborough, ME)
scored a season and game-high 25 points and made 6 three-pointers in
the win.
St. Joe's scored 10 of their first 12 points off a 10-10 free throw
shooting performance in the first 5 minutes of the contest. SO Meghan
Daigle (Grantham, NH) made all six of her FT attempts
to help SJC stake a 12-5 lead.
SR Megan Farrell (Abington, MA) grabbed
an offensive board and made a jump shot to put the Monks up 23-11 with
eight minutes on the clock in the first half. JR Alysn
Ludwig (Waldoboro, ME) hit a jumper to put her team
up by 17, 35-18, with three minutes remaining in the half before the
Mustangs managed to go on a 10-1 run to come within 8 points of the
lead. Freeman nailed a 3-pointer and Farrell
sank 2 free throw shots to make the score 40-28 going into the break.
The St. Joe's defense pressured the Mustangs into making 17 turnovers
in the first half. Defensive wizard Alysn Ludwig
grabbed 3 steals in the opening half.
Mount Ida scored 7 quick points early in the second half, highlighted
by 4 points and solid play from sophomore forward Cherie Parisi (South
Attleboro, MA), to lessen the SJC lead to 6 points with 17 minutes left
to play. This was as close as the Mustangs would get to St. Joe's in
the contest.
St. Joe's forward Megan Farrell grabbed
9 rebounds and scored 15 points. The Abington, MA native was 4-6 from
the field and 7-8 from the charity stripe in the game. SO Allison
Miner (Pembroke, NH) grabbed 7 rebounds and scored
9 points and Meghan Daigle added 8
points and 6 boards in the victory. FY Kayla Boston
(North Berwick, ME) provided a spark off the bench with 5 rebounds and
3 steals in 12 minutes of play. Ludwig chipped in with 7 rebounds and
7 points off a 5-7 free throw shooting performance.
For the Mustangs, SR Crystal Burgess (Lowell, MA) scored 22 points and
Cherie Parisi has 18 points.
SJC shot 75% (27-36) from the free throw line and out-rebounded the
Mustangs by a 53-36 margin.
St. Joe's will play a GNAC contest at Emmanuel College on Monday, 1/21
at 1:00 PM.
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