December 2, 2006
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: KIM WAGONER SCORES 22 POINTS TO LEAD LE MOYNE PAST SAINT ANSELM 70-54
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Junior guard Kim Wagoner (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) scored a game-high 22 points to lead Le Moyne to a 70-54 win over Saint Anselm in a Northeast-10 Conference women's basketball game at Grant Court. The Dolphins improve to 4-3 overall and even their league mark at 2-2, while Saint Anselm (1-4, 0-4 Northeast-10) is still chasing its first league win.
Wagoner posted a pair of 11 point halves en route to her 22-point total. Sophomore Katie Dunn (Whippany, N.J./Morris Catholic) added 11 points. Freshman Courtney Coryea (Mooers Forks, N.Y./Northeastern Clinton) chipped in eight points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds. Le Moyne outrebounded its guests 41-33 and shot 42.3% from the field while limiting the Hawks to 31.3%.
Justine Lyons led Saint Anselm with 11 points. Cassandra Loftus scored nine and Jessica Morgan added eight points.
Le Moyne used a 15-3 run early in the second half to turn a four-point edge into a 16-point bulge (49-33) on Vanessa Holden's (Suffern, N.Y./Immaculate Heart) free throws with 13:04 remaining. Holden's layup with 2:32 remaining gave Le Moyne an 18-point lead at 65-47.
Le Moyne hosts Franklin Pierce on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
SAINT ANSELM (1-4, 0-4 NE-10)
Justine Lyons 3-5 4-5 11; Cassandra Loftus 3-4 2-3 9; Jessica
Morgan 2-7 4-4 8; Kirsten Doldoorian 3-8 2-2 8; Christina Buckley
2-7 3-8 7; Kate Connolly 0-2 4-6 4; Reilly O'Keefe 0-6 2-4 2; Erin
Higgins 1-4 0-0 2; Rachel Reilly 1-2 0-0 2; Carleen Orawsky 0-0 1-2
1; Cassaundra Thorpe 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 15-48 22-34 54.
LE MOYNE (4-3, 2-2 NE-10)
Kim Wagoner 9-17 2-3 22; Katie Dunn 3-8 3-5 11; Lindsay Ellis 2-5
4-5 8; Lindsay Carr 1-4 6-8 8; Courtney Coryea 4-7 0-0 8; Vanessa
Holden 2-4 2-2 6; Rhiannon Berry 0-1 5-6 5; Megan Murphy 1-3 0-0 2;
Siobhan Shields 0-1 0-2 0; Cierra Bartell 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-52
22-31 70.
Saint Anselm.................. 23
31 - 54
Le Moyne...................... 30 40
- 70
3-point goals--Saint Anselm 2-10 (Justine Lyons 1-3; Cassandra Loftus 1-1; Kirsten Doldoorian 0-1; Kate Connolly 0-1; Reilly O'Keefe 0-2; Erin Higgins 0-2), Le Moyne 4-14 (Kim Wagoner 2-3; Katie Dunn 2-6; Courtney Coryea 0-1; Megan Murphy 0-2; Cierra Bartell 0-2). Fouled out--Saint Anselm-Jessica Morgan, Le Moyne-None. Rebounds--Saint Anselm 34 (Kirsten Doldoorian 5), Le Moyne 41 (Courtney Coryea 10). Assists--Saint Anselm 9 (Christina Buckley 4), Le Moyne 16 (Vanessa Holden 4). Total fouls--Saint Anselm 24, Le Moyne 23. Technical fouls--Saint Anselm-None, Le Moyne-None. A-300
photos by Greg Wall (gewall11@aol.com
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