January 23, 2006
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: LE MOYNE RUNS OUT TO 24-9
HALFTIME EDGE, TOPS SOUTHERN NH
50-37 FOR FIRST NORTHEAST-10 CONFERENCE
ROAD WIN OF SEASON
MANCHESTER,
N.H. – Sophomore Kim Wagoner
(Cicero,
N.Y./Cicero-North
Syracuse) scored 15 points and
Vanessa Holden (Suffern, N.Y./Immaculate Heart) added 10 to lead Le
Moyne to a 50-37 win over Southern New Hampshire in a Northeast-10
Conference women's basketball game at SNHU Fieldhouse. The
Dolphins (9-10, 6-9 Northeast-10) pick up their first Northeast-10
Conference road win of the season and snap a four-game losing skid,
while Southern New Hampshire drops to 5-15 overall and 3-11 in
league play.
Wagoner scored 12 of her game-high 15 points in the second half.
She made four-of-eight shots from the field and hit six-of-10 free
throws. Holden grabbed a team-high eight rebounds to go along with
her 10 points. Freshman Kathleen Gladstone
(Cleveland,
Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) and junior
Lindsay Ellis (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) scored
seven points each to pace the Dolphins. Le Moyne made just 14-of-45
shots from the field (31%), but converted 20-of-29 free throws.
Southern New Hampshire outrebounded its hosts 53-35, but started
the game 3-of-28 from the field and finished 13-of-57 (23%).
Sophomore Alex Giannopoulou
(Thessaloniki,
Greece) scored nine points and
pulled down 10 rebounds to lead Southern New Hampshire.
Le Moyne scored the game's first basket nearly three minutes
into the contest and never trailed. The Dolphins held a 13-5 lead
midway through the half when the visitors scored five unanswered
points and opened up their largest lead of the half, 18-5,
following a layup by Holden with 6:10 left before
intermission. Le Moyne took a 24-9 lead into the break.
Le Moyne took their largest lead of the game, 27-11, following a
bucket by Ellis just over a minute into the second
half, and the Dolphins maintained a double-digit lead until the
midway point of the second half. Six unanswered points by SNHU cut
the Le Moyne lead to six points, 35-29, with 7:19 left, but the
Dolphins answered with a bucket by Holden and later took a 40-30
lead following two free throws by Wagoner with 3:26 left. SNHU cut
the lead to seven points twice in the final 3:16, but the Dolphins
secured the win by hitting 8-of-10 free throws down the stretch.
Le Moyne travels to Mansfield for a non-conference game on
Sunday at 3 p.m.
complete
boxscore
LE MOYNE 50, SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE 37
LE MOYNE (9-10, 6-9 NE-10)
Kim Wagoner 4-8 6-10 15; Vanessa Holden 5-10 0-0 10; Kathleen
Gladstone 1-5 5-6 7; Lindsay Ellis 2-5 3-5 7; Ann Belforti 1-5 2-2
5; Lindsay Carr 1-3 2-2 4; Betsy Bordes 0-1 2-4 2; Maureen Van
Vorst 0-2 0-0 0; Kelly Davis 0-0 0-0 0; Andrea Pluchino 0-4 0-0 0;
Cierra Bartell 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 14-45 20-29 50.
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE (5-15, 3-11 NE-10)
Alex Giannopoulou 3-8 3-4 9; Megan Shay 3-8 0-1 6; Danielle Graunke
2-9 0-0 5; Heather Marino 1-5 2-2 4; Chrisondria Griffith 1-3 2-7
4; Stephanie Houghton 1-11 0-3 3; Sara Tucker 1-6 1-2 3; Brooke
Lefort 1-3 0-0 2; Alyssa Whitney 0-2 1-2 1; Kristen Anderson 0-1
0-0 0; Khaliqa Davis 0-0 0-0 0; Maike Mocikat 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
13-57 9-21 37.
Le Moyne...................... 24 26 - 50
Southern New Hampshire........ 9 28 - 37
3-point goals-Le Moyne 2-11 (Kim Wagoner 1-3; Ann Belforti 1-3;
Kathleen Gladstone 0-1; Betsy Bordes 0-1; Andrea Pluchino 0-2;
Cierra Bartell 0-1), Southern New Hampshire 2-19 (Stephanie
Houghton 1-9; Danielle Graunke 1-5; Maike Mocikat 0-1; Megan Shay
0-1; Alex Giannopoulou 0-3). Fouled out--Le Moyne-None, Southern
New Hampshire-None. Rebounds-Le Moyne 35 (Vanessa Holden 8),
Southern New Hampshire 53 (Alex Giannopoulou 10; Chrisondria
Griffith 10). Assists-Le Moyne 6 (Lindsay Ellis 2; Kathleen
Gladstone 2), Southern New Hampshire 6 (Stephanie Houghton 2;
Danielle Graunke 2). Total fouls-Le Moyne 22, Southern New
Hampshire 23. A-127
