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Women's Basketball Plays At Mount St. Mary's Saturday At 3 P.M.
Game
#21
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (9-11, 4-5 NEC) at
Mount St. Mary's
University Mountaineers (7-12, 3-6 NEC)
Saturday,
January 30, 2010 - 3 p.m.
Emmitsburg, Md. - Knott Arena
Thursday's Game
The Quinnipiac University women's basketball team takes on
the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers Saturday afternoon at Knott Arena
at 3 p.m. The Bobcats will bring a four-game losing skid into the
game and will look to snap that in the first contest in Emmitsburg,
Md., in two seasons. Quinnipiac lost to Wagner, 72-58, in its most
recent game Thursday night to drop to 4-5 in Northeast Conference
play and 9-11 overall this season.
Scouting the Mountaineers
Mount St. Mary's enters the game on a losing streak of its
own. Having dropped its last two games, the Mount sits in tenth
place in the NEC standings at 3-6 this season. In the team's most
recent game, the Mountaineers lost by four, 51-47, to defending NEC
champions Sacred Heart Thursday at home. The Pioneers pulled away
at the end for the win with clutch free-throw shooting in the final
minutes of play. Mary Dunn is the team's leading scorer this
season, averaging 11.4 points per game this season. She is also the
team's leading rebounder with an average of 7.4 per game. The Mount
has yet to win consecutive games this season, losing in the game
following each of its seven wins.
Last
Time Out
One of the Mount's three conference wins this season came
at the TD Bank Sports Center. Mount St. Mary's handed Quinnipiac
its first NEC loss of the season with a six-point win, 59-53, on
Jan. 7 in Hamden. In that game, Cassie Cooke came off the bench to
lead her team in scoring with 13 points, while Leah Westbrooks
pulled down a game-high 16 rebounds in the win. Junior Courtney
Kaminski (Dudley, Mass.) posted 16 points and a career-high 15
rebounds in the loss.
Multimedia
Thursday's game can be heard live on AM 1220 WQUN and the
WQUN.com webstream. Bill Schweizer will provide play-by-play, while
Pat Salvas will add color analysis. Fans can also follow the action
using live stats. Both can be accessed by clicking appropriate
links above.
Streaks of Note
The loss to Wagner snapped a 15-game win streak by
Quinnipiac over its NEC foes from Staten Island. Entering Thursday
night's game, the Bobcats had not lost to the Seahawks since Jan.
3, 2002; a span of more than eight years. The last time Quinnipiac
lost at the Spiro Sports Center was Jan. 25, 2001, falling to
Wagner, 71-56.
A
'Despite' Double-Double
Despite the loss, Kaminski finished with her sixth
double-double of the season. Her 18 points and 10 boards were good
for the double-double, tying her with sophomore Jacinda Dunbar
(Edison, N.J.) for the team lead. She also added two assists, two
blocks and one steal.
A
Near Double-Double
Junior forward Lailah Pratt (Palmyra, N.J.) missed her
first career double-double by just one point and two rebounds
Thursday. Pratt posted nine points on 4-of-5 shooting from the
floor and had six boards in the first half alone before finishing
with eight in the game. Dunbar missed her seventh double-double of
the season with nine rebounds and eight points against the
Seahawks.
Finally Breaking the Seven Barrier
Four times this season freshman guard Lisa Lebak
(Robbinsville, N.J.) had posted seven assists in a game. Against
Wagner on Thursday night, the first-year Bobcat finally broke that
figure, finishing with eight in the loss. As a team, Quinnipiac
dished out 19 total assists, including six from Dunbar to match her
career high set earlier this season against Miami
Put-Back Points
Quinnipiac shot better than Wagner as a team Thursday, but
lost by 14 points. The Bobcats shot 40.4 percent (21-52) to the
Seahawks' 37.8 percent (28-74). However, Wagner pulled down six
more offensive rebounds (18-12) that led to second-chance points
and 22 more field-goal attempts. Quinnipiac's 27 turnovers in the
game to Wagner's 14 also allowed the Seahawks more opportunities to
build on the lead.
