Wednesday,
February 20, 2002
BLUE HOSE
CRUISE PAST CATAWBA 69-49
PC’s Werner leads Blue Hose with 17 points on
Senior Night 2002
CLINTON,
SC – Presbyterian
College’s sophomore guard Bonnie
Werner (Kennesaw, GA) scored a game-high 17 points to
lead the Blue Hose to a 69-49 win over Catawba College in
South Atlantic Conference women’s basketball action
Wednesday night.
The Blue
Hose celebrated Senior Night 2002 with five seniors for PC
playing in their last home regular season game. Werner scored
nine of her 17 points in the second half.
Presbyterian
took a 36-30 lead into intermission thanks in part to 12 first
half points by senior center Ja’Net
Vicks (Greer, SC). The Blue Hose were redhot from the
field in the first half shooting 58.3% while holding the
Indians to only 44.0%.
The second
half saw the Blue Hose push the lead to 20 points at 58-38
with 7:35 remaining. The Indians cut the lead to 15 points
(60-45) with 3:50 remaining on a jumper by sophomore post Danyel
Locklear (Pembroke, NC). That was as close as the Indians
would get as PC outscored Catawba 9-4 to end the game.
PC was led
by Vicks’ 14 points while fellow senior Nicole
Chittam (Lancaster, SC) added five points and a
career-high nine rebounds. Redshirt freshman Lauren
Yanik (Greer, SC) came off the bench for eight points
and four rebounds.
Catawba was
led by Locklear’s 16 points and game-high 14 rebounds while
freshman guard Ashley Cox (Richmond, VA) added eight
points and four assists.
Presbyterian improves to 18-7 overall and 9-4 in the SAC while Catawba falls to 19-6 overall and 9-4 in league play. The Blue Hose are now tied with the Indians for second place in league play and will win the tiebreaker with Catawba due to sweeping the season series.