Saturday, February 22, 2003
Lenoir-Rhyne
Triumphs Over Presbyterian, 79-74
HICKORY,
N.C. — Lenoir-Rhyne College senior Maya
Grady scored a career high 29 points and totaled nine steals
and nine rebounds as the Lenoir-Rhyne College women's basketball
team defeated visiting South Atlantic Conference foe
Presbyterian College, 79-74, in Shuford Gymnasium Saturday
evening.
Both teams
continue SAC play on Wednesday at 6 p.m. with L-R (13-11, 5-7)
hosting Wingate University and PC (11-13, 6-6) visiting Catawba
College.
For L-R, Kim
Small totaled 15 points, while Shea
Blacknell added 13 points, five rebounds, and two blocks.
Grady also contributed a team-high five assists in her
outstanding performance.
Junior Bonnie
Werner led PC with 20 points including hitting
four-of-eight from behind the arc. Junior Billie
Haskins finished with 19 points, while redshirt
sophomore Lauren
Yanik registered a double-double with 11 points and 10
rebounds. Coming
off the bench, freshman Cameron
Cook also had a double double with 14 points and 11
rebounds.
Statistically
in the game, L-R shot 47 percent compared to 45.9 percent for
PC, but the Blue Hose won the battle of the boards 41 to 33.
L-R committed only 11 turnovers while collecting 16
steals compared to 21 PC turnovers and only three steals.
PC made 7-of-16 from behind the arc and 11-of-15 from the
charity stripe, while the Bears hit 2-of-10 from three-point
land and made 15-of-21 from the line.
In the first
half, sophomore Joanna
Day-Lewis hit a baseline jumper to put PC up 4-2, and
Werner canned a three-pointer from the corner with 17:30
remaining to give the Blue Hose a 7-2 advantage.
L-R answered with a score by Blackwell and a steal and
three-point play by Grady to knot the score at seven with just
over 17 minutes left. Yanik broke the tie with a free throw at
the 16:27 mark, but Blacknell collected L-R's fifth steal and
finished with a layup to give L-R their first lead at 9-8 with
15:45 left. Haskins scored a putback basket to give the Blue
Hose a brief lead, but Grady scored on L-R's subsequent
possession to put the Bears back on top, 13-12.
The game
remained tight for the next four minutes with neither team
leading by more than three points.
Cook gave PC a 16-15 lead with 11 minutes left, and L-R
countered with Heather Burleson scoring down low to give the Bears a 17-16 lead
going into the media break with 9:34 left to play. After the
break, Grady knocked down a three-pointer to give L-R their
biggest lead at 20-16 with 8:50 remaining. Cook scored baskets
on consecutive possessions to pull PC even with L-R at 22 with
7:07 remaining. After
an L-R timeout, Casie
Thomas hit two free throws to put the Bears back on top
24-22 with 6:42 left, but a putback by Cook tied the score once
again.
Yanik hit a
shot in the middle of the lane to give PC their first lead since
leading 12-11 5:29 into the game, and Haskins converted a
three-point play to give PC their biggest lead of the game thus
far at 29-24 with 4:20 left. After PC's twelfth turnover, Grady
drove and scored to pull L-R to within 29-26.
After a Yanik free throw, Grady made two free throws for
L-R to pull the Bears to within 30-28. Sandi Hyatt's layup finished a fastbreak for L-R to knot the score
at 30-all with just over two minutes left.
Haskins scored a layup fastbreak for PC, but Hyatt hit a
wide-open shot under the basket to tie the score once again.
Burleson
scored a putback shot and Lanica
Williams stole the ball and made a layup to put L-R up 36-32
with 30 seconds left in the half.
Grady finished a sensational half with another fastbreak
layup to give L-R a 38-32 halftime lead.
Statistically
in the first half, PC shot 51.9 percent from the field compared
to 45.5 percent for L-R, and the Blue Hose outrebounded the
Bears 20-12. L-R
committed only eight turnovers while forcing 16 PC turnovers in
the first half. The
Bears totaled 13 steals in the first stanza, and with an amazing
seven first half steals, Grady passed Alanda
Danner (1992-96) for second place on L-R's all-time career
steals' list with 337 in her four years as a Bear.
In the second
half, PC started with three-pointers on consecutive possessions
to tie the score at 38. L-R
hit three consecutive shots to put the Bears back up by six with
just over 17 minutes left.
Yanik nailed a three-pointer from the top of the key, and
on the Blue Hose's following possession, Werner hit another
"three" to give PC a 46-45 lead with 15:45 remaining.
Just over a
minute later, Blacknell sank two free throws, and Werner hit a
baseline jumper as L-R remained on top by three points.
On L-R's next possession, Burleson found Small under the
basket for a three-point play that gave L-R a 54-48 lead with
just over 14 minutes remaining. Grady found Small for a
fastbreak layup to give the Bears their biggest lead of the
night thus far at 60-50 with 12:09 remaining.
After a PC
timeout, Blacknell made another fastbreak layup for L-R, but
Werner answered with a three-pointer to pull PC to within 62-54
with just over 12 minutes left.
The teams' traded baskets in the next two minutes, and
the Bears maintained an eight-point advantage through the
ten-minute mark. After a timeout, Haskins knocked down PC's
seventh three-pointer, and Day-Lewis scored in the lane to close
the gap to 66-63 with just over eight minutes left to play at
the media break.
Following
another timeout, Werner scored to pull PC to within 66-65 with
7:45 remaining. Two
free throws from sophomore Sarah
Woods put PC on top for the first time the first half.
Grady collected her ninth steal and finished with a layup to put
L-R back up 68-67 with just over six minutes left.
Cook hit two free throws to put PC back on top, and Yanik
made one-of-two from the line to extend PC's lead to 70-68 with
just under four minutes left.
On L-R's
subsequent possession, Grady hit a baseline floater to knot the
score once again. Small
drove and scored to put L-R up 72-70, but Werner's two free
throws tied the game once more at 72 with 3:28 to go.
Three L-R free throws earned the Bears a 75-72 lead with
2:29 left. After a PC timeout, L-R's defense stopped PC, and on
L-R's subsequent possession, Williams sank a three-pointer to
extend L-R's lead to 78-72 with just under two minutes
remaining.
After another
L-R defensive stand, PC send Williams to the line.
She missed