Jewel White logs double-double with 19 points and game-high 13
rebounds
BOXSCORE
RINDGE, N.H. (December 11,
2010) – The No. 10-nationally ranked Franklin Pierce
University women's basketball team nearly pulled off a
second-half comeback, but could not hold onto the lead in dropping
a 71-60 decision to Southern Connecticut State on Saturday
afternoon at The Fieldhouse in Rindge. The Ravens fell to 8-2
overall and remained at 5-1 in the Northeast-10, as the contest was
a non-conference affair. SCSU improved to 4-5 overall and stayed at
1-5 in league action.
Junior center Jewel White
(Worcester, Mass.) led Franklin Pierce with a
double-double as she had 19 points and a game-high tying 13
rebounds. White has now logged game-high honors in either points or
rebounds in each of the first 10 games this season.
Classmate Marielle Giroud
(Martigny, Switzerland) followed with 14 points and seven
rebounds, while freshman guard Kate McDonald (Fall River,
Mass.) chipped in with a career-high 10 points.
Giroud's seven boards gave her 498 for her career, as she
will look to top the 500 mark at the 2010 Cruizin' Classic in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Dec. 17-18. The Ravens will take on Nova
Southeastern on the 17th at 6 p.m., and then will face
Barry on the 18th at 7 p.m.
Franklin Pierce shot a respectable
41 percent (26-of-63) from the floor in the game, but the Owls were
able to convert on 50 percent (27-of-54) of their shots. SCSU also
forced Franklin Pierce into 20 turnovers and scored 28 points off
of those.
Sylvonya Moore paced the Owls with
26 points, while pulling down eight rebounds. Shelley Pierson
notched a double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds.
Franklin Pierce trailed 38-29 at
halftime, but came out firing in the second half and opened the
stanza with a 16-6 run to take a 45-44 lead with 12:42 remaining.
Six different Ravens scored during the run, including White, who
had six points. Sophomore guard Tiffany Johnson (St.
Albans, Vt.), who had eight points and five assists in the
game, capped the rally with a transition layup off a steal from
McDonald at the mid-court stripe.
Southern Connecticut State, which
had led for a majority of the first half and the opening minutes of
the second, did not fold and answered at the other end of the court
with a layup from Pierson to go back up by one. Pierson's
layup would kick-start a 9-0 run by the Owls, who held a 53-45 lead
with 9:41 to go.
That run proved to be the
difference-maker as the Owls would not let their lead slip away the
rest of the contest. The Ravens did cut the deficit to three on two
occasions, but could not come any closer in trying to pull off the
comeback victory.
Southern Connecticut's
reserves also came up big in the second 20 minutes as the
Owls' bench out-scored Franklin Pierce's by a count of
12-2.
McDonald tossed in a pair of
baskets in the opening minutes of the game and helped stake
Franklin Pierce to an 8-4 lead two-and-a-half minutes in. But as
they did in the second half, the Owls used a 9-0 run to take a 13-8
lead and would not trail until Franklin Pierce's initial run
coming out of halftime.
For more information on Franklin
Pierce women's basketball, please visit the team's page
at athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) To follow the program even
further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports),
Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics)
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