Hawks Hammer Saint Michael's
For 5th Straight Win
Blanchard's 20 Leads
Hawks To 86-69 Victory
Jennifer Reddish had a career-high 17 points
on 6-for-9 shooting
(4-for-5 3-point).
-Photo by Marc Hagemeier |
Manchester, N.H. (February 22, 2003)-The Saint Anselm
women's basketball team avenged an earlier Northeast-10 loss with
an 86-69 win over Saint Michael's College, for its fifth-consecutive
victory, in front of 891 fans at Stoutenburgh Gymnasium on Saturday
afternoon.
With the win, Saint Anselm is now 15-11 overall and 10-11 in NE-10
play, while the Purple Knights fall to 17-9 on the season and 12-9
in the conference.
In the first half, the Hawks were led by 14 of junior Brianna
Blanchard's (Presque Isle, Maine/ Presque Isle) game-high 20
points, which came on 5-9 shooting-including 4-of-4 from beyond
the arc. As a team, Saint Anselm was 9-for-12 from three-point range
in the first half. The Purple Knights' were without the services
of senior Liz LeFebvre (Milton, Vt./ Milton), who leads the NE-10
in scoring and rebounding with 20.1 ppg and 10.4 rpg, for much of
the first half due to foul trouble. Saint Anselm allowed Saint Michael's
to shoot 43-percent in the first half, but the Hawks still took
a commanding 54-32 lead into the locker room at halftime.
The Saint Anselm lead expanded to as much as 33 points in the second
half, when freshman Raenielle
Decastro-Cain (Manchester, Conn./ Manchester) dropped in two
of her 16 points with 11:09 to play to make the score 81-48. The
Purple Knights then ended the game on a 21-5 run, but the game was
not salvageable for Saint Michael's as the Hawks came away with
the 86-69 victory.
In addition to the performances by Blanchard and Decastro-Cain,
junior Jennifer Reddish
(Weymouth, Mass./ Archbishop Williams) poured in a career-high 17
points by shooting 6-9 from the floor, including 4-5 from 3-point
range-also a career-high. Junior Jen
Carson (Townsend, Mass./ N. Middlesex) pulled down 10 rebounds
for the Hawks.
The Hawks held LeFebvre to 12 points and five rebounds, forcing
senior Jes Hambley (S. Hadley, Mass/ S. Hadley) to handle scoring
load with 19 points, which includes shooting 7-for-8 from the foul
line. Junior Erica Kensey (Bow, N.H./ Bow) chipped in with 13 points
for the visitors.
Saint Anselm returns to the court for Senior Night on Tuesday February
25th when the Golden Knights of Saint Rose come to Stoutenbugh;
tip-off is slated for 5:30.
| Score By Period |
1 |
2 |
OT |
F |
| Saint Michael's |
32 |
37 |
- |
69 |
| Saint Anselm |
54 |
32 |
- |
86 |
Box Score