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UD women’s basketball snaps LaSalle win streak
The Fightin’ Blue Hens (4-1) had four players in double figures, including Smith, who scored 10 points. Guard Julie Sailer scored a game-high 15 points, forward Tiffany Young had 12 points and seven rebounds and freshman guard Liz Hayes had 10 points. Tracey Howell pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds. UD defeated LaSalle (3-2) for just the fourth time in 19 meetings and snapped the Explorers’ two-game win streak. Smith, the 2003 Delaware High School Player of the Year at Polytech High School, came off the bench to score her career-high 10 points in just 21 minutes of action. She also had nine rebounds, three assists and four steals. Jill Marano led La Salle with 14 points while Crista Ricketts added 10 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore guard Davineia Payne, a graduate of nearby Caravel Academy who scored 25 points against the Hens in her team's 63-52 victory last year, had nine rebounds but scored just two points. The Hens, coming off a first-place finish at the Coca-Cola Classic Tournament in Fairfield, Conn., last weekend, took an early lead and never looked back. After La Salle's Meghan Wilkinson hit a three-pointer and Jill Marano added a jumper for a 5-4 Explorer lead three minutes into the game, UD took charge as Tiara Malcom scored on a lay-up, Young added a jumper and Hayes drained a three-pointer for an 11-5 lead. The Hens pulled away to a 38-20 halftime lead as LaSalle went one stretch of nearly nine minutes without a field goal. UD enjoyed a double-digit lead for the entire second half, going up by as much as 24 points at 61-37 on a free throw by Sailer with 5:49 left to play. UD will host the U.S. Naval Academy at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5, at the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center. Navy is 3-4 on the season. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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