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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Harvard
Freshman Ariel Rogers Scores Career-High
February 05, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 5, 2005
Box Score
PRINCETON, N.J. - The women's basketball celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day in front of a roaring home crowd of 3,289 fans tonight. Freshman Ariel Rogers tallied a career-night for the Tigers, as Princeton fell 67-51 to Harvard.
The Tigers fall to 9-9 on the season and 1-4 in the conference, while the Crimson improved to 12-6 overall and 3-1 in the Ivy League.
Rogers scored a team and career-high 11 points off four of nine shooting from the floor. She also grabbed five rebounds in 22 minutes of action. Prior to this weekend she averaged 9.5 minutes a game.
Junior Lauren Nestor grabbed a season-high 11 boards in the game and scored eight points, including two baskets from downtown.
The Crimson jumped out to a 17-2 in the games first nine minutes. On the next play sophomore Katy Digovich got the crowd motivated with a three-ball from the left side of the floor courtesy of a pass from junior Katy O'Brien.
At the 9:33 mark of the first half junior Ali Smith made a three-pointer to close the gap to 23-10. Harvard's Maureen McCaffery then led a 10-0 run which gave the Crimson a 33-10 advantage with six minutes left in the opening stanza.
Following a two-minute scoring drought for both teams, Rogers excited the crowd with a sweet baseline move that landed her a basket and a trip to the charity stripe. After completing the three-point play the score stood at 35-14 in favor of Harvard. Princeton made the final shot of the half off a layup from freshman Ali Prichard. At intermission Harvard led 37-16.
Junior Becky Brown scored the opening basket for the Tigers in the second half with a feed from sophomore Shelly Slemp. Nestor made her first of two shots from behind the arc three minutes into the period and tallied the score at 42-23, Harvard.
A three-minute scoring drought for Princeton and a 14-2 run by the Crimson gave Harvard their largest lead of the night at 32, 56-24 with 12:34 left to play.
Rogers made another dent in the lead with her second of three chances at the old-fashion three-point play with just under 11 minutes to play. Rogers, then made a jumper from the foul line to close in on the 60-31 Harvard lead.
On the following play Nestor got the fans geared up as she blocked McMaffery and set up yet another opportunity for Rogers to find the basket. Princeton trailed 60-33 with 8:02 left.
Sophomore Lillie Romeiser made two free throws and O'Brien connected from behind the arc to start a 13-4 run for Princeton. After a missed free throw from Harvard's Laura Robinson, Prichard nailed a three that cut the Crimson advantage to 64-50.
Harvard went to the foul line and connected on 3-4 attempts to end the game.
Princeton travels to N.Y. next weekend for a pair of Ivy games against both Cornell and Columbia on Fri. Feb. 11 and Sat. Feb. 12, respectively.