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Princeton Beats Penn in Ivy Opener, 64-49
January 10, 2009 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (1/10/09) ? Freshman Lauren Edwards scored 16 points to lead the Princeton women's basketball team to a 64-49 victory over Penn in the Ivy League opener on Saturday, Jan. 10 at Jadwin Gym.
The Tigers improve to 6-9 on the season, while the Quakers fall to 4-10.
“We played with extreme effort on both ends,” Coach Banghart said. “In the first half we converted stops to scores and when they stopped our transition we were able to execute offensively well in the second half.”
Princeton started the game on an 18-3 run with Edwards and senior Jessica Berry each contributing five points during the 11 minutes. The Quakers put up a layup and drained a three-point basket to make it a 10-point game at 10:16. The Tigers responded with back-to-back buckets to make it 22-8 with 8:21 to play in the half. At that point 13 of Princeton's 22 points came off of turnovers, and Penn had scored just four points off of Tiger missteps. Two three-pointers gave Penn its smallest deficit of the game, eight points, before the Tigers closed out the game on a 14-3 run. Freshman Laura Johnson notched six of her career-best 12 points during those closing eight minutes to give the Tigers a 36-17 lead at the half.
At the end of the first, Princeton had scored 16 points in the paint, compared to Penn's four, and had 17 points off of turnovers to Penn's four.
“We have to use all our prior games to be lessons,” Banghart said. “At halftime we were thankful for the Lafayette game because we learned from it and knew we had to maintain our lead.”
The second half started with Princeton and Penn going basket-for-basket, as each team hit five to set the score at 46-27 at 14:28. Freshman Devona Allgood and Edwards combined for all five Princeton baskets. Allgood hit two free-throws to give the Tigers their largest lead of the game, 21 points. Penn managed to get the game to within 15 before Princeton again made it a 21-point game. Midway through the second Princeton still had its halftime lead of 19 points.
The teams finished the game trading baskets with the Quakers managing 10 points in the final five minutes to the Tigers' seven to close out the game, 64-49.
Adding to Edwards' 16 points and Johnson's 12 points was senior Julia Berger who went 4-for-6 from the field for nine points, while Allgood chipped in eight points. Johnson led the team in rebounds with six, a career-best, while Berger and sophmores Addie Micir and Krystal Hill each had five. Micir had a team-best three assists.
“We scored in the 60s with our two leading scorers not factoring much into that,” Banghart said. “We need contributions from different people when Addie and Whitney don't give us numbers and Laura Johnson and Lauren Edwards did that for us tonight.”
Carrie Biemer had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Tyler Cumbo added eight points and Katarina Lackner chipped in seven. Caitlin Slover and Anca Popovici had six and five boards, respectively. As a team, the Quakers shot 32.7 percent from the field and were 68 percent from the charity stripe and 25 percent from long range.
Princeton shot 41.1 percent from the field, 41.7 percent from behind the arc and 76.5 percent from the free throw line.
Princeton will take two weeks off for finals and will resume play on Jan. 30 when it hosts Dartmouth at 7 p.m., and Harvard the following day at 6 p.m.