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Five Players Reach Double Digits as Women's Hoops Defeats Yale 73-57
February 19, 2011 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/18/11) - Five different players scored in double digits, led by Megan Bowen's career-high 15 points, as the Princeton women's basketball team knocked off Yale, 73-57. The Tigers would also set a record for most blocks in a game with 14.
The Tigers improve to 18-4 overall and 7-1 in the Ivy League, while Yale falls to 10-13 overall and 6-3 in league play.
Senior Addie Micir scored 10 points, led the team on the glass with eight rebounds, posted a career-best seven assists and three steals and added a season-high two blocks. Sophomore Lauren Polansky had a career-high 10 points, seven rebounds, three steals and a career-high three blocks. Junior Devona Allgood scored 14 points, five rebounds and had three steals, while Lauren Edwards had 12 points, four rebounds and two blocks.
"We knew tonight was going to be a real physical game and we knew they were going to come out with a lot of energy," head coach Courtney Banghart said. "I couldn't be prouder of how hard we played and how well we executed on both ends. It was a great team win."
Princeton took a 47-23 lead at halftime and more than doubled Yale in rebounds in the first half, 24-11. Fifty-two of Princeton's 73 points came in the paint, while Yale would get just 16 inside. The Tigers also got 23 points from its bench.The teams traded baskets to start the game to make it 6-6, 3:26 into the game.
Princeton went on an 11-0 run over the next 2:36 to take an 11-point lead, 17-6. Polansky and Bowen would score twice and Micir hit a three.
Yale would get within six on a 7-2 run, making it 19-13 at 11:35.
Princeton would spend the remainder of the half padding its lead. An 18-3 run would push the lead to 21, 37-16, with 6:27 left in the first half. During that stretch, Allgood, Bowen and Polansky would each score a basket, Kate Miller scored a three and Edwards had five including a long ball at the shot clock.
Yale scored seven of the game's next 11 points to get within 18, 41-23 with a little more than four minutes to play.
Princeton closed out the half with six points, four from Polansky and two from Edwards to give the Tigers a 47-23 halftime advantage.
Yale staged its comeback for the second half, scoring 11 points in the first seven minutes while Princeton would get just two baskets, both from Allgood, making it a 51-34 game with 13:05 on the clock.
A 10-0 Tigers run would give the home team its largest lead of the game, a 27-point edge, midway through the second half.
After trading baskets, Yale would hold Princeton scoreless from the field for nearly six minutes as the Bulldogs once again made it a 17-point game, 65-48 with less than four minutes to play.
A three by Allie Messimer would give Yale its smallest deficit of the second half, 14 points, as the score stood 68-53 with 1:09 left on the clock.
Bowen would string together two free throws and Kristen Helmstetter had a layup, while Yale would get a solitary three from Zenab Keita as the clock wound down.
Mady Gobrecht led her team in scoring and rebounding with 15 points and nine rebounds. Megan Vasquez scored 12, Aarica West tallied nine and Janna Graf had eight. Michelle Cashen added eight rebounds. Yale shot 34.4 percent (21-61) from the floor, 50 percent (10-20) from long range and went 5 for 10 from the stripe.
Princeton shot 47.1 percent (32-68) from the floor, 41.7 percent from behind the arc and shot 4 for 5 from the free-throw line. The Tigers' 14 blocks breaks a 26-year record of 12 that was set in 1985 and again in 1997.
Princeton hosts Brown tomorrow at 6 p.m., in the annual Pink Zone game. The Bears lost to Penn 55-43 this evening.