WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

The Millsaps ladies won a road game at Rust College, always a difficult place to play.  I don't have the score or the stats available but I remember from the radio broadcast that the victory margin was 3 points.  As I said in a recent post, Millsaps will not challenge for the league championship this season but they are improving at a rapid pace. 

I believe that freshman Marianne Smith was the leading scorer for the 3rd time in the last 7 games and she joins sophomores Crystal Dickerson and LaReina Adams as a strong foundation for the future.  Next up for the Lady Majors is a home game with Dallas on Wednesday (Rhodes won 71-60 last night at Dallas).

[Bubba the Petrel]

Great win today for the lady Petrels.  With this win does anyone expect them to make a strong case to break the top 25 or at least receive votes in next weeks poll?  I know they lost to Sewanee, but since they are 6-0 with wins over two top 10 teams at the time.  Also besides their blowout loss to Puget Sound they only lost by 3 to Maryville (RV) and Pacific Lutheran (25).  Just a thought

Looks like the Lady Petrels did indeed receive votes this week - nice to see them on track after a slow start to the season...

[DPU3619]

Scores from this evening...

Hendrix 65
DePauw 87

Austin 58
Centre 39

Oglethorpe 71
Millsaps 53

Sewanee 60
Rhodes 70

That DPU/Hendrix game was a pretty good ballgame to watch.  Hendrix was only down 3 at the half, but they turned it over too much in the second half.  DePauw got 26 pts off Hendrix turnovers in the second half alone.  44 pts on 30 turnovers all together.

[roaring0506]

DePauw 35
Austin 21
Halftime

DePauw not shooting very well from the field (11-28, 39.3%), but are connecting on FTs (12-14) to keep them out front.  Defensively, they are holding Austin to 17.6% FG shooting (6-34) which has given them the lead at halftime. 

Bondi leads the Tigers in scoring at the half with 10 points (10 min), followed by Bailey with 8 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 blocks (12 min).

Unal and Williams lead the Roos with 6 points apiece.

[roaring0506]

DePauw 78
Austin 45
Final

DPU Key Stats:
25-52 FG (48.1%), 24-29 FT (82.8%), 18 TO, 34 bench points, 41-36 rebounding advantage.

Held Austin to 14-57 FG(24.6%), and forced 21 TO.

DPU Individual Stats:
Suzy Doughty - 12 pts, 8 assists, 2 steals, 5 rebounds, 3 TO (20 min)
Bridget Bailey - 10 pts, 8 rebounds (19 min)
Meghan Warner - 8 pts, 3 rebounds, 2 steals (14 min)

Bondi and Lowes each finished with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Pruzin contributed 6 pts, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists.

Katy Williams led the Roos with 14 points.

DePauw moves to 14-2 on the season.  They face Trinity next Friday in Greencastle.

[roaring0506]

DePauw 26
Trinity 14
9:00 remaining first half

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DePauw 40
Trinity 23
Halftime

DePauw leaders:
Bondi - 8 pts, 6 reb
Gr. Haehl and Pruzin - 6 points
Doughty - 6 assists

Trinity leaders:
Scholbe - 8 pts
Culver - 5 pts, 4 reb
Prato-Matthews - 4 pts, 5 reb

[roaring0506]

DePauw 64
Trinity 46
8:07 remaining

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DePauw 76
Trinity 54
Final

DePauw "Team" Key Stats:
DPU shoots 44.4% (28-63); holds Trinity to 29.4% (20-68). 16 assists to Trinity's 6.  DePauw takes care of the ball having only 13 TO.  DePauw's bench contributes 37 points to Trinity's 19.

DPU Individuals Stats:
McGonigal - 17 pts, 8 reb, 1 asst, 2 steal, 1 TO (19 min)
Doughty - 9 pts, 9 asst, 2 steal, 2 TO (20 min)
Bondi - 12 pts, 9 reb, 1 asst, 1 steal, 4 blocks, 2 TO (32 min)
Gr. Haehl - 10 pts, 2 reb, 2 asst, 1 TO (18 min)
Pruzin - 6 pts, 7 reb, 3 steals

Trinity Individual:
Andrews - 16 pts, 2 asst, 2 reb, 4 TO (29 min)
Prato-Matthews - 6 pts, 7 reb, 3 blocks, 2 TO (25 min)
Culver - 5 pts, 8 reb, 4 TO (24 min)

[roaring0506]

Centre 71
Southwestern 57
Final

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DePauw 69
Southwestern 48
Final

Key DePauw Stats:
24-55 FG (43.6%), 48-28 rebounding advantage

DPU Individual Stats:
Bondi - 23 pts, 3 blocks, 3 reb, 1 TO (26 min)
Pruzin - 8 pts, 3 reb, 2 asst, 1 steal, 1 TO (21 min)
Bailey - 5 pts, 8 reb, 1 block 1 asst, 1 steal (22 min)
Doughty - 2 pts, 6 assts, 4 reb, 3 TO (20 min)

Southwestern Stats:
20-57 (35.1%), 6-14 3FG (42.9%), 13 TO

SU Individual Stats:
Azizi - 10 pts, 3 reb, 2 blocks, 2 TO (27 min)
Stephenson - 3 pts, 4 assts, 3 reb, 2 steals, 0 TO (24 min)
Gordon - 2 pts, 6 reb (15 min)
George - 12 pts, 1 reb, 1 steal (22 min)

[roaring0506]

Other SCAC action:

Trinity 65
Centre 60
Final

Oglethorpe 85
Sewanee 71
Final

[FlightofthePetrel]

The Lady Petrels avenge their only conference loss of the season with a very convincing win over a scrappy Sewanee team.  The game wasn't as close as the 14 point margin might seem with the Lady Petrels leading by nearly 25 when the bench was emptied.  Sewanee's Renninger was hittin the 3's early but fell cold in the second half an allowed the Petrels to pull away with another balanced scoring attempt with 4 in double figure's. 

Kulavic 19 pts  5 reb. 4 ast. 4 St.   

Findley  17 pts.  8 reb.  5 ast.

[roaring0506]

Any thoughts on this week's SCAC matchups?  Any predictions on upsets?  Will OU keep its current 11 win streak going?  Can Austin redeem themselves from the 26 point loss they suffered earlier this season to Hendrix at Hendrix?  DePauw vs. Rhodes - always a battle.  Should be a good weekend of games!

Friday:
Centre at Millsaps
DePauw at Rhodes
Sewanee at Trinity
Oglethorpe at Southwestern

Saturday:
Hendrix at Austin
Oglethorpe at Trinity

Sunday:
Sewanne at Southwestern
Centre at Rhodes
DePauw at Millsaps

[Ralph Turner]

How commonly are the SCAC teams making the Southwestern-Trinity trip in a Friday/Saturday?

Are they doing it if they can get easy plane flights out of Austin or San Antonio?

Thanks