WBB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

pbrooks3 · December 29, 2008, 09:38:49 PM

Two nice victories at the DePauw Classic for Centre during the holiday weekend with wins over Trine and Spalding. Centre Women will return to SCAC play next weekend against DePauw with a 7-4 record.

Ron Boerger · December 30, 2008, 12:07:06 AM

The news from San Antonio is not so good as Trinity (7-2) fell to Baldwin-Wallace (5-5), 72-57. The Tigers allowed BW to roam virtually at will inside and could not keep their opponents off the boards when they did miss from close in. Trinity also appeared to be shorthanded, dressing only ten players with only eight seeing action (the other two did not even take off their warmups). BW substituted liberally all night and wore Trinity down as the night progressed.

Ariel Brough had 18 and 10 to lead the victors; Trinity got 14 from Abby Dietert and Krista Prato-Matthews, who unfortunately missed a number of layups she'd normally hit in the loss. Prato-Matthews added 12 rebounds.

Trinity will face #16 Southern Maine in the finale tomorrow night - with Southern Maine having been upset by UMHB in the first game tonight.

Ralph Turner · December 30, 2008, 01:02:17 AM

Nice win by the Lady Cru!

Helps the ASC!

OUfan22 · December 30, 2008, 03:44:41 PM

Good win for OU yesterday against Thomas Moore! Not much commentary is needed as the story on d3hoops.com says it all...ridiculous shooting from Kulavic and Findley...I have to add that I've never wanted to chuck my water bottle at the refs so bad...Im glad they didnt let the refs get the best of them...looking foward to more conference games

Ron Boerger · December 30, 2008, 11:01:40 PM

Trinity lost to Southern Maine tonight, 79-67. It was a four point game with 5:08 left but the Tiger women were outscored 11-2 down the stretch. Danielle Hubenak led the way with 27 before fouling out, including 6-of-8 from beyond the arc bu

Walter17 · December 31, 2008, 01:12:37 PM

It looked like the Trinity women had a rough return from the Holiday Break. Hopefully, they can pick it up this weekend as conference starts back up with Millsaps and Hendrix coming into San Antonio.

frank_ezelle · January 01, 2009, 07:23:10 AM

Millsaps is a little bit of a mystery team at the moment so the game with Trinity will be interesting. I'm sure the Trinity game plan will be to pressure Millsaps to create turnovers. That's what everyone did last year with good success so it's what one would expect until Millsaps shows that it can handle the pressure.

Millsaps can be very strong in the paint and on the boards, an area that Trinity apparently struggled with a couple of games back (I'm going by Ron's report). Millsaps is 5-3 right now with the losses coming in the opening 4 game road swing to start the season. I saw the Nov. 25th loss to MS College (99-70) and Millsaps didn't look very good at all. They have looked better since that time, winning 4 straight including a victory over Hendrix. That win came at Millsaps and now the Lady Majors need to prove that they can beat a good team on the road.

The impartial observer would have to look at Trinity's 30-point and 14-point wins over Millsaps from last season, plus the caliber of wins this current year and conclude that Trinity is a heavy favorite this Friday. That's a fair evaluation. I do think Millsaps has played well enough in stretches of games this year to be competitive with anyone in the SCAC. Now what they need to do is play at that level more consistently throughout a game. When they find that consistency, they will become a very good team.

pbrooks3 · January 02, 2009, 06:37:15 PM

I'm headed to Rhodes tonight to see how the Lynx respond to the OU Women. Rhodes has competed well so far this season. In many respects, Rhodes is more balanced this season with Ashley Farrell having graduated. Oglethorpe will be a tough match-up.

pbrooks3 · January 02, 2009, 09:37:16 PM

A competitive opening 20 minutes - 35-31 Rhodes. Rhodes has perfected the dribble drive and McGill has 12 on a range of short jumpers and layups. Kristin Lyle has played outstanding with 14 and a couple of 3s. OU's Kuvalic has struggled with 5 turnovers and 1 basket. Look for OU to bring out some zone in the next 20 minutes.

pbrooks3 · January 02, 2009, 10:09:04 PM

55-55 with 9:40 to play.

pbrooks3 · January 02, 2009, 10:22:14 PM

Oglethorpe is up 68-65 with 3:37 to play. McGill has willed her team to keep them in the game.

pbrooks3 · January 02, 2009, 10:30:45 PM

Rhodes gave it a good go - Oglethorpe prevails in the end 77-67. Anna Findley scored 31 for OU. McGill had 19 for the Lynx with Lytle chipping in with 16. OU simply wore Rhodes down in last 4-5 minutes.

frank_ezelle · January 02, 2009, 10:33:16 PM

I had hope that this would be the night that the Millsaps ladies put it all together and played well against a good team on the road. It's hard to tell just how well a team played when looking at the live stats, but Trinity took a 10-point lead at the half (39-29), had Millsaps cut that lead to 5 on a couple of occasions early in the second, and then Trinity pulled away for a 79-62 win.

It is a better showing than last year when Millsaps lost by 30, but I suspect the Lady Majors went to San Antonio looking for an upset and at the very least a closer game than this final. It will still be a good road trip if they bounce back and win on Sunday.

pbrooks3 · January 03, 2009, 12:41:27 AM

Tonight was the 1st good look I've had at Rhodes this season. I came away impressed with what I saw. They truly hung with Oglethorpe through 35 minutes. They've got a nice blend of old and new in the lineup with veterans' Kristin Lytle and Becky Atnip, and a good crop of freshmen. It was fun to see the dribble drive efforts of Atnip and McGill against the tough man-to-man defense of OU. They used superior quickness to get some easy baskets, particularly in the 1st half. Their quickness in the backcourt helped create several turnovers leading to baskets that helped them control the opening half. Coach Dean has an exciting young squad and they should be tough to beat on the homecourt this season. This group meshes better than last year's squad, and they've got youth and skill combined that should make Rhodes a more consistent winner over the next few seasons.

jekelish · January 03, 2009, 05:54:03 PM

Austin College goes for 91 and hits 55% from deep in a blowout win over Colorado College today. Maegan Fitzgerald was 5-of-7 and had 21 points for the 'Roos and Katy Williams had 15 and 13. Melanie Auguste had 26, 7 and 7 in the loss. The 'Roos were up by as much as 27 in the second half before emptying the bench.