WBB: Little East

[AllStar]

Dartmouth 70-57.  Keene continues to fold like a cheap tent.

[7express]

Dartmouth over Keene 70-57.  Christan Wojtas had 15 for Keene; Meghan Ronaghan had 17 to lead Dartmouth and Ashley Brown had 14 off the bench.  Big week coming up for both teams.  Keene has Eastern & Boston this week, Dartmouth has road games @ Boston & @ RIC sandwiched between a home win vs. Plymouth.
RIC clubs Plymouth 71-41.  Well, at least the Panthers scored more points than Western did!  DeAsia Lawrence & Krysten Corliss each had 10 for Plymouth.  Vandell Andrade with 16 points & 10 rebounds for RIC while Cara Paldino & Danielle LeBlanc each had 14.  Getting hot at the right time, not a team you want to be playing at the moment.  They have 2 losses since December 2: 1 was by 2 in overtime on a last second 3 pointer, and the other was by 11 to the #2 team in the country.  BIIIIIIIIG game vs. Eastern on Saturday at the Murray Center which I'll probably go to, assuming my basketball game at 9 AM doesn't go to 7 overtimes.  With Rebecca Knight's unspecified injury (missed her 5th straight game today), Boston's lack of scoring options outside Olivia Murphy & Andrea Suffredini, Western & Keene's offensive inefficiency and Dartmouth's inability to win on the road (remember they won @ Plymouth by only 5 after trailing the majority of the game, lost by 20 @ a Western team who got completely embarrassed by Boston, and got embarrassed @ USM who haven't looked very good without Knight and they still have yet to play the conferences top 2 [Eastern & RIC]), so the winner of that Eastern/RIC game Saturday would be a likely favorite to win the conference since I just pointed out rest of the conferences inefficiency's.    Doesn't mean they will as there's a lot of parity this year, but the winner definitely goes into the poll position heading into the home stretch of February.
Eastern over USM 75-64.  Erin McNamera with 20 for the Huskies.  Jordyn Nappi with a game high 23 for the Warriors, while Jill Ritrosky had a 20-11 line.  A couple things: 1) I wish D-3 would give out more information on injuries.  Rebecca Knight is one of USM's better players.  I'd like to know what happened, an expected time line.  In the game recap article of the game she got hurt the article says she only played 9 minutes.  Why don't you tell us why she only played 9 minutes??  Certainly, your star player is going to be playing more than 9 minutes in a game. And even in the recaps from other games following that, not one mention of why Knight is absent.  Since these are getting written straight from the USM website, certainly SOMEONE has to know. And from what I've seen of Fifield, he's not one to put someone in the doghouse for 5 straight games.  2) I jinxed Rosalie Edmonds of Plymouth earlier in the year, but Jordyn Nappi is definitely making a strong case for ROY as Edmonds has fallen off (I'd put Nappi up there with Meghan Ronaghan & Ashley Brown from Dartmouth, Colleen Cosker from Western & Stephanie D'Annolfo for Keene).  I'll have my quarter pole predictions either tomorrow or Monday, so I'll make a guess then. 3) Is Kristina Forsman injured again??  I haven't seen her name listed in an Eastern boxscore in a while.
Boston wallops Western 66-40.  Beacons shot over 50% while holding the Colonials to 30%,and forced 20 Western turnovers which they converted for 19 points.  Katrina Edwards lead the Beacons with a career high 19 points, and the Beacons big guns Suffredini & Murphy did the rest of the work: Suffredeni had 17 points, & Murphy had 14 points & 11 rebounds despite only playing 29 minutes.  Actually, Courtney Mattingly didn't even need her in the second half.  if Murphy can ever establish an outside game like Erika Bornemann did in her final 2 years, she may be unguardable.  How this team lost to Plymouth at home is beyond me.  Of course, I also have no idea how Western beat Dartmouth by 20 either.

Standings:
1) Eastern 4-1 (10-4)
1) RIC 4-1 (11-5)
3) Western 3-2 (9-6)
3) Dartmouth 3-2 (9-5)
5) Boston 2-3 (10-5)
5) USM 2-3 (9-6)
7) Keene 1-4 (8-6)
7) Plymouth 1-4 (2-11)

49-28 LEC; 3-1 on the day, 70-24 overall.

Schedule:
Tuesday, January 21:
Plymouth @ USM 5:30
RIC @ Western 5:30
Keene @ Eastern 5:30
Dartmouth @ Boston 5:30.  If Western didn't lay a T-rex sized egg today, I'd vote Western/RIC for best game on Tuesday, but I think RIC blows them out.  I'll go Dartmouth/Boston for best Tuesday.

Thursday, January 23:
Dartmouth @ Framingham 6:00

Saturday, January 25:
USM @ Western 1:00
Eastern @ RIC 1:00
Boston @ Keene 1:00
Plymouth @ Dartmouth 1:00

[ECSUalum]

Dartmouth over Keene 70-57.  Christan Wojtas had 15 for Keene; Meghan Ronaghan had 17 to lead Dartmouth and Ashley Brown had 14 off the bench.  Big week coming up for both teams.  Keene has Eastern & Boston this week, Dartmouth has road games @ Boston & @ RIC sandwiched between a home win vs. Plymouth.
RIC clubs Plymouth 71-41.  Well, at least the Panthers scored more points than Western did!  DeAsia Lawrence & Krysten Corliss each had 10 for Plymouth.  Vandell Andrade with 16 points & 10 rebounds for RIC while Cara Paldino & Danielle LeBlanc each had 14.  Getting hot at the right time, not a team you want to be playing at the moment.  They have 2 losses since December 2: 1 was by 2 in overtime on a last second 3 pointer, and the other was by 11 to the #2 team in the country.  BIIIIIIIIG game vs. Eastern on Saturday at the Murray Center which I'll probably go to, assuming my basketball game at 9 AM doesn't go to 7 overtimes.  With Rebecca Knight's unspecified injury (missed her 5th straight game today), Boston's lack of scoring options outside Olivia Murphy & Andrea Suffredini, Western & Keene's offensive inefficiency and Dartmouth's inability to win on the road (remember they won @ Plymouth by only 5 after trailing the majority of the game, lost by 20 @ a Western team who got completely embarrassed by Boston, and got embarrassed @ USM who haven't looked very good without Knight and they still have yet to play the conferences top 2 [Eastern & RIC]), so the winner of that Eastern/RIC game Saturday would be a likely favorite to win the conference since I just pointed out rest of the conferences inefficiency's.    Doesn't mean they will as there's a lot of parity this year, but the winner definitely goes into the poll position heading into the home stretch of February.
Eastern over USM 75-64.  Erin McNamera with 20 for the Huskies.  Jordyn Nappi with a game high 23 for the Warriors, while Jill Ritrosky had a 20-11 line.  A couple things: 1) I wish D-3 would give out more information on injuries.  Rebecca Knight is one of USM's better players.  I'd like to know what happened, an expected time line.  In the game recap article of the game she got hurt the article says she only played 9 minutes.  Why don't you tell us why she only played 9 minutes??  Certainly, your star player is going to be playing more than 9 minutes in a game. And even in the recaps from other games following that, not one mention of why Knight is absent.  Since these are getting written straight from the USM website, certainly SOMEONE has to know. And from what I've seen of Fifield, he's not one to put someone in the doghouse for 5 straight games.  2) I jinxed Rosalie Edmonds of Plymouth earlier in the year, but Jordyn Nappi is definitely making a strong case for ROY as Edmonds has fallen off (I'd put Nappi up there with Meghan Ronaghan & Ashley Brown from Dartmouth, Colleen Cosker from Western & Stephanie D'Annolfo for Keene).  I'll have my quarter pole predictions either tomorrow or Monday, so I'll make a guess then. 3) Is Kristina Forsman injured again??  I haven't seen her name listed in an Eastern boxscore in a while.
Boston wallops Western 66-40.  Beacons shot over 50% while holding the Colonials to 30%,and forced 20 Western turnovers which they converted for 19 points.  Katrina Edwards lead the Beacons with a career high 19 points, and the Beacons big guns Suffredini & Murphy did the rest of the work: Suffredeni had 17 points, & Murphy had 14 points & 11 rebounds despite only playing 29 minutes.  Actually, Courtney Mattingly didn't even need her in the second half.  if Murphy can ever establish an outside game like Erika Bornemann did in her final 2 years, she may be unguardable.  How this team lost to Plymouth at home is beyond me.  Of course, I also have no idea how Western beat Dartmouth by 20 either.

Standings:
1) Eastern 4-1 (10-4)
1) RIC 4-1 (11-5)
3) Western 3-2 (9-6)
3) Dartmouth 3-2 (9-5)
5) Boston 2-3 (10-5)
5) USM 2-3 (9-6)
7) Keene 1-4 (8-6)
7) Plymouth 1-4 (2-11)

49-28 LEC; 3-1 on the day, 70-24 overall.

Schedule:
Tuesday, January 21:
Plymouth @ USM 5:30
RIC @ Western 5:30
Keene @ Eastern 5:30
Dartmouth @ Boston 5:30.  If Western didn't lay a T-rex sized egg today, I'd vote Western/RIC for best game on Tuesday, but I think RIC blows them out.  I'll go Dartmouth/Boston for best Tuesday.

Thursday, January 23:
Dartmouth @ Framingham 6:00

Saturday, January 25:
USM @ Western 1:00
Eastern @ RIC 1:00
Boston @ Keene 1:00
Plymouth @ Dartmouth 1:00

7,
I have not heard about a Kristina Forsman injury, however, The ECSU announcers on the LECTV broadcasts may have mentioned her absence.  I have not watched/ listened to all of the ECSU women's games this year!  I think you can tweet probably more like e-mail ECSU Dir. of Broadcasting, Nick Aconfora to see if he has the info on Kristina

[7express]

Tuesday schedule:

Plymouth 38 @ USM 64.
Not as lopsided as it would be with a healthy Rebecca Knight, but USM should get a pretty convincing and much needed win none-the-less.
RIC 65 @ Western 48.
A team that gives up only 56.5 ppg against a team that only scores 56.1 ppg, and 50.8 in the conference??  Yah, I'll take RIC, the team playing the best basketball of any team in the conference, and unlike Western, they actually have a decent offense (64+ ppg) and Vandell Andrade has been a double double machine lately.  Of course with Western this year watch them win this than score like 20 points against USM Saturday.
Keene 54 @ Eastern 67.
Don't think Keene is going to able to put up a lot of points.  Eastern knows they have a big game on Sat, may sleepwalk for a bit, but they'll pull it out.
Dartmouth 68 @ Boston 72.
The matchups of 2 of the best guards in the conference (Andrea Suffredini of Boston vs. Kelsey Garrity of Dartmouth) and 2 of the best bigs in the league (Erika Bornemann from Dartmouth and Olivia Murphy from Boston).  Dartmouth can't win on the road, but Boston can't get scoring outside of Suffredini & Murphy.  IF the Beacons can get contributions from Chantel Jordan, Mallory Nelson and Katrina Edwards like they did Saturday vs. Western I'd say the Beacons get the win at home.  if the Beacons have one of their scoring droughts which they've been having a lot this month, Dartmouth gets it.  The Beacons seem to play a lot better at home in the Clark Athletic Center then on the road, and won at home vs. Dartmouth last year, so I'll give the slight edge to the Beacons, but really, this could go either direction.  Definitely a game to watch on LEC.tv if your not going to be out at a game, and if you are, watch it on the archives when you get back.

Massey ratings:
RIC 60-49 82%
Eastern 67-59 77%
USM 64-34 99%
Boston 67-60 72%

[AllStar]

Keene State doubleheader at Eastern Connecticut postponed to tomorrow due to weather.

[7express]

Some time changes for this evenings games:
No time change currently in Plymouth/USM.  That game looks to be played as scheduled at 5:30 PM
Boston/Dartmouth is also going on tonight, however, that will start 90 minutes earlier then scheduled with the game tipping off at 4 PM instead of 5:30 PM.  Dinner with the LEC tonight.
RIC/Western & Eastern/Keene both postponed to tomorrow, with the times remaining the same both starting at 5:30 PM tomorrow evening.

[7express]

In the 2 scheduled games today:
Boston leads Dartmouth 30-25 at halftime.  Erika Bornemann has 7 for Dartmouth, Olivia Murphy leads all scorers with 10 for the Beacons.  A Chantel Jordan buzzer beater 3 for Boston gave the Beacons some sort of momentum going forward as the last 7 minutes was ALL Corsairs.  Including Chantel Jordan's 3 pointer, Dartmouth ended the half on a 15-5 run as Boston had as big a lead as 25-10 a little less than 2/3 of the way through the first.
USM leads Plymouth 35-20 at halftime.  Gorham night, so halftime is taking a little longer than usual as a bunch of elementary schools were playing during the half.  Rebecca Knight with 2 points & 7 minutes off the bench in her first game action since suffering an injury December 29.  Still don't know what it was, but good to see her back on the court.

[7express]

Boston won 70-55.  Erika Bornemann had 17 for Dartmouth who according to the boxscore didn't start the Corsairs.  I didn't turn it on till about the 8 minute mark of the first, so can't confirm that for sure, but if the Boxscore says so, it must be true.  Ashley Brown also had 12 points off the bench for the Corsairs.  None of the Dartmouth starters this game hit double digits, who's road woes continue to be a hinderance and what's holding them back.  Olivia Murphy was the only Beacon in double figures, but she had one of her monster games anyway, so it didn't really matter as she scored over half of Boston's points with 32 points & 19 rebounds.  I go back to what I said Saturday, if Murphy develops ANYTHING outside of 5 feet, she'll be unguardable.  When she has the ball at the top of the key on select Beacon plays, there's not a defender within 5 feet of her and she doesn't even look to take them.  The worst that happens is you airball it, and it goes back to the other team, big friggen deal, it's not like anybody's airballed a 3 pointer before, and she certainly wouldn't be the last to airball one either.  At least make the defenders challenge you at there, if you attempt them, at least it draws Bornemann or Colleen Kane out.  That's what makes Bornemann so dangerous is that she can make the outside 3 point shot, so the opposition has to challenge them.  I think Murphy could actually be better then Bornemann or Colleen Moriarty, but she has to develop an outside game over the summer.
USM defeats Plymouth 68-31.  No big surprise there.  Rebecca Knight in her first game since December 29 played 18 minutes, just in time for the Western game Saturday.  The high scorer for Plymouth was 6 which tells you a lot about how effective they were this game as that was tied with Savannah Miller & Kait Deering (who had all 6 in the first half when Plymouth was actually somewhat competitive trailing 35-20 at the half).  Megan Pelletier had 18 for the Huskies on 6-7 shooting and Gretchen Anderson had 14.  Erin McNamers had a quiet game: only 7 points, but did rack up 6 assists.  Plymouth shot just 4-27 in the second half and scored 11 points the final 20 minutes.

49-28 LEC; 2-0 on the day; 72-24 overall:

Wednesday games the 2 postponed games from Tuesday:
RIC @ Western 5:30 PM
Keene @ Eastern 5:30 PM, and keeping the same scores from Monday.

RIC 65 @ Western 48.
A team that gives up only 56.5 ppg against a team that only scores 56.1 ppg, and 50.8 in the conference??  Yah, I'll take RIC, the team playing the best basketball of any team in the conference, and unlike Western, they actually have a decent offense (64+ ppg) and Vandell Andrade has been a double double machine lately, and the team has no one that is able to guard her, and combine her in the front court with Cara Paladino and that's a recipe for disaster for the Colonials.  Of course with Western this year watch them win this than score like 20 points against USM Saturday, which got Rebecca Knight back Tuesday, and gets Eastern at home next Tuesday night and than @ Dartmouth the following Saturday, and than @ RIC the next Tuesday.  Doesn't look too good for the Colonials upcoming.
Keene 54 @ Eastern 67.
Don't think Keene is going to able to put up a lot of points.  Eastern knows they have a big game on Sat, may sleepwalk for a bit, but they'll pull it out.

[7express]

Eastern up 26-20 at half.  Brianna Leonard, Erin Brooks, and Jill Ritrosky each have 6 for Eastern.  Jovan Kingwood leads Keene with 9, and Amanda Petrow with 12 rebounds for the Owls.
RIC leads Western 32-23.  No live stats from this game.

[AllStar]

Eastern up 26-20 at half.  Brianna Leonard, Erin Brooks, and Jill Ritrosky each have 6 for Eastern.  Jovan Kingwood leads Keene with 9, and Amanda Petrow with 12 rebounds for the Owls.
RIC leads Western 32-23.  No live stats from this game.

This should work. http://www.wcsu.edu/sports/livestats/xlive.htm

[AllStar]

RIC 53-44
E CONN 71-66

[7express]

Thanks for that link All Star!

[7express]

Both of the conferences top 2 go into their Saturday showdown with 2 closer than expected wins:

RIC 53-44 over Western.  Steph Prusko stepped up for the Anchorwoman with 18 points, including the final 7 of the game for RIC, Cara Paladino had 12 points, and Vandell Andrade had 9 points and 11 rebounds.  Western attempted two 3 pointers all game.  Remember when they used to be a 3 point shooting team??  After trailing 32-23 at the half, Western started the second half on a 13-4 run to knot the game up at 36 with 12:15 to play.  However, RIC ended the game on a 17-8 run. 
Eastern survives Keene 71-66.  Kelsey Cognetta was one of 4 Owls in double figures as she lead the way with 15 points, and Amanda Petrow had 9 points and 16 boards for the Owls.  Jordyn Nappi had a game high 22 for Eastern, and Jill Ritrosky put up another double double for the Warriors with 15 points and 12 rebounds.  This was the Jordyn Nappi show in the second half.  On back to back possessions midway through the second half, Nappi nailed back-to-back 3's to turn a 2 point Eastern defecit into a 4 point Eastern lead.  After a Kelsey Cognetta 3 tied the game, the next possession down the court Nappi gave the Warriors the lead back with a 3 of her own.  And she wasn't done yet!  With 3:50 to play and the Warriors just up 1, she hit yet another 3 to give Eastern some breathing room up 4, and she basically ended the game with a 3 pointer (to put Eastern up 5 with 1:10 to play), and jumper with 34 seconds left to go back up 5 after a Cognetta layup cut it back to a 1 possession game, and for good measure added a free throw to put Eastern up 6 with 18 seconds left which iced it.

49-28 LEC; 74-24 overall

Standings:
1) Eastern 5-1 (12-4)
1) RIC 5-1 (11-5)
3) Boston 3-3 (11-5)
3) USM 3-3 (10-6)
3) Western 3-3 (9-7)
3) Dartmouth 3-3 (9-6)
7) Keene 8-7 (1-5)
7) Plymouth 2-12 (1-5)

1 game Tuesday:
Dartmouth @ Framingham 6:00

Dartmouth 76 @ Framingham 68.
This is Framingham's first game against the LEC this year, however they did play 2 games @ Dartmouth earlier in the season: a 21 point loss to Castleton and a 15 point win vs. Elms.  Dartmouth has been very unimpressive against the MASCAC this year 0-2 losing 2 "road" games with road in qutations because one of those road games was in the same city, but at a different school.  The Corsairs have a 5 point loss to Worcester state in a game they were without Kelsey Garrity in a game that took place at Clark, and a 13 point loss @ Bridgewater state, a game they played without Erika Bornemann, but they gave up 99 points in the process.  The team is finally healthy now, but this is still an atrocious road team, but I think they get it done.

[AllStar]

UMass-Dartmouth squeaks by Framingham State 51-48.  Not impressive.

[AllStar]

7express:

That link I provided for Western live stats should work for any games I believe, even if there is not actually a Live Stats option to click on.