Women's Basketball
February 26, 2006
SAINT ROSE ENDS LE MOYNE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON 67-58 IN NORTHEAST-10 CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND
ALBANY, N.Y. – Linsey Onishuk scored 20 points to lift Saint Rose to a 67-58 win over Le Moyne in the Northeast-10 Conference Women’s Basketball First Round at the Daniel P. Nolan Gymnasium. The sixth-seeded Golden Knights (17-11) advance to the Northeast-10 Conference Quarterfinals, while Le Moyne’s season ends at 11-17.
Sophomore Kim Wagoner (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) scored 23 points to lead Le Moyne in the scoring column. Wagoner, who finished the season with a team-high 15.0 points per game, hit 12-of-12 from the free throw line. Senior Maureen Van Vorst (Middletown, N.Y./Minisink Valley) joined Wagoner in double figures with 10 points off the bench. The Dolphins shot just 32.1% (17-for-53 from the field, but converted 23-of-26 (88.5%) from the charity stripe.
Senior point guard Mary Lewis scored 15 points to join Onishuk in double figures for Saint Rose. Lewis also dished out five assists. Lewis, listed a 5-foot-4, pulled down a game-high nine rebounds as the hosts outrebounded the Dolphins 40-29.
The Golden Knights carried play at the beginning and the end of the game to avenge a 76-68 December loss to the Dolphins. Saint Rose opened the game with leads of 10-2 and took their biggest lead 16-6 on a pair of Emily Gottstein free throws with 12:43 left in the first half.
Le Moyne closed out the first half on a 13-3 tear over the last four minutes, 11 of which came from the free throw line to take a 34-30 lead into the intermission. Wagoner led the Dolphins with 13 points, six of which came on a perfect half from the free throw line. Wagoner’s six-of-six was part of a team effort of 17-for-20 from the charity stripe. Senior Andrea Pluchino (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) also went six-for-six from the free throw line.
The Dolphins led 48-42 on a Lindsay Carr (Bronx, N.Y./Preston) layup that came off a feed from Cierra Bartell (Middletown, Conn./Middletown) with 10:52 remaining in the contest, but a scoring drought of nearly six minutes allowed Saint Rose to turn the six-point deficit into a 52-48 lead. Lewis capped the 10-0 Saint Rose spurt with a pair of free throws at the 5:18 mark.
A pair of Wagoner free throws and a layup by freshman Vanessa Holden (Suffern, N.Y./Immaculate Heart) sandwiched around a Lewis layup pulled the Dolphins back within two points at 54-52 with 4:23 left. The Golden Knights scored the next five points to push the lead back to seven, then iced the win with seven free throws in eight attempts over the final 73 seconds.
Four of Le Moyne’s five starters and five of its top six scorers (points per game) are slated to return in 2006-07.
SAINT ROSE 67, LE MOYNE 58
LE MOYNE (11-17)
Kim Wagoner 5-15 12-12 23; Maureen Van Vorst 5-7 0-0 10; Lindsay
Ellis 3-4 1-2 7; Andrea Pluchino 0-0 6-6 6; Betsy Bordes 1-3 2-2 4;
Vanessa Holden 1-3 1-2 3; Kathleen Gladstone 1-7 0-0 2; Lindsay
Carr 1-7 0-0 2; Ann Belforti 0-5 1-2 1; Cierra Bartell 0-2 0-0 0.
Totals 17-53 23-26 58.
SAINT ROSE (17-11)
Linsey Onishuk 6-8 8-10 20; Mary Lewis 2-5 10-11 15; Petra
Kulhankova 4-5 0-0 8; Courtney Ludwig 2-3 0-0 5; Emily Gottstein
0-4 5-6 5; Julie Reilly 2-4 0-0 4; Ashley Anderson 2-7 0-2 4; Ariel
Davis 1-6 1-2 3; Dana Brown 0-3 3-4 3; Elisa Haggarty 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 19-46 27-35 67.
Le Moyne...................... 34 24 - 58
Saint Rose.................... 30 37 - 67
3-point goals-Le Moyne 1-11 (Kim Wagoner 1-4; Betsy Bordes 0-2; Kathleen Gladstone 0-2; Ann Belforti 0-3), Saint Rose 2-7 (Courtney Ludwig 1-2; Mary Lewis 1-3; Emily Gottstein 0-1; Elisa Haggarty 0-1). Fouled out—Le Moyne-None, Saint Rose-None. Rebounds-Le Moyne 29 (Lindsay Ellis 5; Kim Wagoner 5), Saint Rose 40 (Mary Lewis 9). Assists-Le Moyne 13 (Kathleen Gladstone 3; Lindsay Carr 3), Saint Rose 13 (Linsey Onishuk 4). Total fouls-Le Moyne 23, Saint Rose 20. A-189
