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WBBALL: Judges falter again with game on the line
by Julie Ganz
Sports editor
Sports | 1/22/08
Posted online at 12:31 AM EST on 1/22/08
/ Last updated at 11:54 AM EST on 1/22/08
"[Guard Jessica] Chapin '10 had a nice pass to me," Breslin said. "I wasn't really thinking about the score. 'We need to get a stop on defense' is what I was thinking."
Brandeis would not collect another field goal until Rashford once again pulled them to within one point with 6:44 remaining, but that would be as close as the Judges would get. Unwilling to let Brandeis regain the momentum, Rochester went on a scoring surge, led by rookie guard Melissa Alwardt, who outscored the Judges 11-2 by herself over a minute and a half stretch at the end of the game. She hit a long two-point jumper to push Rochester's lead to 57-52 with 4:37 remaining, and then hit three consecutive three-pointers on Rochester's next three possessions, the last of which gave the Yellowjackets a insurmountable 68-56 lead with 2:51 remaining.
"Really it was two minutes of defensive breakdowns," Simon said. "If you have any mental lapses or you have any breakdowns, [Rochester] is so good at taking advantage of your mistakes and scoring off of them, and that's exactly what they did. It was a four-possession game where we made bad choices defensively, and they capitalized and scored on all of them."
Alwardt, who once hit a school-record seven three-pointers in one high school game, finished with 20 points off the bench, including four three-pointers. Chapin led the Judges with 16 points, eight rebounds and three assists, and captain guard Jaime Capra '08 added 12 points despite missing 11 of her 15 field goal attempts.
The Judges picked up their first UAA win Friday against Carnegie Mellon, led by 13 points from Breslin, which tied her career high. Capra added 12 points, and the Judges pounded the Tartans on the glass, owning a 45-32 rebounding advantage.
"We just knew we needed to run them and get them tired," Breslin said. "There are only nine girls on their roster, so they don't go very deep."
The Judges host the University of Chicago Friday at 6 p.m. and Washington University in St. Louis Sunday at 2 p.m. in their first two UAA home games.
Brandeis would not collect another field goal until Rashford once again pulled them to within one point with 6:44 remaining, but that would be as close as the Judges would get. Unwilling to let Brandeis regain the momentum, Rochester went on a scoring surge, led by rookie guard Melissa Alwardt, who outscored the Judges 11-2 by herself over a minute and a half stretch at the end of the game. She hit a long two-point jumper to push Rochester's lead to 57-52 with 4:37 remaining, and then hit three consecutive three-pointers on Rochester's next three possessions, the last of which gave the Yellowjackets a insurmountable 68-56 lead with 2:51 remaining.
"Really it was two minutes of defensive breakdowns," Simon said. "If you have any mental lapses or you have any breakdowns, [Rochester] is so good at taking advantage of your mistakes and scoring off of them, and that's exactly what they did. It was a four-possession game where we made bad choices defensively, and they capitalized and scored on all of them."
Alwardt, who once hit a school-record seven three-pointers in one high school game, finished with 20 points off the bench, including four three-pointers. Chapin led the Judges with 16 points, eight rebounds and three assists, and captain guard Jaime Capra '08 added 12 points despite missing 11 of her 15 field goal attempts.
The Judges picked up their first UAA win Friday against Carnegie Mellon, led by 13 points from Breslin, which tied her career high. Capra added 12 points, and the Judges pounded the Tartans on the glass, owning a 45-32 rebounding advantage.
"We just knew we needed to run them and get them tired," Breslin said. "There are only nine girls on their roster, so they don't go very deep."
The Judges host the University of Chicago Friday at 6 p.m. and Washington University in St. Louis Sunday at 2 p.m. in their first two UAA home games.
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