#3 Daniel Webster College and #5 Becker College Advance to 2011 NECC Women’s Basketball Semifinals
2010-2011 NECC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
Quarterfinals • Tuesday, February 22
#6 Elms (9-16, 7-8) at #3 Daniel Webster (15-10, 9-7),
80-62 DWC
#5 Becker (10-14, 8-8) at #4 Newbury (11-14, 9-7),
73-71 BC
* Game to be played at Hellenic College in Brookline,
Mass.
Semifinals • Friday, February 25 (Hosted by Lesley
on the campus of Eastern Nazarene in Quincy, Mass.)
#5 Becker (11-14) at #1 Lesley (15-10, 13-3), 6:00
p.m.
#3 Daniel Webster (16-10) vs. #2 Mitchell (14-9, 11-4), 8:00
p.m.
Championship Game • Saturday, February 26 (Hosted
by Lesley on the campus of Eastern Nazarene in Quincy, Mass.)
Semifinal Winners, 2:00 p.m.
ATTLEBORO, Mass.- The #3 Daniel Webster College will advance to the 2011 NECC Women’s Basketball Semifinals hosted by Lesley after defeating #6 Elms College 80-62, while #5 Becker College upset the #4 Newbury College 73-71 in quarterfinal action tonight and will also advance to the next round of the 2011 tournament.
#3 Daniel Webster 80, #6 Elms 62
Box Score:http://athletics.elms.edu/sports/wbkb/2010-11/stats/ecw26.htm
NASHUA, N.H. – Backed by a balanced scoring offense that was
powered by a game high 25 points from junior Vanessa
Bosques (N. Windham, Conn.) and a triple double of 14
points, 10 boards and 13 assists from fellow junior Sarah
Paternostro (Glastonbury, Conn.), the third-seeded Daniel
Webster women’s basketball team rebounded from an early
12-point deficit and rushed past sixth-seeded Elms College, 80-62
in the quarterfinals of the New England Collegiate Conference
tournament Tuesday night at the Mario Vagge Gymnasium.
Bosques knocked down 10 of 15 from the field with three
three-pointers, while Paternostro, who became the first Eagle in
program history with a triple double earlier this season, tied her
career high for assists as the Eagles (16-10) advanced to the
semifinal round to be played this coming Friday night.
Daniel Webster will face second-seeded Mitchell College Friday at
8:00 p.m. on the campus of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy,
Mass. The first semifinal pits top seed and tournament host Lesley
University against fifth-seeded Becker College at 6:00 p.m.
Semifinal winners advance to the championship, slated for Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Alycia Gervais (Windham, Conn.) added 16 points for Daniel Webster, pulling down seven boards and adding three assists and four steals. Kirsten Murphy (Woodstock, Vt.) was huge off the bench, knocking down 5 of 7 from the field for 10 points. Junior Kacie Lang (Raymond, N.H.) added eight points including a pair of pivotal first half treys, and added four steals.
Junior forward Erika Murphy’s (Torrington, Conn.) 21 points, 11 rebounds and three steals paced a young Blazers squad, which finished 9-17 overall and graduated no seniors. Sophomore Jen Normandie (Westford, Mass.) added 10 points and six boards. Freshman Ellen Donohue (Southington, Conn.) chipped in with seven points and four assists.
#5 Becker 73, #4 Newbury 71
Box Score: http://www.beckerhawks.com/sports/wbkb/2010-11/files/BCW25.XML
BROOKLINE, Mass.-Becker College freshman Haley Ooms (Valatie, N.Y.) drained 17 of her game-high 24 points in the second half as the Hawks erased an eight point deficit to defeat Newbury College, 73-71 in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) quarterfinals, Tuesday evening.
The Nighthawks jumped out in front early, taking a commanding 14-7 lead eight minutes into the contest. Junior guard Morganna Machado (Attleboro, Mass.) was red-hot from the field netting 12 points with half of them coming from beyond the arc. Machado gave Newbury their largest lead of the contest, 16, draining her second trey of the half with 7:44 left in the period to give the Nighthawks the 25-9 advantage.
Becker would not be denied and began to chip away at the lead. Senior forward Heidi Miller (Sanborton, N.H.) cut the deficit to single digits with a good jumper sparking a 10-0 Hawks run with under six minutes left in the half. Newbury kept matching buckets for the remainder of the period and took the eight point, 36-28, lead into the locker room.
Sophomore forward Jasmine Bishop (Waterville, Maine) opened up the second half with a lay-up 22 seconds into the period to push the Newbury lead back to 10. Becker responded with a 14-2 run to take their first lead, 41-40, of the contest since 16:01 of the first.
Newbury junior guard Shayla White (Dorcester, Mass.) answered draining a long range trey to give the Nighthawks back the lead but it was short lived. Freshman forward Tatiana Mojica (Worcester, Mass.) answered right back, knotting up the contest at 43 with a lay-up.
It was a barn-burner for the next three minutes there were two ties and four lead changes. Following sophomore center Catherine O’Connell’s (Quincy ,Mass.) lay-up to re-gain the lead, Newbury did not surrender the lead for the next 10 minutes but Becker was not going to go away.
Down by seven with under four minutes left to play in regulation, Becker went on a 7-4 run, in which Ooms knocked down four of the five Hawk field goals, to pull within one of the lead. Following two Nighthawk turnovers, Ooms launched her fourth trey of the game, with 14 seconds on the clock, to send Becker on to the NECC semifinals. They will face the number one seed, Lesley University (15-10, 13-3 NECC) on Friday February 25th at 6:00pm in Quincy, Mass. on the campus of Eastern Nazarene College.
LINKS:
Daniel Webster vs. Elms Game Program
Newbury vs. Becker Game Program
Championship Packet with Directions
