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Become a fan of Ursuline Basketball on FacebookPAINESVILLE, Ohio - The Ursuline College basketball team hit 12 three-pointers and paired that with its best defensive effort of the Shannon Sword era in an 80-46 win over Davis & Elkins College on Thursday (Feb. 12) night.
Five days after hitting a school record 15 three-pointers, UC hit 12 triples and gave up just 15 field goals to the Senators (15-62 / 24.2 percent). Prior to Thursday, the 2014-15 team had allowed every opponent to score 62 points and since the start of the 2012-13 season, Sword's first as Ursuline's head coach, every opponent had reached at least 52 points against the Arrows.
The strong shooting and stellar defense on Thursday night resulted in UC's third straight conference win and ran the Arrows record to 6-18 overall and 5-8 the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. Davis & Elkins, losers in two straight, is now 11-10 overall and 7-6 in conference play.
Ursuline lost a six-point game in Elkins, West Virginia in the middle of January and the Senators looked to be on their way to another victory after jumping out to a 7-0 lead which caused Sword to call a timeout 2:33 into the game.
The Arrows responded in a big way and hit eight three-pointers in the first half. UC led by as many as 15 in the opening stanza after sophomore guard Delayne Seigla drilled a three-pointer to make it a 33-18 game with 3:23 left.
D&E wouldn't go away and chipped the lead to just four before freshman guard Camille Gist beat the first half buzzer to put UC in front 35-29 at the break.
It was a seven-point game with 16:16 left and then UC senior guard Brianna Woods went on a tear. She hit a jumper, a three-pointer and a pull-up jumper in succession to grow the lead to 14. On UC's next trip down the floor, she found freshman forward Camryn Hill for a lay-up and the Arrows kept rolling.
Woods finished with 13 points and had a season-high eight assists for the second straight game. Freshman guard Makayla Rosselot scored 13 off the bench and sophomore guard Erica Huber chipped in 12 points, nine rebounds, four assists and two steals.
Senior forward Emma Ricketts, who hit UC's first two-pointer after the team hit seven threes in the first 11:18, earned her team-best fifth double-double of the season. She had 10 points and 11 rebounds to go with three steals and a blocked shot.
Seigla hit four threes to match her career-high of 12 points. Hill and her classmate Madison Schroeder each had six points, one more than Gist who also added five boards and two steals. Fellow freshmen Kristen Curtis hit a three-ball and Kylie Owoc was active at both ends of the floor in her 10 minutes of action.
Ashley Bowles led D&E with 18 points while Sharmaine Baker, the G-MAC's leading scorer at just over 20 points per game, was held to 11 on 3-10 shooting. Bowles hit five three-pointers but as a team, the Senators were 7-24 (29.2 percent).
The Arrows did a tremendous job on the glass and won the battle of the boards by 12, 49-37. D&E had just four second chance points while UC scored 19 on putbacks. The UC bench bunch went for 34 points and D&E's reserves contributed eight.
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Ursuline will host
Alderson Broaddus University on Saturday (Feb. 14) at
John Carroll University's Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center. That game will tip-off at 6:00 p.m. and Max Radigan will call all the action live on the
Ursuline College Sports Network.
The Battlers beat the Arrows 96-88 when the two teams got together in West Virginia on Jan. 17.
Saturday has been designated as Alumnae Night and the program's annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game. Fans are encouraged to wear pink.
