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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL FALLS IN FIRST GNAC BID

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL FALLS IN FIRST GNAC BID
Posted: Jan 10, 2009

The Mount Ida College women's basketball team dropped a 75-41 loss in their first Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) match-up against visiting Norwich University in the opening game of Saturday's double header action.  The Mustangs fall to 4-8 overall, 0-1 in the GNAC. The Cadets improve to 8-4, 1-0 in the conference.

The hosts could only muster two points in the opening seven minutes of the first half while the visitors poured on the offense leading 20-2 at the 13 minute mark. After finishing off a 16-0 run, the Cadets continued their high powered attack.  The Mustangs tried to chip away at the deficit going on a 7-0 run cutting the lead to 11.   

But the Cadets caught fire and took over the first stanza finishing on a 10-0 run ahead 37-13 with 2:30 to go capped off on a lay-up by freshman Tara Stevenson (Watertown, CT/Holy Cross).  The squads would head into the locker room with the visitors leading 42-15. 

Leading by 29 in the start of the second half, the Cadets picked up right where they left off up 50-19 capped off on a three pointer by junior Erica Rate (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth).  The visitors eventually subbed in their entire bench for the remainder of the game with 17:43 to go in the second stanza. 

Although the Mustangs never gave up, it was all Norwich for the completion of the second leading by a game high 39 with 9:29 to go in the contest.  The Cadets eventually rode out the lead and took home the 75-41 victory, their first conference win of the season. 

Junior forward Cherie Parisi (South Attleboro, MA/Attleboro) led Mount Ida with 14 points and six rebounds while fellow junior Ashley Boyd (Hanson, Massachusetts/Hanson-Whitman) netted eight points with seven caroms and three blocks. 

The Cadets harvested two players in double figures, Rate tallied a team high 11 points and freshman Marie Girard (Stratham, NH/St. Thomas Aquinas) chipped in 10 of her own.  The Mustangs struggled from the floors shooting only 30 percent while the Cadets shot 47.7 percent. 

Mount Ida will have the entire week off and start the action back up on January 17, 2009 hosting St. Joseph's College (ME) on Lupus awareness day starting at 1:00 p.m.