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St. Mary's City, Md. - The nationally-ranked
Marymount (Va.) University women's basketball team notched their
third straight victory Wednesday evening as the Saints posted a
70-54 Capital Athletic Conference win over St. Mary's College of
Maryland.
More than half of Marymount's 70 points were a direct result of
St. Mary's season-high 33 turnovers. The Saints (18-1, 9-1
CAC), who are ranked No. 8 by the USA Today ESPN Division
III Top 25 Coaches Poll and No. 9 in the D3hoops.com Top 25,
tallied 38 points off the Seahawk miscues.
Junior guard Amanda Billy (Syracuse,
N.Y./Christian Brothers) paced Marymount with 18 points as
Billy went 9-of-12 from the free throw line.
Graduate guard Tara Eddy (Vienna, Va./James
Madison) was the other Saint in double figures as
Eddy finished with 10 points and a game-high five
steals.
After a 5-5 start to the game, the Saints used a 14-3 run to
boast their biggest lead of the first half, an 11-point margin with
8:23 remaining in the half. Six straight points from senior
guard Stephanie Saint-Aubin (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth
Seton) sparked St. Mary's to an 8-0 spurt, pulling her squad to the
closest they would be all game, 19-16 at 5:32. Marymount
responded with a 10-2 run to build its lead back up to 11 and head
into intermission with a 29-21 advantage.
Saint-Aubin carried the Seahawks (5-13, 4-6
CAC) with a game-high 26 points, including 15 first-half points, on
9-of-11 shooting while adding four steals. Freshman forward
Taylor Petrisko (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) helped
the home team edge Marymount in rebounding, 33-29, with a game- and
season-high nine boards while adding eight points.
Turnovers and personal fouls really troubled the Seahawks
tonight with two players fouling out, opening the doors for
Marymount to bolster its eight-point halftime lead to 23 points
with 5:43 remaining in the game. St. Mary's shot a
season-best 50.0% from the floor for just the third time this
season but it was not enough to overcome the miscues of the game.
The Seahawks will look to get back in the win column this
Saturday, January 30 as St. Mary's travels to Baltimore to face
Stevenson University in conference action at 2:00 pm. The
Seahawks earned a 64-53 triumph over Stevenson back on December 5
as freshman guard Pui Sham (Springfield, Va./W.
Springfield) poured in a season-high 22 points.
