Dec. 30, 2006
Final Stats
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Marist women's basketball team (9-4) suffered an 86-60 loss to #1/#1 Maryland (15-0) in the championship game of the Terrapin Classic on Saturday. Red-shirt sophomore guard Julianne Viani (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and senior point guard Alisa Kresge (Holmdel, N.J.) were named to the All-Tournament team. Viani averaged 13 points in the tournament's two games, while Kresge totaled 14 assists against no turnovers.
Red-shirt junior center Meg Dahlman led the Red Foxes with 12 points, hitting six of her seven free-throw attempts. Viani had 11, her eighth consecutive game of at least 10 points. Freshman forward Lynzee Johnson (Xenia, Ohio) had a career-high nine points in seven minutes off the bench, hitting three of her four field-goal attempts, her only three-point attempts, and both of her free-throw attempts. Freshman forward Rachele Fitz (Seven Hills, Ohio) and junior guard Courtney Kolesar (Concord, Ohio) added six points apiece off the bench.
Maryland scored the game's first two points on a basket by senior guard Shay Doron just six seconds in, but Marist answered with a three-pointer by junior forward Sarah Smrdel (Mentor, Ohio) on the ensuing possession. The Red Foxes held the lead for the next three-and-a-half minutes, and were up by three points on two occasions (5-2 and 7-4). However, with 13:17 left in the first half, Maryland's Marissa Coleman drained a three-pointer to put the Terrapins up 15-12. Maryland would not trail the rest of the game, and Coleman's basket started the Terrapins on a 36-13 run leading up to halftime. From the 16:50 to 9:04 marks of the first half, Maryland hit 11 consecutive shots from the field.
Maryland's largest lead was 33 points, as the Terrapins took a 78-45 lead on a basket by Ashleigh Newman with 6:08 remaining. From then until the end of the game, the Red Foxes outscored the Terrapins 15-8.
The Terrapins had five scorers in double digits, led by Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood with 17 off the bench. Maryland also received 15 points from Marissa Coleman, 11 from Crystal Langhorne and Kristi Toliver and 10 from Laura Harper. Jade Perry added eight points and a team-high eight rebounds off the bench.
Marist shot 36.1 percent from the field, as compared to 51.9 percent for Maryland, which shot 63.0 percent in the first half. Maryland hit 10 of its 20 three-point attempts, while Marist was just 5-for-25. The Terrapins outrebounded the Red Foxes by a 42-24 margin. Marist had just nine turnovers, the fifth time this season the Red Foxes have had less than 10 turnovers in a game.
The other members of the all-tournament team were UNC Greensboro's Jasmine Byrd and Maryland's Wiley-Gatewood and Toliver. The Terrapins' Coleman was named Most Valuable Player.
The Red Foxes return to action with a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference contest on Jan. 6 at Fairfield at 1:30 p.m. Both teams are 2-0 in MAAC play.
