POUGHKEEPSIE, New York - Marist Women's Basketball shot 50 percent of better in every quarter and led by as much as 23 in a 86-72 victory over Canisius on Thursday evening at McCann Arena.
The win elevates the Red Foxes to a 12-2 MAAC record, and a 19-4 overall mark. The Golden Griffins drop to 2-11 in conference and 3-19 in 2019-20.
Redshirt senior captain
Alana Gilmer led all scorers with 20 points on 9-12 shooting. Fellow captain
Rebekah Hand posted 18 points and seven assists. Redshirt senior captain
Grace Vander Weide (14 points, seven rebounds, and seven assists) and sophomore guard
Sarah Barcello (10 points) rounded out the Red Foxes in double figures.
Danielle Sanderlin paced Canisius with 19 points.
- Canisius took an early lead in the opening minutes, but Vander Weide intercepted a pass at the top of the arc and took it herself down the floor a layup at the 6:29 mark.
- Gilmer potted eight points in the first quarter, including a cutting layup from the low block off a pass from senior guard Hannah Hand.
- Rebekah Hand totaled seven points in the frame as well. Her layup with 2:44 left until the second put Marist on top 16-9, the highest lead in the quarter.
- She then stole the ball and sent it to Vander Weide to open the scoring 22 seconds into the second.
- Barcello took over with eight-straight points, two of them coming off three-pointers. Hannah Hand replaced and proceeded to hit her own triple, staking Marist to a 13-3 run over the course of five minutes and a 35-21 edge.
- With 30 seconds remaining until halftime, junior forward Willow Duffell nabbed a defensive rebound and passed to Vander Weide to begin the offense. The latter zipped it to junior guard Allie Best for a pull-up jumper outside the paint for a 45-28 lead into the break.
- As the clock read 6:52 in the third quarter, Vander Weide's stretch pass met Rebekah Hand, who zipped it to Duffell for a layup and a drawn foul.
- Marist hit 60 points midway through the period when Barcello shook off physical defense to hit an eight-foot floater from the left side.
- The gap extended to 67-44 at 3:24 in the third when Best connected with redshirt junior forward Molly Smith for a left-block layup.
- Fifty-five seconds into the fourth, Vander Weide heaved a pass to sophomore guard Kendall Krick underneath the hoop. She laid in the reverse layup while drawing contact, staking the Red Foxes to a 75-56 lead.
- Marist's field goal percentages by quarter are as follows: 8-16 (50 percent), (10-16) 62.5 percent, 12-18 (66.7 percent), and 6-12 (50 percent), good for a 58.1 percentage on the evening.
- The Red Foxes recorded 28 assists on 36 field goals.
- The starting five accounted for 80 percent of the team's scoring.
- Marist won the rebounding battle 32-26.
- Duffell led all players with nine boards.
- Vander Weide and Rebekah Hand's seven dimes led all players as well.
- The Red Foxes recorded 52 points in the paint.
- Gilmer passed Charlene Fields to move into fifth place in program history with 553 career field goals as a Red Fox.
- Vander Weide became the fifth Red Fox in program history to record over 400 career assists, joining Alisa Kresge, Nina Vecchio, Julianne Viani, and Beth Shackel.
- Marist is 7-1 this year when four or more players reach double figures.
- The Red Foxes have won nine games in a row over the Golden Griffins, and are 40-14 all-time in the season series, the third-most wins against a current MAAC opponent.
- Against Canisius and Niagara, Marist averaged 88 points per game in four regular season meetings.
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- Riding a five-game winning streak, Marist treks to the state capital to visit Siena at the Times-Union Center on Sunday, February 16 at Noon.
