Lady Warriors Start 2006 in Strong Fashion
27-Point Victory Largest Margin of the Season
Box score

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming women’s basketball kicked off the 2006 season and its own Women’s Basketball Classic with a 71-44 trumping of Gallaudet University in the tournament’s first game on Friday evening.  The Warriors improve to 3-7 on the season while the Bison fall to 2-8.

Four Lady Warriors scored in double figures led by 17 points, five rebounds, and a game-high and team season-best seven assists from senior Stacey Lindeman (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall).  Fellow seniors Amy Kile (Muncy, Pa./Muncy) and Danielle Kern (Lehman, Pa./Lake-Lehman) followed up nicely with 15 points and eight rebounds from Kile and 13 points and five boards from Kern.  Freshman Andrea Cooper (Hollidaysburg, Pa./Hollidaysburg) dropped in 11 tallies to go along with her personal and team season-high 15 rebounds (seven offensive).

Three players topped the Bison score line at nine points apiece.  Johanna Karmgard added seven rebounds to her nine tallies while Jessica Salisbury added half a dozen boards to go along with nine points. Amanda Huser collected all nine of her points from behind the arc, but did so on a bleak 3-for-20 shooting performance (3-of-14 three-point field goals).

The Warriors came out of the locker room on fire as they ran out to a 12-2 advantage with less than five minutes gone.  Gallaudet closed the gap to seven at 16-9, but Lycoming sprinted from their in stretching to a 30-11 lead with 8:26 left in the half.  The Lady Warriors maintained their strong play for the remaining minutes, going into the intermission up 44-24.

Both offenses slowed in the second half, but Lycoming used its dominance on the boards and quick passing attack to keep the momentum in its favor.  The Warriors 54 rebounds marked yet another seasonal team-high set in this match up.

Lycoming dropped in 20 points from within the paint and converted 20 Bison turnovers into 21 Warrior tallies.  As has been the case all season, the Warriors were stellar from the foul line, canning 13 of 16 attempts for an 81.3 percentage, a mark higher than their league-leading 75.7 clip.

The Warriors look to ride tonight’s momentum into tomorrow’s Classic finale against Susquehanna University.  The Crusaders squared off with College Misericordia in Friday’s nightcap, defeating the Cougars 59-47.  Misericordia matches up with Gallaudet in the early game at 1:00 p.m. followed by the Warrior-Crusader showdown at 3:00 p.m.  All games are in Lycoming’s Lamade Gymnasium on Saturday.