Lady Warriors Fall to King's
Scoring Droughts Prove Too Much to Overcome
Box score

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. --- Costly turnovers and a rough-shooting opening to the first half proved a little too steep a hill to climb as the Lycoming women’s basketball team fell to King’s College 61-42 on Wednesday evening.  Lycoming drops to 5-16 overall, 1-10 in the Freedom Conference, while the Monarch’s move to 11-11, 6-5.

Miscues were plentiful in each half for Lycoming.  King’s used the Warriors’ 18 mistakes to rip off 22 extra points while the Lycoming managed only four scores off Monarch errors.  Lycoming’s bench did try to fill the gap with a tidy 15 points, but King’s non-starters did their jobs as well with 12 points from the pine.

Lycoming’s shooting woes were evident at the outset.  After opening with a 2-0 lead and extending to a 4-2 edge, the Lady Warriors’ hit a rut that lasted 10:31 in which the Warriors were outscored 18-1.  Freshman Marissa Hastings (Old Forge, Pa./Old Forge) broke Lycoming out of the funk with a jumper from just inside the arc to cut King’s lead to 18-7 with 6:21 in the half.

Lycoming finished the frame strong led by a pair of three-pointers from freshman Lauren Carey (Old Forge, Pa./Old Forge).  Carey has been strong over the past three weeks of play, but especially from the perimeter.  Her second trey tonight carved the Monarch’s lead to 24-17 with 2:12 on the clock.  Buckets were traded the rest of the half with King’s going into the locker rooms up 28-22.

King’s came out gunning in the second half as they scored eight unanswered points before senior Amy Kile (Muncy, Pa./Muncy) knocked down a jumper with Lycoming behind 36-24.  the Monarch’s kept pushing as they carried a 23-7 scoring run down to the 8:21 mark.

Lycoming caught a little burst from there in getting another long-distance score from Carey and a nice jumper from senior Stacy Lindeman (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall).  But King’s kept applying the gas as they opened a pair of 25-point leads down the stretch before six Kile free tosses closed out the night’s scoring.

Kile led the Warriors with 14 points including a 6-for-6 showing as the conference’s top free throw shooter.  Carey dropped in nine points thanks to her trio of three-pointers, and Hastings and fellow freshman Andrea Cooper (Hollidaysburg, Pa./Hollidaysburg) added six apiece.  Senior Danielle Kern (Lehman, Pa./Lake-Lehman) improved her season rebounding average to 7.9 boards a contest with 11 more rebounds, 10 of which came in the first half of play.

Beth Jordan led the Monarch’s attack with 15 points to go along with five rebounds.  Andrea Hochstuhl followed up nicely with a 13-point, 14-board double-double performance.

Lycoming is next in action on Saturday, February 11, as the Lady Warriors travel to DeSales University for a Freedom Conference match up.  Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. in Allentown.