USF Shuts Down Women's Basketball, 53-38
2/13/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - A cold-shooting first half proved too much to overcome as the Seton Hall women's basketball team fell to USF on Saturday, 53-38. Freshman Terry Green (Bridgewaters, N.Y.) led the Pirates (9-16, 1-11) with a career-high 15 points. Jessica Lawson paced the Bulls (14-10, 5-6) with 12.
USF scored the game's first six points before Green hit from deep with 15:18 on the clock, making it 6-3. The Bulls maintained control, using a 16-footer from Lawson to grab a 12-3 advantage and force a Seton Hall timeout less than three minutes later.
The Pirates struggles from the floor continued, with a missed three resulting in a USF fastbreak layup by Allyson Speed to push the lead to 18-7 and induce another Hall timeout at the 7:43 mark. It was a 15-point game when Green registered a three-point play to give the Pirates a spark, but Leondra Doomes-Stephens later sank a three-pointer with less than three minutes showing that made it 26-10. The Bulls took a 28-12 lead into halftime.
Seton Hall hit just 2-of-27 shots in the first half, including 1-of-14 from beyond the arc. Green had 10 of the Pirates' 12 points.
Speed hit her second of back-to-back three-pointers to make it 34-14 before KeNeisha Saunders added another from deep and forced a Seton Hall timeout at the 17:12 mark. Later, Lawson sank two free throws with just over ten and a half minutes remaining that extended the lead to 45-20. The Pirates could get no closer than the final margin of 15 the rest of the way.
Sophomore Kandice Green (Baltimore, Md.) also reached double figures for the Hall with 13 points. The Pirates finished the day shooting just 21.8 percent overall and a season-low 8.7 percent from three-point territory. USF ended up at 40.7 percent overall and 44.4% from deep to go along with a 45-34 edge on the glass.
The Pirates return to action next Saturday when they travel to Pittsburgh for a 2:00 p.m. game.
