Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Women's Basketball Looking for First Win in Sojka Pavilion
1/24/2003 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 24, 2003
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ABOUT TONIGHT'S GAME: The Bison enter this evening's contest looking for a second-straight Patriot League victory. Bucknell improved to 1-2 in the conference with a 74-65 victory at Navy last Saturday.
Army comes into tonight's game looking to bounce back from a disappointing 65-62 setback at Colgate last Saturday. The Black Knights have dropped two-straight games after falling at Binghamton, 63-49, on Monday.
THE ARMY SERIES: Bucknell holds an 18-10 lead in the 19-year history of the series. The two teams first met in February of 1984 with the Cadets taking a 69-54 victory.
Army proceeded to win the first five games of the series, and seven of the first nine, but since then, Bucknell has won 16 of the last 19 contests. Since dropping a 72-67 game in the first round of the Patriot League tournament in 1999, the Bison have claimed the last seven games.
Bucknell holds a commanding 10-3 lead in the series at home.
THE LAST TIME OUT: Seniors Molly Creamer and Kate Franks, and junior Desire Almind combined to score 66 of Bucknell's 74 points as the Bison picked up their first Patriot League victory of the season at Navy, 74-65. The win was BU's 10th-straight over the Mids in the series.
After a three-pointer by Creamer and a jumper by Navy's Courtney Davidson made the score 22-15 in Navy's favor, the Bison embarked on an 11-0 run that spanned just over five minutes to take a 26-22 lead. Franks had two of her five three-pointer's during the run, and freshman Jennie Ruth added four points.
A Bryanna Herring layup with 4:54 to go in the frame tied the game at 26-26, but Bucknell closed the half by outscoring the Mids 9-2, including six from Almind, to enter the locker room with a 37-28 lead.
Bucknell opened up a 13-point lead, 41-28, just three minutes into the second before the Navy defense went to work. The Bison were held scoreless for nearly five minutes, and the Mids forced four BU turnovers during that stretch, while also chipping away at the lead to get within one, 41-40. A Franks steal and layup broke the Orange and Blue drought, but Davidson answered with a trey at the other end to knot the game at 43-43.
The Bison pushed it back to a six-point game, but Navy came charging back with six free throws and a jumper to take its first lead since the first half, 51-49. It was short lived, however, as BU tied the game on two Creamer free throws, and regained the advantage on a Lindsey Geosits jumper with 6:30 to play. The Mids got within one after a Davidson three-pointer, but that was as close as the host team would get the rest of the way.
Bucknell was 9-of-10 from the foul line in the final 2:14 of the contest to come away with a 74-65 victory.
The Orange and Blue were hot from the field, shooting 58.7% for the game after a 66.7% showing in the second half.
THE LAST TIME THEY MET: Vicki Quimby and Desire Almind combined for the team's first 12 points as the Bucknell women's basketball team worked its way to a 38-25 halftime lead.
The Bison led by as many as 20 in the second half before a late Army surge cut the advantage to six, 68-62, with 4:08 to play. Bucknell scored 14 of the game's final 16 points, however, to come away with the 82-64 victory.
