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Solid Bench Play Helps Bucknell to 63-45 Victory Over Columbia in Women's Basketball
1/24/2006 7:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 24, 2006
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Jacquie Seawright (Olton, Texas/Olton) scored a game-high 14 points and grabbed six rebounds off the bench and Ashton Sprouse (Dayton, Ohio/Archbishop Alter) added a career-high 10 points also in a reserve role to help lead the Bucknell women's basketball team to a 63-45 victory over Columbia in a non-league game at Sojka Pavilion Tuesday evening.
The Bison bench tallied a total of 33 points, buoyed by Seawright and Sprouse. Corrine Keller (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Athena) added six points off the bench. The Lions, who did not have a player in double figures, received just 13 points from their bench with no reserve player tallying more than two points.
Bucknell, which made 41.9 percent of its field goals, opened the game making its first five shots, and 13 of 19, to build a 31-16 lead 12 minutes into the first half.
Seawright put the Bison up 34-18 when she connected on her third consecutive 3-pointer. She worked her way around the key, making the first from the right corner, then the top of the key and finally from the left corner.
A 3-pointer from Lauren Schober (Chicago, Ill./Regina Dominican) gave Bucknell a 39-20 lead, its largest to that point, with just over five minutes to go in the first half and it appeared as though the Bison would run away with the game. However, Bucknell would score just five more points over the next 10:41 as Columbia drew to within 44-30 before back-to-back baskets from Amanda Brown (Richardson, Texas/L.V. Berkner) and Seawright.
The Bison extended the lead out to a game-high 27 points following a layup from Keller that concluded a 15-2 run and made the score 59-32. The Bucknell defense, which forced 20 turnovers and held Columbia to 31.5 percent shooting, limited the Lions to just one field goal and 1-for-11 shooting during one 12-minute stretch in the second half.
Columbia (4-12), which lost its sixth consecutive game, scored the final seven points of the contest to close the final margin to just 18 points.
Schober was the lone Bucknell starter in double figures with 11 points. She also added three steals as the Bison totaled 12 in the game. Keller also registered three steals, while Seawright and Kristina Collymore (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) added two apiece.
Hope Foster (Washington, D.C./Dunbar) contributed to the defensive effort with five blocks. She also hauled in a game-high eight rebounds as Bucknell outrebounded Columbia 46-36.
Sarah Beato and Megan Griffith paced the Lions with nine points apiece. Beato and Brooke Carey tied for team-high honors with six rebounds apiece.
No Bucknell player played more than Lindsey Hollobaugh's (Loganton, Pa./Central Mountain) 27 minutes, and 10 of the 11 players on the roster registered at least 13 minutes of action. Columbia used 14 players in the game with none seeing more than 28 minutes on the floor.
The win helped Bucknell (11-7) eclipse its 2004-05 win total of 10.
The Bison will return to Patriot League play Saturday, Jan. 28, when they host Navy at 4 p.m. Bucknell defeated the Mids in Annapolis, Md., 88-51, three weeks ago.
