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Wellesley
Snaps Three Game Win Streak with Loss to Tufts
BOX SCORE
MEDFORD,
Mass. - For the second time in three days, the Tufts University
women's basketball team dominated a non-conference opponent at
home with a 90-45 victory over Wellesley
College on Saturday afternoon. The Jumbos (6-1), who won their
sixth straight game, built a 24-point halftime lead and extended
it to beyond 50 points in the second half.
Tufts was led by four players in double
figures. Junior Khalilah Ummah (Litchfield, ME) scored
15 points on 7 for 8 field goal shooting. Senior Valerie
Krah (Mountain Lakes, NJ) netted 14 points, including
four three-pointers. Senior co-captain Libby Park (Massena,
NY) added 13 points and sophomore Stacy Filocco
(Olney, MD) 10 as Tufts finished the game with a 53.8
shooting percentage (35/65). The Jumbos had routed Simmons in their
home opener on Thursday, 82-50.
Wellesley, which saw a three-game winning
streak end, fell to 3-6 overall. Sophomore Jessica Duff
(Milton Abingdon, UK) was the game-high scorer with 21
points and added three steals.
Wellesley’s
last lead was 6-5 on a jumper by Duff at 16:12 of the first half.
The Jumbos then scored
the next 21 points to take a commanding 26-6 lead on a three-pointer
by Filocco at 7:28. During the run, Krah drained two three-pointers,
Ummah scored six points and Filocca had five. The closest that
the visitors would get the rest of the way was 17 points, 31-14,
on a free throw by Duff with 2:35 remaining in the first half.
Tufts
led 40-16 at the break, with Krah accumulating 12 points and
four assists in the first 20 minutes.
Park scored eight points in the first half for the Jumbos. Duff’s
seven points and six by sophomore Julia Thomas (Concord,
CA) with four rebounds paced Wellesley in the first half.
The Jumbo lead reached 30 points (50-20)
on a three-pointer by senior guard Taryn Miller-Stevens
(Avon, CT) at 16:17 of the second half. It grew to 40
points on a pair of free throws by Park with 9:32 remaining in
the second half. The margin got as high as 51 points twice, including
85-34 following a lay-up by sophomore Katie Puishys (Huntington
Beach, CA) with 4:10 to go.
The
team’s 53.8 field goal percentage
was its best in over two years since they opened the 2004-05 season
by shooting a 56.5 mark (35/62) during an 88-23 victory against
Bryn Mawr. Tufts’current six-game winning streak is their
best since they opened that 2004-05 campaign with seven straight
wins.
At the other end of the floor on Saturday,
the Tufts defense held Wellesley to 32.6 percent shooting (14/43)
and benefited from 26 visitor turnovers (15 in the first half).
The Jumbos won the battle of the boards, 38-27. Sophomore Kimberly
Moynihan (West Hartford, CT) dropped a stat line of seven
points, five rebounds, three assists and two blocks. Miller-Stevens
finished with nine assists.
First-year Katie Martore (Great
Falls, VA) scored six points with seven rebounds and
five steals for Wellesley.
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