For Immediate Release
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL – 1.11.03
Contact: Christina Cracolici
Phone: (781) 283-2003
E-mail: ccracoli@wellesley.edu
Bobcats Hold Off Wellesley 69-64 in Overtime
WELLESLEY, CONN. – Carla Flaherty (Gorham,
Maine) scored seven of her game-high 20 points to lead Bates College
(7-2) to a 69-64 overtime decision against Wellesley College (5-5)
in a non-conference women's basketball match-up at Wellesley.
Flaherty connected on two jumpers and netted her third three-point
field goal of the game as Bates outscored Wellesley 12-7 in the
extra stanza for the win.
Trailing by 11 points at 52-41 with just over 10 minutes left to
play in regulation, Wellesley forced the game into overtime outscoring
Bates 16-4 for a 57-57 tie at the end of the second half. Sophomore
Bridget Harris (Newbury Park, Calif.) scored 14 of Wellesley's 16
points in the run, including a string of eight straight unanswered
points on a jumper and two three-point plays collecting the hoop
and the harm on lay-ups. Harris, who ended the game with 16 points,
eight rebounds and three assists, capped the Wellesley run with
her only three-pointer of the game to give Wellesley a 57-55 lead
with 25 seconds remaining, before Bates' Heather Taylor (Nobleboro,
Maine) netted a lay-up off of a Olivia Zurek (Arlington, Mass.)
assist as the clock ran down.
Zurek finished with a double-double on 15 points and 11 rebounds,
while Laura Nafe (Roland, Ark.) and Lauren Dubois (Beverly, Mass.)
chipped in with eight points a piece.
Wellesley's Erin Johnson (Westhampton Beach, N.Y.) had a team-high
18 points while Kelly Grover (Westbrook, Maine) finished with 16
points, nine rebounds, five assists and three blocks.
Wellesley returns to action on the road facing cross-town rival
Babson College in its NEWMAC opener January 21 at 7 p.m.
Bates (7-2) 69 OT
Price 0 0-0 0; Taylor 2 2-4 6; Nafe 3 0-1 8; Grossman 0 0-0 0; Flaherty
8 1-2 20; Zurek 6 3-5 15; Dubois 4 0-0 8; Hochadel 2 0-0 4; Whiting
1 2-2 4; Blakely 0 0-0 0; Golobski 1 2-4 4
Totals 27 10-18 69
Wellesley (5-5) 64
Carbonello 2 0-0 5; Romasco 2 0-0 5; Senecal 0 0-0 0; Harris 6 3-6
16; Weslander 0 4-4 4;
Kim 0 0-0 0; Grover 8 0-0 16; Johnson 5 6-9 18 Totals 23 13-19 64
Three-Point Field Goals: Wellesley - Carbonello,
Romasco, Harris, Johnson 2; Bates - Nafe 2, Flaherty 3
Halftime - Bates 38-32
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