Jan. 27, 2007
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- After taking an 11-point lead midway through the first half, the Navy women's basketball team allowed Colgate to control the remainder of the game and post a 55-44 victory over the Midshipmen Saturday afternoon in Alumni Hall.
For Colgate the win was just its third of the year through 22 games, while Navy suffered its third loss over its last four games to fall to 8-12 on the campaign. The win also improved the Raiders to 2-5 in league play, with the loss dropping the Mids to 3-4 at the halfway point of the league season.
"It was the same old story for us," said Navy head coach Tom Marryott. "We're having trouble scoring. We had a number of good shots, but we didn't make layups and we couldn't hit wide-open jump shots. Once we began to miss those shots, we started to press a little and we stopped being patient with the basketball, which led to mental errors on both ends of the court."
Navy scored 10 of the first 11 points of the game and eventually took a 16-5 lead with 10 minutes left in the half. At that point Colgate was just 2-of-14 from the field and had turned the ball over six times. The remainder of the half, however, saw the Mids struggle on both ends of the floor and Navy went into the locker room at intermission trailing 24-19.
The Mids would narrow the deficit down to one point early in the second half, but Colgate answered with a 14-5 run to take a 38-28 lead with 10 minutes left in the game. Navy would climb to within three points on a pair of occasions, but Colgate converted 10 of 12 free throws over the closing minutes to seal the victory.
Navy was its own worst enemy on the day. The Mids continually had very good looks at the basket, many of them coming from inside of five feet, but were unable to knock most of them down. Navy also shot just 10-of-17 from the foul line and was outrebounded 22-10 in the second half and 42-32 in the game.
Carly Meyer (Sr., Orlando, Fla.) led Navy in scoring with 14 points and narrowly missed a double-double with nine rebounds.
Navy's top inside presence of Kate Hobbs (Sr., Wexford, Pa.) was limited to only 20 minutes of playing time on the day due to foul trouble. Despite battling inside against Colgate's post players, Hobbs made just one trip to the free throw line (2-of-2) on the afternoon and converted 1-of-5 shots from the field before fouling out.
Picking up some of the scoring load for Navy's post players were Lindi Conner (Jr., Kingman, Kan.), who scored 10 points, and Betsy Burnett (Sr., New Holstein, Wis.), who tallied seven points.
Colgate was led in scoring by Melanie Cargle's 17 points.
Navy will play its final non-conference game of the season Tuesday night when the Mids play host to Winston-Salem State at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall.
