Nov. 18, 2007

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy women's basketball team put together its most complete performance of the young season Sunday in recording a 65-58 victory over Rider in Alumni Hall. The win improves Navy's record on the year to 2-3, while Rider falls to 2-2 with the loss.

"We played a good 40 minutes of basketball," said Navy head coach Tom Marryott. "There are things which need to be corrected, but I thought we were pretty consistent in how we played."

The Mids held a 15-12 lead midway through the first half when Navy went on a 15-4 run to open up a 30-16 advantage with 2:27 remaining before halftime. Cassie Consedine (Fr., Bartlesville, Okla.) scored the final eight points for the Mids during the run as she connected on a pair of three-point field goals on back-to-back possessions before sinking a pair of free throw attempts.

Navy's defense held Rider to 2-of-11 shooting from the field while the Mids built the 14-point cushion.

Navy connected on nearly 44 percent of its field goal attempts during the first half to take a 32-20 lead at halftime, and despite cooling down to 29-percent shooting in the second half the Mids still were able to slowly open up an 18-point advantage with 7:18 remaining in the game. Rider would close the margin down to six points with just 19 seconds left in the contest.

The Mids entered the game turning the ball over an average of 26 times a game, but committed only 12 turnovers in today's game while forcing Rider into eight miscues with the ball. Both teams shot 35 percent from the field in the game and Rider made 22 field goals to Navy's 19, but the Mids converted 23-of-31 attempts from the foul line while the Broncs were 11-of-16 from the charity stripe.

Consedine, K.C. Gordon (So., Vienna, Va.) and Morgan Hill (So., Portales, N.M.) all scored 15 points on the afternoon for Navy. Consedine tallied 13 of her 15 points during the first half, while Gordon poured in 13 of her 15 points after halftime. Consedine also hauled in 12 rebounds to post her fourth double-double in five games this year. Additionally, Angela Myers (Fr., San Antonio, Texas) scored eight points, grabbed nine caroms and dished out four assists for the Mids.

Rider was led in scoring by Shaunice Parker's 12 points, with teammate Tammy Meyers adding 11 points and six rebounds.

After opening the season by averaging 43.3 points per game, Navy has scored 71 points in defeating Howard this past Wednesday and 65 points in today's win over Rider.

"We have been pleased with our defense throughout the season," said Marryott. "The key for us to start being successful was to have our offense catch up to our defense and over the last two games it has."

Navy will open a four-game stretch of road games Tuesday when the Mids play at Georgetown in a 7:30 p.m. game.