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Celia Rader scored a team-high 18 points in King's exhibition loss at Division I Colgate

Women's Basketball Falls to Division I Colgate in Exhibition Game

11/3/2011 9:02:00 PM

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

KING'S WOMEN'S BASKETBALL FALLS TO DIVISION I COLGATE IN EXHIBITION GAME

Celia Rader
HAMILTON, NY -- NCAA Division I Colgate University placed four players in double figures and shot 55.7 percent from the field and 56.5 percent from three-point range as the host Raiders posted an 85-51 victory over visiting King's College in a pre-season exhibition game Thursday night in Hamilton, NY.

The contest served as the final tune-up for the Lady Monarchs, which scrimmaged Lackawanna College last week. King's will officially open its season November 15 with a 7:00 p.m. home matchup against Mount Aloysius College in Scandlon Gymnasium.

In the first half, Colgate started out strong, building a 15-5 at 13:31 following a short jumper by Carole Harris, a traditional three-point play from Kelly Reed and a driving lay-up by Jhazmine Lynch.

King's close the gap to four points, at 22-18 at the 10:13 mark on a pair of Celia Rader foul shot and again at 24-20 on a basket by Samantha Simcox with 7:50 remaining in the first half. Colgate then answered with a 7-0 run to take a 31-20 lead on a three-pointer by Lynch with 6:15 on the clock.

Samantha Simcox
The Raiders' lead grew to 35-22 after buckets by Steph Schultz and Lauryn Kobiela with 5:14 left in the half, but Rader was fouled shooting a three-pointer and made all three charity tosses to bring the Lady Monarchs to within 35-25 with 5:03 to go.

From there Colgate closed out the opening stanza with a 16-6 run to take a 51-31 lead at the half.

Rader had 13 points for King's at the break to lead all scorers while Simcox and Katlin Michaels added five and four points respectively. Lynch and Kobiela topped Colgate with 11 points each at the half while Catherine Lewis added 10.

Colgate scorched the nets in the first half, making 60.6 (20-33) percent of its shots from the field and 69.2 (9-13) from three-point range over the first 30 minutes of play. King's shot 33.3 (9-27) from the floor and 37.5 (3-8) percent from three-point range.

In the second half Colgate continued its hot shooting, outscoring King's 17-3 over the first 8:46 of the final period to build a 68-37 advantage. After a Paige Carlin basket for King's, Kelly Korkowski made back-to-back buckets for the Raiders to stretch the lead to 72-39 with 9:21 left in the contest.

King's continued to battle and used a 10-3 spurt to cut the Colgate lead to 75-49 with 3:45 to play after baskets from Ashley Davies and Brittany Muscatell, along with three-pointers by Abby Malloy and Rader.

But Colgate responded by scoring 10 of the last 12 points of the game to close out the scoring.

Lewis topped Colgate with 18 points on 7-8 shooting from the field and 4-5 from three-point land. Kobiela and Lynch tallied 13 points each while Mariah Jones chipped in with 10. Colgate made 33-of-60 shots from the field and finished the game connecting on 12-of-22 shots from long range.

Rader paced King's with 18 points as the lone scorer to reach double figures, including 3-of-5 shots from three-point range. Simcox added eight points and four rebounds. Malloy and Michaels tallied five points each while Muscatell and Carlin netted four each. Michaels posted a team-high four assists while Davies chipped in with four boards.

King's made 28.3 (17-60) percent of its shots from the field and 35.7 (5-14) shots from three-point land. The Lady Monarchs were outrebounded 40-31 in the game while the Lady Monarchs committed 21 turnovers, compared to 19 for Colgate.


COLGATE 82, KING'S COLLEGE 51

KING'S COLLEGE (0-0)
Celia Rader 5-13 5-5 18; Samantha Simcox 2-6 3-5 8; Katlin Michaels 2-10 1-2
5; Abby Malloy 1-4 2-2 5; Paige Carlin 2-10 0-0 4; Brittany Muscatell 2-3
0-0 4; Marissa Manning 1-7 1-2 3; Ashley Davies 1-2 0-0 2; Lindsay Atchison
1-3 0-1 2; Alicia Hayes 0-0 0-0 0; Meagan Boccio 0-1 0-0 0; Molly Dahl 0-0
0-0 0; Jessica McHugh 0-1 0-0 0; Nina Magan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-60 12-17
51.

COLGATE (0-0)
Lewis, Catherine 7-8 0-0 18; Kobiela, Lauryn 6-9 0-0 13; Lynch, Jhazmine 5-6
1-2 13; Jones, Mariah 3-4 1-2 10; Korkowski, Kelly 4-6 0-0 8; Harris, Carole
3-7 0-0 6; Schultz, Steph 2-4 0-0 4; Reid, Kelly 1-3 2-3 4; Repoli, Missy
1-4 0-0 3; Green, Candice 1-8 0-0 3; Ward, Rebekah 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-60
4-7 82.

King's College................ 31 20 - 51
Colgate......................... 51 31 - 82

3-point goals--King's College 5-14 (Celia Rader 3-5; Samantha Simcox 1-1; Abby Malloy 1-3; Ashley Davies 0-1; Jessica McHugh 0-1; Paige Carlin 0-2; Katlin Michaels 0-1), Colgate 12-22 (Lewis, Catherine 4-5; Jones, Mariah 3-4; Lynch, Jhazmine 2-2; Kobiela, Lauryn 1-1; Repoli, Missy 1-3; Green, Candice 1-6; Ward, Rebekah 0-1). Fouled out--King's College-None, Colgate-None. Rebounds--King's College 31 (Samantha Simcox 4; Ashley Davies 4), Colgate 40 (Reid, Kelly 6). Assists--King's College 8 (Katlin Michaels 4), Colgate 23 (Green, Candice 7). Total fouls--King's College 11, Colgate 13. Technical fouls--King's College-None, Colgate-None. A-123
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