Box Score Box
JANUARY 16, 2013
KING'S WOMEN POST 66-41 ROAD WIN OVER WILKES
WILKES-BARRE – The King's College women's basketball team opened the game with a 21-2 run and never looked back as the Lady Monarchs posted a 66-41 Freedom Conference victory over host Wilkes University Wednesday in the Marts Center.
With the win, King's improved to 11-4 overall and 4-1 in Freedom Conference play while Wilkes fell to 10-5 overall and 2-3 in league competition.
King's continued its supremacy over Wilkes. The Lady Monarchs have now won 29 of the last 30 meetings between the teams. Wilkes last victory over King's was a 65-61 win on January 29, 2009.
King's came out of the gates quickly and with the game tied at 2-2, the Lady Monarchs went to work.
Lindsay Atchison converted two foul shots before Celia rader buried a three-pointer for a 7-2 lead.
Molly Dahl then scored inside for the Lady Monarchs before Kaitlin Michaels scored seven straight points to push the lead to 16-2 at the 15:00 mark.
After a Wilkes miss, Rader drained another trey and Atchison followed with two more foul shots, capping a 19-0 run, giving King's a 21-2 lead with 13:03 left in the half. After Wilkes finally converted a pair of foul shot, Jen Fabian scored inside for King's and
Tara Zdancewicz added two shots from the foul line to stretch the score to 25-4 with 11:11 left.
Wilkes ended a 8:08 drought without a field goal when Elena Stambone hit a three-pointer at the 11:03 mark to bring the score to 25-7. King's would outscore Wilkes 10-7 the rest of the half to take a 35-14 lead into the locker room.
In the second half both teams had trouble finding the bottom of the basket early on. King's used its aggressiveness to get to the foul line but the Lady Monarchs made just one-of-five attempts, sandwiched around a bucket by Rader, to hold a 45-22 lead with 11:02 left.
King's would eventually extend the lead to 54-26 on one-of-two Atchison foul shots and a steal and lay-up from Rader with 8:05 remaining. King's began to substitute liberally and Wilkes went on a 6-2 spurt to cut the score to 56-34 after a three-pointer by Lindsey Chester with 4:10 to play. The Lady Monarchs upped the lead back to 25 points when Zdancewicz converted a traditional three-point play to bring the score to 59-34 with 3:04 left.
Rader topped King's with 18 points and is now within 61 points of reaching the 1,000-point plateau. Michaels followed with 15 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists while Atchison added 13 points and five rebounds. Zdancewicz contributed eight points while Dahl chipped in with six points and 13 rebounds.
Wilkes was led by Brown with 16 points while Stambone, who entered the game as the leading scorer in the Freedom Conference with 20 points per-game, was held to 11 points, including just two in the second half.
King's returns to action Saturday when the Lady Monarchs host Manhattanville College at 1:00 p.m. King's will also be hosting its annual Alumni Game at 10:00 a.m. in Scandlon Gym.
