Boxscore
IUP played its first game in 12 days and rolled to a 73-42 victory over host Goldey-Beacom Thursday in Wilmington, Del., evening its record at 4-4 on the year.
Katelyn Marshall (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) reached double figures for the second straight game and led the Crimson Hawks with 15 points.
Vianca Tejada (Pennsauken, NJ/Cherry Hill East) tallied 11 and
Eryn Withers (Burtonsville, Md./Springbrook),
Lacey Claar (Imler, Pa./Claysburg-Kimmel) and
Brianna Johnson (Fairfax, Va./Oakton) each had nine as all 10 available players scored.
Claar also grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds and dished out seven assists to move into sixth place in school history with 318, two behind fifth-place Leah Simmons. Claar is now 47 points away from becoming the 19th IUP woman to reach the 1,000 plateau.
IUP shot 44.4 percent from the field, including 9 of 24 from 3-point distance, and limited the Lightning (5-6) to 22.6 percent (14 of 62). Goldey-Beacom also missed 12 of 22 free throw tries and committed 24 turnovers to only 15 for the Crimson Hawks.
Tejada and
Sarah Pastorek (Johnstown/Bishop McCort) added seven rebounds each with Pastorek also posting four assists, two blocked shots and a pair of steals. Withers had three of IUP's 14 thefts.
Devonne Richardson led the Lightning with 15 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. No other Goldey-Beacom player finished with more than six points.
IUP scored the first 11 points of the game, including 3-pointers by Marshall, Claar and Tejada, and held the Lightning off the board until almost six minutes expired. The Crimson Hawks led by as many as 16 in the first half, building a 23-7 cushion at the 9:22 mark on two free throws by Marshall.
Goldey-Beacom pulled within nine at halftime before IUP opened it up again at the outset of the second half, going on a 6-0 run over the first four minutes of the period to take a 37-22 lead on a layup by
Amber Dubyak (Hastings, Pa./Cambria Heights).
The Lightning briefly made it 37-27 a minute and a half later, but the Crimson Hawks were never seriously threatened after scoring 13 of the next 15 points and seeing their margin hit 20 for the first time when a jumper by Withers made it 50-29 midway through the half.
IUP is back in action Jan. 3-4 with its first set of PSAC crossover games at Bloomsburg and Mansfield. The Crimson Hawks host Eastern Division opponents East Stroudsburg and Kutztown Jan. 8-9.
