Box Score Panthers outlast Lyons in title game
NORTON, Mass. – Freshman guard
Sammie Walker (Manchester, N.H./Central) recorded
a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and junior forward
Alicia Doucet (Manchester, N.H./Central) poured in
a career-best 32 points Saturday afternoon as the Plymouth State
University women's basketball team outlasted Wheaton College
in double overtime, 78-75, in the championship game of
Wheaton's Tip-Off Tournament in Emerson Gymnasium.
The Panthers (2-1) needed two overtimes to pull out the win and
offset the near heroics of Wheaton sophomore Jeana Trimboli
(Norwalk, Conn.), who finished with 24 points. After Doucet
made a basket with 36 seconds remaining in regulation to put the
visitors up three, 62-59, Trimboli nailed a three-pointer with 9.6
seconds left to force overtime. After Doucet sank a pair of free
throws with seven second left in the first overtime to again put
PSU ahead by three, Trimboli drained a buzzer-beating triple
to push a second extra session. And after Doucet and PSU
junior Michaela Galvin (Windham, N.H./Salem) made
two free throws each in the final 30 seconds of the second
overtime, the Panthers held on for the win when Trimboli
couldn't make a third long-range buzzer beater.
Walker, who made three baskets from three-point range and also
collected four steals, was named Tournament Most Valuable Player,
and Doucet, who was 11-of-28 from the field and 10-of-13 from the
free throw line, was an All-Tournament Team selection. Galvin
finished with 15 points and six assists, senior Amanda
Kania (Manchester, N.H./West) added seven points and 10
boards, and sophomore Colleen O'Hara (Otego,
N.Y./Unatego Central) added six points, eight rebounds and five
steals.
Junior Gabbie DePalo (Rumson, N.J.) was named to the all-tournament
team for Wheaton, which dropped to 1-2.
PSU had a double-digit advantage much of the first half, leading by
as many as 14 points (34-20) with six minutes remaining before
Wheaton rallied to cut the margin to five points, 39-34 at the
intermission. The Lyons opened the second half with
back-to-back threes to take the lead, but the teams traded points
and the lead most of the second half before Trimboli sent the game
into overtime for Wheaton.
Plymouth State is back on the court Tuesday with a non-conference
game at Castleton (5:30 p.m.)
(Courtesy of Wheaton Sports Information)
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