Box Score Panther woes continue against Owls
KEENE, N.H. – Junior Sara Laudano (North
Haven, Conn.) scored a career high 30 points, including six
three-pointers, to lead the Keene State College women's
basketball team to a 85-55 Little East Conference victory over
rival Plymouth State University Tuesday night at Spaulding Gym.
Winners of three in a row and five of their last six, the Owls get
back to the .500 mark (9-9) and improve to 3-5 in the LEC.
Plymouth State (7-10, 1-7 LEC) dropped its ninth straight game.
The Owls jumped ahead 15-4 and kept building on its lead in the
first half. Laudano heated up from the outside, hitting
three-pointers in succession from both corners and the top of the
key to put KSC up 27-14 with 8:12 to go in the half. Junior
Courtney Cirillo (Windsor Locks, Conn.) took over from there,
hitting back-to-back baskets to make it 42-23 with 2:28 to go.
Laudano, who knocked down four three-pointers, had 16 first-half
points. Cirillo scored all her 14 points for the Owls, who led
48-25 at the break. KSC shot 56 percent (19-of-34) from the
field in the half.
Keene State continued its offensive in the second half, Cirillo
found Laudano for a break-away lay-up to make it 60-30 at the 13:55
mark.
Junior Alicia Doucet (Manchester, N.H./Central)
and senior Amanda Kania (Manchester, N.H./West)
each scored 14 points to lead the Panthers. Kania, who hit
all eight of her free throws, had a team-high seven rebounds.
Sophomore Sam Monohon (Auburn, N.H./Manchester
Trinity) also chipped in with 10 points off the Panther bench.
Both teams return to the court with non-conference games on
Thursday, Keene State is at Middlebury College (6 p.m.) and the
Panthers travel to Johnson State (5:30 p.m.)
(Courtesy of Keene State Sports Information)
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