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Lady
Quakers win NCAA Championship
Team
wins first-ever NCAA Tournament Title
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The 2003-04 National Champion -- Wilmington College Lady Quakers!!! |
(WC
Press Release) VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (March 20, 2004) The Wilmington
College Lady Quakers picked up the schoolıs first-ever NCAA Team
Title with a 59 to 53 victory over the Polar Bears of Bowdoin College.
The
Green and White jumped out quickly in the game, opening a 9-2 lead
with 15:23 to play in the half before the hosts recorded a field
goal. Bowdoin rattled off eight straight points to take a one-point,
10-9 lead.
Over
the next four minutes the lead changed hands four times before the
Polar Bears used a 9-0 run to take a six-point lead with 7:15 to
play in the half.The
Lady Quakers clawed their way back to within three, but an Eileen
Flaherty lay-in with 23 seconds in the half sent the team into the
locker room with a five-point deficit.
In
the second half the Lady Quakers trailed by as many as nine before
rallying for the six-point win. Tara Rausch, the Most Valuable Player
of the Tournament led the way with a game-high 19 points while Amy
Kincer added 10. Emily Cummins scored nine points as Sam Hood chipped
in seven.
A
trio of Lady Quakers, Kincer, Rausch and Siobhan Zerilla each pulled
down double figure rebounds, Zerilla and Rausch with 11 and Kincer
with 10. Hood, just a freshman, dished out six assists while Kincer
gave out five.
Bowdoin
was led by Eileen Flaherty who scored 14 points, while Lora Trenkle
chipped in a dozen. Justine Pouravelis pulled down a game-high 12
rebounds while Trenkle dished out eight assists.
With
the win, the Lady Quakers pick up the first ever team National Championship,
and the first for the Ohio Athletic Conference since Capital won
it all in 1995.
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