PHILADELPHIA – Despite scoring 26 points in the fourth quarter, the HFU women's basketball team could not overcome a slow start in a 53-68 loss to Georgian Court on Wednesday evening in the Campus Center.
Individual Highlights
- Taylor Hinkle (Chalfont, Pa./Central Bucks South) tied for a game-high with 15 points off the bench
- Lindsay Tretter (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Wood) joined her double-figures with 10
- Moe Moore (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) led Holy Family with seven rebounds and five assists, while her three steals were one shy of Carolyn Prevost's (Belle Mead, N.J./Montgomery) team-high
- The four steals were a career-best for Prevost, who fell one point shy of making it three Tigers in double-figures
- Jessica Riepe (Marlboro, N.J./Marlboro) added eight points off the bench
Inside the Box Score
- Led by Hinkle and Riepe, Holy Family's bench nearly doubled up the Lions' 25-13
- The Tigers also had a 17-6 edge in offensive rebounds, but GCU would shoot over 50.0 percent from the field, 27-of-50, while outscoring HFU 26-6 in fastbreak points
How it Happened
First Quarter
- An Anjelai Hayes (Woodbury, N.J./Woodbury) 3-pointer capped five unanswered to put HFU up 5-2 3:14 in, but GCU came back with the 11 points
- Riepe hit a trifecta and Prevost made a free throw, but the Lions also scored four in a row for a second eight-point lead, 9-17, after 10 minutes of play
Second Quarter
- Neither team scored for the opening 3:25 of the second, with Georgian Court finally finding the basket for its first double-digit advantage
- Tretter's triple began another run of five in a row, which ended with two Moore foul shots, but the Lions closed the half on a 7-2 surge for a 10-point cushion, 16-26, entering the locker room
Third Quarter
- Georgian Court then scored the first five points of the third quarter to pad a lead that would stay in double-figures for the remainder of the evening
- An 11-1 stretch gave the Lions their largest advantage, 21-44, with 3:13 left in the third, before the Tigers scored the final six points of the stanza
Fourth Quarter
- Despite the 26-point period, HFU could only get as close as 12 twice
Up Next
Holy Family will look to bounce back with a 1 p.m. tip at Bloomfield on Saturday.
