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Dartmouth Women Top UNH in Thriller, 49-48
1/19/2010 9:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
HANOVER, N.H. - For the second straight game, the Dartmouth women's basketball team got a dramatic defensive stop to secure a 49-48 win over New Hampshire tonight.
Dartmouth benefitted from yet another balanced offensive outing and stifling defensive play. Brittney Smith dominated with a 14-point, 16-rebound double-double while Betsy Williams (Norwich, Vt.) was not far from a double-double herself with nine points and eight rebounds.
It was a defensive struggled throughout, and fittingly ended with a crack defensive stand by the Big Green. Down by one, New Hampshire had several chances to take the lead in the final 30 seconds. Coming out of a timeout, the Wildcats' Denise Beliveau drove the lane but was stifled by the Dartmouth post defense. The rebound popped out of bounds off a Big Green player and UNH had another shot at it with nine seconds to play.
UNH got the ball inbounds and Beliveau was coming around to drive the lane when Meghan McFee (Manchester, Conn.) made a heads up defensive play to pick-off the ball with four seconds on the clock. She was fouled and despite missing the front end of a one-and-one, UNH was unable to get off a shot on its final frantic trip down the court.
McFee had a solid game, tallying seven points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals in 26 minutes of work. Dartmouth was outrebounded by UNH, 41-38, but committed a season-low 12 turnovers to keep the game in check. New Hampshire's Kelley Flynn had 13 rebounds while Candace Williams added 13 points and nine boards.
Dartmouth opened the game on an 8-0 tear, driving to the basket early before UNH finally cracked the seal on its basket to make it 8-2 at 15:08. The Wildcats then hit back-to-back threes and just like that the game was tied, 8-8 at 14:00. That was the start of an eventual 15-0 UNH run to build a 15-8 advantage at 11:22.
Brittney Smith stopped the bleeding with a conventional three-point play to make it 15-11 at 11:09 but the Wildcats answered back with four more points. Margaret Smith stormed her way to five straight points, and got a key block on the defensive end to slice the lead to 19-16 at 9:49.
Those points started what was ultimately a 17-4 run, during which the Big Green took the lead back off a Michelle Meyer three to go up 22-21 at 5:23. UNH responded with two free throws by Diamon Beckford but Brittney Smith converted another three-point play and made a nice inside out pass to Louise Vanden Bosch (Kettering, Ohio) for a triple to make it 28-23 at 3:12.
New Hampshire had an impressive run in the final three minutes of the half, outscoring Dartmouth 9-four to tie the score at 32-32 at halftime. The Big Green shot a respectable 37.5 percent from the field and had just two turnovers in the first 20 minutes.
Dartmouth opened the second half on a 5-0 run with buckets from Sasha Dosenko and a Williams, who hit her first three in five games, to go ahead 37-32 at 17:41. The Wildcats kept pace with Dartmouth, however, and an offensive putback by Flynn made it 39-37 at 14:01. Williams extended the lead back to four on the next possession, but New Hampshire tied it up, 41-41, on a Beliveau layup with 9:31 to play.
Both teams struggled offensively down the stretch, combining for just 15 points after that. Dartmouth got the lead back to four, 45-41, on a Kelsey Byrd (Saratoga, Calif.) jumper at 7:29, but a Cari Reed three minutes later would eventually tie the game at 46 all with 5:38 on the clock.
Brittney Smith hit one of two free-throws and a Dosenko layup at 3:06 put Dartmouth ahead, 49-46 wit 3:06 on the clock. That would be the Big Green's last score of the game, but defense carried the day. Candace Williams pulled UNH within one with 2:37 to play, but neither team scored again in the dramatic closing minutes.
After turning the ball over just six times in the first 34 minutes, the Big Green coughed it up six times in the final six minutes. Dartmouth ultimately shot just 31 percent from the floor while UNH shot 31.6 percent.
The Big Green has a 10-day layoff before hosting Cornell and Columbia in its first back-to-back Ivy weekend. Cornell comes to town first on Friday Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.
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