Hi Folks,
We had a very successful weekend to finish off the fall
portion of our schedule, recording road wins against Laurier and Waterloo. Further, we hosted our ID/Training Camp on
Sunday, with more than a dozen highly skilled athletes in attendance.
Congratulations to Andrea
Priamo who was selected as the Queen’s
Athlete of the Week for her performances against McMaster and Brock (info
was released just after my last Newsletter).
What does the NBA
All-Star weekend have to do with our basketball team? See below for details.
Queen’s 64 – Laurier 61 (Jenny
Wright tops the 1,000 point marker)
Continuing in what seems to have become a tradition of very
close games against Laurier, this game featured 17 lead changes, 9 tied scores,
and neither team ever gaining more than a 5 point advantage. The pace of the game was more to our liking
as we ended up with 82 shots from the floor – the first time we have topped 80
shots in a while. However, our finishing
was still not where we would like it to be, converting only 29 of those shots
(35%). We lost the opening quarter 17-19
but then narrowly won the next three, 17-14, 17-16 and 13-12 for the 3 point
win. We had a very balanced scoring
attack with 5 players in double digits, led by Robyn Pearson with 12 points and 13 rebounds. Jenny Wright, Emily Hazlett,
Abby Dixon and Marianne Alarie all had 10 points.
Jenny finished the game with 1004 points to her credit over her 4 ½ seasons
with the Gaels, securing third place on
the Queen’s all-time scoring list.
Queen’s 84 – Waterloo
69
We opened the game with what appeared to be a more relaxed
shooting form leading to a 24 point quarter (to Waterloo’s 18) on 9 of 19
shooting (47%). Our concern, however,
was in surrendering the 18 points. While
our shooting percentage dropped to 30% in the second quarter, and Waterloo
rose, we still managed to outscore them 16-14 to go into half with an 8 point
lead, 40-32. It was the third quarter
(which had caused us some problems in the past) that actually blew the game
wide open as we converted 13 of our 16 shots from the floor (81%) en route to a
31 point outburst, essentially sealing the game. Four players hit double digits with Jenny Wright finishing with a game high
19 points, followed by Abby Dixon
with a double-double of 16 points and 10 boards. Emily
Hazlett and Marianne Alarie each
added 13 points. With her 19 points Jenny now has 1023 on her career, just
32 points shy of Liz Boag (2010-2015)
who sits in second place with 1055. Brittany Moore (2007-2012) sits
comfortably as the all-time leading scorer in Queen’s history (men or women)
with 1,652.
Congratulations to Jenny
Wright as she was selected as the Queen’s
Athlete of the Week for her performances this weekend.
Queen’s to be a part
of the NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto
As you may know, Toronto is the site of this year’s NBA
All-Star weekend, and we have been selected to be a part of the
festivities. We will play our league game
against the Windsor Lancers on
Saturday February 13, 2016 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto as part of the activities
surrounding the 2016 NBA All-Star Game. Game time is 4:00pm. More details
to come in the next few weeks.
Our fall schedule is now complete and we sit atop the East Division
with a 6-1 record. We return to league
play in mid-January on the road against division rivals, Toronto and Ryerson.
Have a great week!
Dave.
