Women's Basketball Daily Update: December 28, 2007

Women's Basketball Daily Update: December 28, 2007

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Every day throughout the 2007-08 season, America East will provide a women's basketball update that features notes on that day's matchups as well as recaps of the previous days' action. Be sure to download the PDF for the complete daily update.

Recent Results

Thursday, December 27
Boston University 70, Georgia Southern 53 1

Junior guard Christine Kinneary fell one shy of her season high of 14 assists... Senior guard Cheri Raffo paced the offense with 16 points, while sophomore Aly Hinton finished with 14 points... The Terriers are now 2-0 against Southern Conference opponents.

Saturday, December 22
at Boston College 68, Maine 56

Rookie Tanna Ross paced the Black Bear offense with 17 points, including five treys... Maine led, 36-33, at halftime and held leads as high as seven points.

Vermont 78, at Manhattan 57
Sophomore May Kotsopoulos recorded 18 points, three assists and four steals... Junior Amy Rosenkrantz netted a team-high 20 points, and added four assists, two steals and six rebounds.

at Northeastern 82, Stony Brook 69

The Seawolves' bench pitched in 43 points for the game, or a little better than 62% of the total Stony Brook offense... Senior Aly Young set a career high with 21 points in 34 minutes.

Marist 75, at Albany 71
Senior Gia Sanders finished with 10 points and four rebounds... Sophomore Britney McGee netted 17 points and also recorded six rebounds and three steals.

at Hartford 54, #24 Michigan State 51 (CSN)
The Hawks improved to 2-0 all-time against ranked opponents at home and extended their home winning streak to 15 games... Senior Danielle Hood led Hartford with 19 points and eight rebounds.

Friday, December 21
Lehigh 68, at Binghamton 67 (2OT)

Senior Bearcat Laine Kurpniece finished with 22 points and 10 of 11 from the free-throw line, including the two game-tying free-throws at the end of regulation... Classmate Laura Sario scored 18 points and took down 10 rebounds for her first career double-double.


Upcoming Action


Friday, December 28
UMBC vs. Richmond 2 1 p.m.

Sophomore Carlee Cassidy has led the Retrievers' scoring seven times this season... Melissa Book is shooting a team-best .550 from outside the arc.

St. Francis (N.Y.) at Albany 7 p.m.
Seniors Gia Sanders and Kristin Higy have recorded double-doubles in the same game twice this season, at Indiana and last time out against Marist... Sophomore Britney McGee has led the Great Danes in scoring for two consecutive games now.

New Hampshire at Providence 7 p.m.
The Wildcats hope to pick-up their first road win of the season at Providence... New Hampshire has four players averaging double-digit points, led by sophomore Amy Simpson (11.9).

Boston University vs. VCU 1 7:30 p.m.
Boston U. will meet either Morgan State or host VCU in the second round of the tournament... It will be the second game in as many days for the Terriers who entered the tournament coming off a 16-day layoff.

1 VCU Tournament (Richmond, Va.)
2 University of Maryland Terrapin Classic (College Park, Md.)