Roberts
Ousts Highlanders from AMC Playoffs
(Chili,
N.Y.)—The Roberts Wesleyan women’s basketball team led from the
very beginning and beat the Houghton Highlanders 72-53 in a
first-round American Mideast Conference (AMC) playoff game
Wednesday night.
Roberts hit a three-pointer right at the beginning and built a
double-digit lead less than three minutes into the game.
Houghton got within nine points (25-14) with 8:23 left in the
first half, but that was as close as they would come. The
Raiders led 39-25 at the half.
“We got behind early,” said Skip Lord, Houghton’s head coach.
“They really lit it up in the first half, especially from
three-point range.”
Roberts shot 7-12 (58 percent) from beyond the arc in the first
half.
It took Houghton more than three minutes to get its first points
of the second half, and by that point Roberts led by 19. The
teams played evenly for the rest of the game, but it was too
late for the Highlanders.
“The big difference was the rebounding, especially on the
offensive end,” said Lord. Roberts out-rebounded Houghton 49-35,
and had 18 offensive boards to Houghton’s nine.
Houghton got 14 points and 14 rebounds from Ashley Dupler, who
also had three blocked shots and four steals. Leah French had a
game-high 19 points, on 7-14 shooting, and had three steals as
well.
Roberts got 18 points apiece from Jackie Murphy and Erin Farney,
and 10 each from Jaslyn Lee and Aimee Kovinchick. Farney and
Kovinchick had 12 and 10 rebounds, respectively, while Murphy
pulled down nine.
The loss ends Houghton’s season, with a final record of 15-12.
