University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
UNC Asheville
Holy Cross
Women Drop Consolation Game to Holy Cross
12.30.2007 | Women's Basketball
McFadden, who also chipped in five rebounds and three assists, paced a quartet of Crusaders (5-7) in double figures on the afternoon. Elizabeth Campbell had 14 points, eight of which came in the second stanza, and Alyssa May and Bethany O'Dell recorded 11 and 10, respectively.
Chioma Okoli led UNC Asheville (7-7) with a career-high 16 points. Ashton Barton earned All-Tournament honors with 15 points while Stacy Shepard and Lindsey Montgomery added 10 points to give the Bulldogs four players in double digits.
The Crusaders won the battle in the paint, 48-26, while also outscoring
Laura Aloisi's six assists and eight rebounds, both game highs, led Holy Cross to 17-8 and 49-34 advantages in the respective categories. The Crusaders also tallied 13 steals en route to forcing
Barton connected on a trio of three-point field goals in the game's opening 10 minutes, helping her team build a 24-16 lead at the midway point of the opening frame. Holy Cross used a 5-0 run to narrow the gap to three, 24-21, at the 7:53 mark, but
An 8-0 run by the Crusaders again cut the gap to three with less than three minutes to play in the half, and the teams traded baskets over the final 2:55 to send the Dogs into halftime with a 34-31 lead.
Holy Cross took its first lead of the game, 40-38, at the 16:48 mark of the second half, and saw the advantage grow to 52-40 at the end of a 16-2 run that spanned more than five minutes. The Bulldogs drew within 10 points, 52-42, on its next possession, but would get no
closer as the Crusaders' lead swelled to as many as 21 in the latter stages of the contest. Holy Cross outscored the Bulldogs in the second by a 48-26 margin, shooting 48.6 percent from the field while holding Asheville to just a 28.6 percent clip after the Dogs shot 46 percent in the first half.
