University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
La Salle
Women's Basketball Devastates La Salle 75-51
02/17/2005 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 17, 2005
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - With her tenth double-double of the season, senior Kate Flavin (Englewood, Colo.) led the University of Richmond women's basketball team to a 75-51 victory over La Salle tonight in her final game at the Robins Center. The Spiders improve to 19-5, 10-3 against Atlantic 10 opponents while the Explorers drop their third straight contest and fall to 10-14, 4-8 in the league.
Flavin paced all scorers with 22 points and grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds, her third consecutive double-figure performance. Junior Saona Chapman (Voluntown, Conn.) tallied 13 points and freshman Johanna McKnight (Kenner, La.) added ten points, her first career double-digit scoring night. Junior Araceli Gil (Santa Barbara, Calif.) was close to her first-ever double-double with nine points and a career-high eight rebounds.
La Salle's Davineia Payne led the Explorers with 20 points and leading scorer Crista Ricketts contributed 13.
The Spiders shot 54.0% from the field and 50.0% from three-point range, the first time this season in conference play that they have hit over half their field goal and three-point attempts. Richmond also connected on a season-high 88.9% of their free throw attempts.
The Explorers took their only lead three minutes into the game with a three-point basket from Meghan Wilkinson. Flavin converted a three-point play at the 13:33 mark and gave the Spiders an 18-11 edge. The Spiders missed five of their next six shots and La Salle evened the score at 20 with an old-fashioned three-point play from Ricketts.
Flavin responded on the following possession and answered with a three-point conversion with just over six minutes left in the half. Richmond outscored the Explorers 9-3 over the final minutes of the period and held a 32-23 lead at the break.
La Salle opened the second half with six unanswered points but Richmond came back with their own 7-0 run, including a three-point basket and mid-court steal and fast-break lay-up from McKnight in a 20 second span, which gave the Spiders their first double-figure lead.
Richmond held a comfortable lead from the 16-minute mark on and took a 20+ point lead off a three-point basket from sophomore Kelly Roche (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.) at the 4:11 point.
The Spiders committed just seven turnovers, a season-low and their first time in single-digits this year. Richmond's bench contributed 21 points while limiting the Explorers' reserves to just three.
Richmond faces Massachusetts on Sunday, February 20 at 2:00 p.m. in Amherst, Mass.
