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Women's Basketball Topped By Temple
02/24/2010 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 24, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. -
Despite a game-high 21 points from Atlantic-10 leading scorer Brittani Shells, the Spiders fell to Temple 77-67 Wednesday night at the Robins Center.
The chippy game saw 51 fouls, 11 lead changes and eight ties.
"What's tough is to battle and compete and not get the win," said head coach Michael Shafer. "You want success that comes with the competing. We can hold our head held high that we didn't beat ourselves tonight. Eventually competing like this will bring good things to come."
Temple held a 39-35 edge at half but the Spiders pushed the Owls to 11 first-half turnovers.
Temple built its lead to 46-39 after a made three pointer by Kristen McCarthy, but Richmond cut the lead to 46-43 after two Shells jumpers. Shells then came away with a big steal at the 12 minute mark to fuel the Spiders' fire. The Spiders capped their 9-2 run with a Goring lay-up to even the score at 48-all with 11:16 remaining.
Richmond then took its first lead of the second half after Katie Holzer converted a traditional three-point play to put the Spiders up 51-48 with 10:20 left.
For the next six minutes of play, the score changed hands four times and neither team led by more than a basket. Temple regained the lead at 59-58 after a McCarthy jumper with 4:46 remaining. After two Owl baskets, Crystal Goring scored Richmond's next four points to cut the lead to 63-62 with 3:13 remaining.
Again, it was McCarthy who came up big for Temple with a jumper to push the lead to 65-62 with 2:50 left to go. The Owls would close the last three minutes of the game outscoring the Spiders, 14-4.
Goring matched a season-high with 13 points, while Danielle Bell added 10 points. The Spiders went 22-of-26 from the charity stripe and grabbed a game-high nine steals.
Richmond looks to complete the home-and-home sweep of rival GW Friday at noon.
