University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
4-3
Liberty
0-5
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 24 | 12 | 20 | 7 | 63 |
| Liberty | 9 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 54 |
Spiders Show Off Their Depth in 63-54 Win Over Liberty
12/04/2016 | Women's Basketball
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The University of Richmond women's basketball team (4-3) showed every bit of its depth and potential on Saturday afternoon and has seemingly put that forgettable start to the season behind them by knocking off Liberty (0-5) in impressive fashion, 63-54.
Freshman Ragan Wiseman and Janelle Hubbard paced the scoring effort, putting up 15 points apiece, a career-high for Wiseman, by combining to shoot 12-21 from the floor. Lauren Tolson continued to emerge from her early season drought, canning 11 points on 4-12 shooting and 3-9 from long range.
Outside of that group, Kylie Murphree matched her career-high with eight points while handing out four assists. Micaela Parson scored just four points but grabbed five boards and handed out five helpers. Freshman Jaide Hinds-Clarke continued her positive start with nine more points and five big rebounds.
The 36 bench points continued the torrid pace the Spiders set in Florida, giving them 114 over the last four games.
The Spiders came out firing in the first quarter on Saturday evening inside Alumni Hall. By the first media timeout the Spiders had already built a 10-2 lead and would only build on it from that point. Ragan Wiseman scored her first points by finishing with the left hand, drawing a foul and converting the free throw. She went on to score fire more points in the first to lead the game with eight at that point, pushing the Spiders ahead by 15, 24-9.
The lead increased to as many as 17 early in the second quarter but from there Liberty began to chip away. The Richmond lead was down to nine at the 49-second mark in the second following a 10-0 Liberty run but Hubbard put a stop to that with a jumper just before the halftime buzzer. She finished the first half with a game-high 10 points.
Liberty showed quite a bit of fight in the third quarter, quickly cutting away at the Richmond lead, bringing it all the way down to two with 7:25 to play in the quarter. Once again it was slump buster Janelle Hubbard to the rescue. She stuck a jumper to push the lead back to four and Richmond never looked back for the rest of the game. By the end of the third the lead was back to 14 and three players had reached double figures for UR.
Ragan Wiseman continued her breakout performance in the fourth quarter before finishing off her 15-point effort with a layup through contact earning some adulation from an excited bench. It was cruise control from then on as Richmond coasted to the nine-point victory.
The Spiders return to Alumni Hall tomorrow (Dec. 4) to take on Cleveland State at 2 p.m. looking to make it five-straight wins for the first time since doing so to open the 2015-16 season.
