Lehigh University
Syracuse
Orange snaps Lehigh's four-game winning streak
12/2/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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Alex Ross and Kristen Dalton paced the Mountain Hawks’ offense, scoring 15 and 13 points, respectively.
Lehigh lost the rebounding battle to the
“We talked about the two things that were really important to us was to take care of the basketball and not give them easy buckets in transition,” Lehigh head coach Sue Troyan said. “The other part of it was not giving them second chance points on the rebounds and we didn’t do a good job there either, so that was frustrating.”
For the second-consecutive game, the Mountain Hawks struggled to put the ball in the basket in the first half. While the Brown and White shot 34.5 percent from the field, it was from downtown where the makes were especially hard to come by. Lehigh went more than 19 minutes without hitting from three-point range, until Alex Ross’ first basket of the game with 56 seconds left in the half broke the ice. The Mountain Hawks shot 1-11 on the period from behind the arc, a 9.1 percent rate from downtown.
That cold shooting helped
“One of the things they really needed to do was just watch for the adjustments and the speed of the game,” Troyan said. “This is by far the most athletic and quickest team we’ve faced, and I think it took us a few minutes to adjust. Once they did that and settled in, we played pretty well.”
The
Feeling the momentum after her first field goal at the end of the first half, Ross opened up the second half with another three from the corner that pulled Lehigh to within six. The Mountain Hawks would hit their next two shots from behind the arc as well and sat just five points down, 48-43 with 16:27 remaining in the game.
But the shooting touch quickly turned cold once again from the outside, as Lehigh missed its next eight shots from behind the arc as the
“It’s a little bit of what they were giving us,” Troyan said. “Honestly, we were limited inside with their size against our post players. It’s probably a little more shots than I would like, but we usually shoot a little better than that.”
But Lehigh would not go quietly into the cold
Jones iced the game for
Lehigh returns to action on Friday when it hosts Bryant at 7 p.m. in Stabler Arena.
