11/19/2004
Box Score
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Georgetown University women's basketball team (0-1) dropped its season opener to cross-town rival George Washington 67-62 tonight in front of 1,105 fans in McDonough Arena. It marks the first time in four seasons that the Hoyas have fallen to GW. The Hoyas received double-doubles from two players in the loss. Kieraah Marlow (Fr., Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) scored 13 points and pulled down 10 rebounds and Varda Tamoulianis (Sr., Moscow, Russia/Academy of Labour and Social Relations) scored 10 points and was the game leader and set a career high in rebounds with 17. A third Hoya, Bethany LeSueur (Jr., Garden City, N.Y./Garden City (Virginia)) fell one rebound shy with 10 points and nine rebounds.
The Hoyas were hot offensively in the first half and managed to build a 32-16 lead over the Colonials with four and a half minutes remaining in the half. GW closed out the half with an 8-0 run, cutting the Hoyas margin to 32-24.
Georgetown's offense could not connect early in the second half, and the Colonials closed the gap to 32-29. Georgetown's Mary Lisicky (Sr., Whitehall, Pa./ Whitehall) hit a three-pointer to end GW's run and give control back to the Hoyas. Lisicky led the Hoyas in scoring with 14. The Hoyas maintained the lead until the seven-minute mark, when the Colonials took a one-point advantage.
The score remained within a one-point margin past the two-minute mark until GW's Jessica Simmonds scored to put the Hoyas down by three. After good free throw shooting and a key offensive rebound put the Colonials up 65-57 with 26 seconds to play, the Hoyas mounted one last charge, scoring five points in nine seconds, but in the end it was not enough.
The Hoyas out-rebounded the Colonials 51-37. After both teams shot 40% from the field in the first period, the Colonials shot 48% while Georgetown shot only 29%. The Colonials also got to the free throw line almost thrice as much as the Hoyas, hitting 17 of 29 free throws compared to Georgetown?s 6 of 10.
The Hoyas travel to Utah for their next contest, facing the Utes for the first time ever at 9 p.m. (EST) on Monday, November 22.
Some photos of the game are below:
