WASHINGTON – The Georgetown University women's basketball team fell to the No. 15/14 Marquette Golden Eagles (14-3, 5-0 BIG EAST) 72-62 on Sunday afternoon at McDonough Arena. With the loss, the Hoyas drop to 8-9 overall and 2-4 in conference play.
"We played Marquette well," said Head Coach
James Howard. "We do some things that other teams might not do and we knew that they're a very good offensive team, so we tried to limit them on that end. I thought that we executed the game plan well for the most part. I thought defensively, we were locked in for the first half."
Graduate student
Dorothy Adomako (Midlothian, Va. / Cosby) led the way for the Blue & Gray with 21 points and six rebounds. Senior
Dionna White (Baltimore, Md. / Milford Mill) added 14 points and five rebounds, while graduate student
Mikayla Venson (Arlington, Va. / Yorktown / Virginia) recorded 12 points.
Georgetown was outrebounded 39-37 and committed 12 turnovers while forcing 12 from the Golden Eagles on three steals. Marquette edged GU in shooting percentage as MU hit 37.3 percent (19 for 51) from the field, while the Hoyas managed 32.8 percent (21 for 64) for the game.
Adomako opened the contest for the Hoyas in the first minute on a second-chance layup. Georgetown's pressuring defense did not allow the Golden Eagles to score until the five-minute mark, but White answered with a steal and a layup to put the team up 4-2. Both squads went back and forth with the lead, but it was a trey from Venson with two minutes left that advanced Georgetown's lead to 11-7. A jumper from Adomako with a minute to go put the Blue & Gray on top 13-7 after the end of the quarter.
Free throws from both teams were the only way the teams managed to score in the first three minutes of the second quarter, but a jumper from junior
Anita Kelava (Zagreb, Croatia / Croatian National Team / Maine) broke the streak and put the Hoyas up 18-9. Georgetown went on a 7-0 scoring run until the Golden Eagles crept up, trailing by just four. Back-to-back 3-pointers from the Blue & Gray put the squad up by six, but with one minute left until the half, MU made the score even at 32.
It did not take long for Marquette to grab the lead as the GU defense went cold in the third quarter. The Golden Eagles managed to lead by as much as eight down the stretch, but White drew a foul as she drove to the basket and connected the three-point play to trail by one. The Hoyas continued to battle for the lead as they were down 51-48 entering the final stanza.
Adomako tied it up in the fourth off a three-point play and even gave GU a two-point lead from a trip to the charity stripe, but Marquette answered right back quickly after. With less than five minutes to play, Venson made it even again with a 3-pointer. A layup plus a pair of free throws put the Golden Eagles back on top as the Hoyas struggled to fight back, making the final score 72-62.
The Blue & Gray will host the Villanova Wildcats on Saturday, Jan. 19 at McDonough Arena. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. and will be broadcast live on the BIG EAST Digital Network (BEDN) and live stats will be available at
www.GUHoyas.com.
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