Feb. 28, 2012

Recap | Box Score

UMKC 63, OAKLAND 54
Swinney Recreation Center (657 attendance)
Kansas City, Mo.
OAKLAND (11-16, 7-11 Summit League)

· Bethany Watterworth scored a game high 17 points and to move past Jessica Pike into ninth on the Oakland all-time scoring list with 1,487 career points.
· She also passed three players to move into16th all-time in Summit League scoring and needs just two more points to make the top 15.
· Elizabeth Hamlet scored a career-high 15 points.
· Hamlet tied a career-high with three 3-pointers.
· Oakland is 27-6 against UMKC all-time with a 9-3 record in road games against the Kangaroos.
· The loss snaps a 14-game winning streak in the series for OU.
· Victoria Lipscomb led OU with six assists equaling her career high for the fourth time this season.
· Brittany Carnago knocked down her first 3-pointer of the season, it was just the ninth of her career.
· Carnago finished with three blocks, to bring her school-record career blocks total to 274.
· Carnago has 80 blocks this season, equaling her total from last year, which ranks second in school single-season history. She also holds the school single-season record of 89.
· Bethany Watterworth's opening free throw gave Oakland a lead for the first time in 3 games.
· Oakland had four blocks in the first four minutes of play, two by Lipscomb and two by Carnago.
· Oakland's first field goal came at the 12:40 mark of the first half, a 3-pointer by Hamlet.
· Hamlet scored six consecutive points to give OU a 7-6 lead.
· Oakland trailed 32-20 at the half.
· The Black & Gold scored 14 field goals in the second half to snap a streak of five consecutive quarters with less than 10 field goals.
· Hamlets 15 points off the bench were a big lift for an OU after the OU bench failed to score at South Dakota.
· Oakland rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit in the previous meeting between the two teams
· OU trailed by as many as 15 points.
· Oakland cut the lead to three at 48-45 at the 10-minute mark.
· After scoring 10 points in the first half, Dayon Hall-Jones did not score in the second half.
· Oakland finished the season in a three-way tie for sixth place.
· The Golden Grizzlies will either be the No. 6 or No. 7 seed at the upcoming Summit League Championship, but must weight for the release of the RPI on Tuesday, which serves as a tiebreaker.
· Oakland finished exactly tied with Western Illinois in both league record and record against opponents within the league.