Crusaders close in style.Byline: Chris A. Courogen ANNAPOLIS, Md. - For 37 minutes last night, the Holy Cross and Navy women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. teams were like those movie twins pretending a window is a mirror - not perfect reflections, but close enough to be all but indistinguishable to the untrained eye. First one team couldn't score, then the other. Then Holy Cross got hot, and so did Navy. So it went in a game that had six ties and 16 lead changes until the Crusaders closed with an 11-0 run to claim a key 67-58 road win. The win snapped a two-game losing streak for Holy Cross (11-15, 6-5 Patriot League The Patriot League is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; in football, it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; still often referred to by its former ) and moved the Crusaders into a logjam log·jam n. 1. An immovable mass of floating logs crowded together. 2. A deadlock, as in negotiations; an impasse. Noun 1. for the third seed in the upcoming Patriot League Tournament. With three league games left, Holy Cross is tied with Army, Navy and Bucknell. "I call this a jersey win. Everybody contributed," Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Gibbons harkened back to two years ago, when his team limped down to Annapolis after a tough loss at Bucknell and clawed out a win that sparked an unlikely late-season run. That team finished the season 7-7 in league play, then ran the table in the league tournament. "There is no reason that can't happen (programming) can't happen - The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled again," Gibbons said. In fact, if anything, Gibbons has reason to think things might finally be looking up for his injury-riddled team. After a bevy bevy a flock of birds. of medical tests, doctors finally figured out Bethany O'Dell's cramping cramping see cramp. problem was being caused by a vitamin D deficiency Vitamin D Deficiency Definition Vitamin D deficiency exists when the concentration of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25-OH-D) in the blood serum occurs at 12 ng/ml (nanograms/milliliter), or less. . O'Dell, the team's best perimeter shooter and second-leading scorer, is taking mega-doses of the vitamin to correct the problem. The cure has not taken yet, as evidenced by the bags of ice taped to O'Dell's biceps and legs after the game. But she didn't seem to realize the vitamins would take a few days to kick in. Especially in the first half, when she knocked down four straight 3-pointers to kick-start an offense that had more turnovers (4) than field goals through the first eight minutes. "Our defense let us down," Navy coach Stefanie Pemper said. "You just can't let Bethany O'Dell get those open looks." Navy shot just 23 of 65 (36.5 percent) from the field and turned the ball over 15 times. The Mids stayed in the game by piling up a 42-34 advantage on the boards, including 16 offensive rebounds that converted into 13 second-chance points. Ironically, it was a Holy Cross rebound that keyed the decisive late run Floating down the lane as Briana McFadden fired up an errant 3, O'Dell was in the right spot, grabbing the carom and putting it back to tie the game at 58-58. A Christy Cushnie steal, the Crusaders' 10th theft of the night, led to a Whitney Fremeau free throw with 2:39 to play that gave Holy Cross the lead for good. Fremeau missed the second shot, but Elizabeth Campbell tipped the rebound out to retain Holy Cross possession, and McFadden hit a driving runner to make it a 61-58 game. NAME: COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS The College of the Holy Cross is an exclusively undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Holy Cross is the oldest Roman Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. |
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