Marshall University Athletics
WVU Women Stop Herd in Charleston, 79-53
1/21/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
WVU Women Stop Herd in Charleston, 79-53
1/21/2004
- Box Score
CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? Junior guard Yolanda Paige?s 19 points and 12 assists led the West Virginia Mountaineers to a 79-53 win over the Marshall Thundering Herd in women?s basketball action at the Charleston Civic Center on Wednesday.
Paige was 7-of-9 from the floor and fell three rebounds shy of a triple-double. Senior guard Sherell Sowho added 18 points while freshman forward Meg Bulger contributed a career-high 16 points. The hot-shooting Mountaineers shot 57.4 percent from the field as a team.
Marshall (10-6) jumped out to a 4-0 lead to start the contest with the game?s first field goal coming on a Sikeetha Shepard-Hall (Houston, Texas) layup. Shepard-Hall?s bucket gave the sophomore guard 500 points for her career. West Virginia (12-5) jumped ahead at the 15:01 mark of the first half on a 3-pointer by Sowho to seize a 12-10 lead that the Mountaineers would not relinquish.
WVU led by as many as 31 points at 11:05 of the second half.
A game after recording 36 3-point field goal attempts at Buffalo, Marshall was 0-for-2 from beyond the arc. The Herd turned the ball over 22 times to the Mountaineers? 14 turnovers.
Marshall senior Catie Knable (Floyd Knobs, Ind.) picked up her 20th career double-double and started in her 80th game as a member of the Thundering Herd. Knable scored a team-high 15 points and grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds.
Shepard-Hall finished with 10 points.
WVU has now won three straight games in the series versus Marshall.
Marshall will return to Mid-American Conference play on Saturday when it faces the Central Michigan Chippewas at 2 p.m. in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
