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UB Advances To ECC Women's Championship Final

UB Advances To ECC Women's Championship Final
March 6, 2010

Brookville, NY-The University of Bridgeport women's basketball team outscored Dowling College, 8-1, over the final 3:03 of the game and did not allow a field goal by the Golden Lions in the last 9:57 of the contest, as UB, the tournament's top seed, advanced to the finals of the 2010 East Coast Conference Women's Basketball Championship Tournament with a hard-fought 50-46 triumph. The win lifts Bridgeport's overall record to 20-8. The loss drops Dowling 20-9. 

“We survived and advanced and that's what you want to do at this time of year”, said Bridgeport head coach Mark McCaleb, whose team won despite committing a season-high 32 turnovers. “The difference in the game was our defense in the second half (Bridgeport limited Dowling to only 16 second half points) and free throw shooting (UB hit 15 of 19 free throws to Dowling's 4 of 9 from the line).”
 
Trailing 44-42 with 3:15 to play, Bridgeport tied the game at 44-44 when sophomore Julia Colley (Harlow, England) hit a shot at the 3:03 mark. The Purple Knights would then take a 46-44 lead with 2:04 to play which they never relinquished when junior Ana-Maria Kammer (Frankfurt, Germany) hit a pair of free throws.
 
After Dowling's Connie Simmons (FR, Syosset, NY) split two free throws with 18 seconds to play to make the score 46-45, Bridgeport would then ice the game as senior Sidney Parsons (Chandler, AZ) hit two free throws with 10 seconds to play, and classmate Emma Beddome (Melbourne, Australia) added two more from the line with just six second to play to make the final score 50-45 in favor of the Purple Knights. Beddome led all players in the game with 11 rebounds. Bridgeport held a 46-37 advantage on the glass in the game.
 
Dowling sophomore Hannah Krueger (Mentone, IN) led all scorers in the game with 17 points off the Golden Lions' bench. She was joined in double figures by graduate student Christie Marrone (Brooklyn, NY), who had 10 points.
 
Junior Meghan Lewis (Spring, TX) was the only Bridgeport player to reach double-figure scoring, as she netted a team-high 13 points.
 
UB now advances to Sunday's ECC Women's Basketball Championship Final, where they will face Molloy, the tournamnet's number two seed. The 2010 East Coast Conference Women's Basketball Championship Tournament Final will tip-off at 12 noon and be played at C.W. Post University in Brookville, NY. The winner of Sunday's ECC Final receives an automatic invitation to the NCAA Division II Championship Tournament that begins next week.