Sports

Women squeak by McDaniel

Sports in Brief

In print | December 3, 2009

For the second year in a row, the Swarthmore women’s basketball team (2-2, 1-1 CC) scored a basket in the final seconds to overcome Centennial Conference rival McDaniel in an early season meeting.

The Garnet defeated the Green Terror Tuesday by a score of 51-49 at McDaniel’s Gill Center Gymnasium thanks in part to a Kathryn Stockbower ’11 basket with 0:04 remaining.

The victory is the Garnet’s first conference win of the season. McDaniel reached the semifinals of the Centennial Conference Championship tournament last winter, having secured a berth as one of five teams tied for second place in the conference with a record of 11-7.

Swarthmore was left on the outside looking at 10-8, despite having its first winning season since 2005.

The 2-2 start this year has set the tone for more improvement – the Garnet went 0-3 at the beginning of last season.
Stockbower, the reigning Centennial Conference Player of the Year, scored 30 points against McDaniel — her second 30+ outing in a row after scoring 32 against Dickinson (3-1, 1-1 CC) on Nov. 24.

Stockbower was joined in the over-30 club against the Red Devils by Ceylan Bodur ’11, who scored 30 points of her own. The offensive effort fell short of the potent Dickinson offense, however, as the Red Devils scored four players in double digits to come out on top by a score of 94-85 in the high-scoring affair.

Swarthmore will travel to 2009 runner-up Johns Hopkins (3-2, 1-1 CC) tonight for a 7 p.m. game before returning to Tarble Pavilion to host Ursinus (3-1, 1-1 CC) Saturday at 1 p.m.