The University of Mary Washington women's basketball team had little trouble in its 73-34 victory over Hood on Tuesday evening -- the victory marked head coach
Deena Applebury's 450th career victory, making her the 30th active head coach in all three NCAA divisions with at least 450 wins.
The Eagles came out strong with a 24-5 score at the end of the first quarter that started with an 11-0 run that went like this:
AB Tsai-Turton opened the game with a layup, then followed on UMW's second possession with another.
Maddy Jenisch knocked down a 3-pointer before
Juliona Mabie added a free throw to add to the lead, 8-0. And finally,
Emma Terry finished off the early run by knocking down another trey.
UMW made each of its first eight attempts from the floor before finally missing with a 19-5 lead in hand at the 3:41 mark. The Eagles followed suit with a strong second period as they out-scored Hood to take a 41-10 lead into the locker room after making 12-of-27 baskets with a 4-for-9 clip from beyond the arc.
The second half was much of the same as they Eagles scored 19 in the third period and added 13 more by the time the buzzer sounded.
Cheyenne Sweeney led the way on offense wih 12 points as she knocked down four 3-pointer's on her seven attempts.
Emily Gorrell added 10 on a 4-for-6 night from the floor, while
Jenna Steadman scored 10. Jenisch and Mabie both score nine as well for the Eagles.
All told, the Eagles hit 24 of their 62 attempts (38.7%) and knocked down nine treys and added 16 more points from the free throw line. On the boards, UMW was tough to slow down, grabbing 49 rebounds, while the Blazers had just 27. Mary Washington recorded 18 assists on its 24 baskets as Mabie and Jenisch had three each.
On defense, the Eagles yielded just eight buckets in Hood's 41 attempts (19.5%) and a 2-for-21 mark from deep (9.5%), while forcing 23 turnovers and coming away with 13 steals.
UMW is back in action on Friday at 5 p.m. against York in York, Pa.
