The Red and Blue dropped their first League contest
of the season as Clark reaches another milestone.
Feb. 20, 2004
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Penn women's basketball team will
not finish this Ivy League season undefeated after losing
to Brown, 85-75, on Friday night. But the Quakers are still
in the driver seat in the race for their second Ancient Eight
title. Jewel Clark reached 1,600 career points with 29 against
the Bears.
Penn used its home court advantage to defeat Brown, 73-63, on
Jan. 31 and it was the Bears time to try and return the favor.
They put themselves in good position to do just that by starting
the game on a 7-2 run, jumping out to a 14-6 lead at the 14:35
mark on a Colleen Kelly three-pointer.
The Red and Blue tied the score at 18 on a Katie Kilker put back
with 12:04 remaining in the half but then the Quakers did not score
another field goal until Karen Habrukowich knocked down a three at
the 5:56 mark. The junior guard finished with 18 points, going 4-of-8
from beyond the arc. Penn trailed 31-24 at the break due in part to
being outscored by six in second chance points and being held to just
2-of-11 shooting from downtown.
Brown's (12-10, 5-4 Ivy) expanded its advantage in the second half,
leading by as many as 16 at one point, as four of the five starters
finished in double figures. Nyema Micthell led the way with 25 points
(11-of-18) and blocked five shots. Tanara Golston dropped in 17 on
6-of-16 shooting and Holly Robertson scored 14 despite being hampered
by foul trouble all night. Sarah Hayes recorded a double-double for
the Bears with 15 points and 11 boards, hitting on 9-oif-14 from the
free-throw line.
The Quakers cut into Brown's lead throughout the second half, knocking
their deficit down to five on two occasions. After the Bears opened the
second frame on a 9-2 run, Penn went on a 10-1 run of its own with a
pair of treys from Mikaelyn Austin and a lay up from Jennifer Fleischer
to bring the score to 41-36 with 15 minutes, 53 seconds remaining. Brown
jumped back out to a 64-51 lead with less than eight minutes to play.
The Quakers battled back to 69-64 on a Habrukowich three-point field goal
at the 3:52 mark. Jewel Clark started the run, converting a three-point
play after hitting a lay up. Clark finished with 29 points and 17 rebounds
for her ninth double-double of the season. She also reached another
milestone, scoring her 1,600th point.
The Red and Blue are now 13-8 overall and 7-1 in the Ivy League with a
one-game lead over Dartmouth (13-8, 6-2 Ivy) who was victorious over
Cornell
(8-14, 3-6 Ivy), 71-50, on Friday night. The Quakers travel to New Haven,
Conn. on Saturday to face a Yale (5-17, 2-7 Ivy) team that is on a roll,
winning its last two games in dramatic fa****on. The Bulldogs defeated
Harvard
(11-10, 4-4 Ivy), 62-59, last weekend and came out on top of Princeton
(6-15,
3-5 Ivy), 59-56, in overtime on Friday night. Penn and Yale tip off at the
Lee Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
Written by Mat Kanan, associate director of athletic communications
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