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Saturday, February 17, 2001
Wahine closes DALLAS -- The University of Hawaii Wahine closed out both halves last night like a good salesman finalizes a deal.
on SMU
Hawaii takes care of
business in 14-point winStar-Bulletin staff
An 11-2 run at the end of the first half allowed UH to take a 32-23 lead into the locker room.
An 11-2 run at game's end protected a lead after Southern Methodist had cut its deficit to five points, 51-46.
The 62-48 WAC victory was the fifth without a loss on the road, and increased the Wahine's winning streak to seven games.
Hawaii (19-4, 10-2 WAC) is now one game behind league-leader Texas Christian (18-5, 10-1) in the loss column.
The Horned Frogs suffered their first WAC loss last night at Nevada, 71-63.
The Wahine will try to sweep their third consecutive road trip this season when they play Rice tomorrow (10 a.m. on KCCN radio 1420-AM) in Houston.
Crystal Lee and Jana Gabrielova had the hot hands at the end of the first half, scoring seven and six points, respectively.
With nine minutes left, Kylie Galloway went to the bench with her second foul. UH trailed, 19-14.
For the remainder of the half, the Wahine outscored SMU, 18-4.
Dainora Puida scored 11 of 17 points in the final 3 1/2 minutes to nullify SMU's rally.
"When they went to the full-court press with about four minutes left, we told the girls to attack, don't sit back," Hawaii coach Vince Goo said. "We put Kylie (who had four fouls) on the wing and she was able to get the ball to Dainora."
Several baskets came easily when the Wahine broke that press.
And the Wahine played to their strength -- defense.
UH held SMU to 26.4 percent shooting from the field and held leading scorer D-dra Rucker to 12 points.
"We took away the baseline and forced them to go over the top where our big people were to help out," Goo said.
Puida, who finished with 17 points, had 14 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.
Lee, who twisted her right ankle again just before the half, led the Wahine with 19 points.
The negatives, according to Goo, were that the Wahine did not box out well and committed too many turnovers.
But he did say many of the turnovers came when a player was trying to do something good with the attacking offense.
Hawaii 62, Southern Methodist 48
Wahine (19-4, 10-2 WAC)
fg fga ft fta reb a tp min Galloway 2 7 1 1 3 3 5 19 Gabrielova 3 8 6 6 5 4 12 36 Roper 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Lee 5 12 8 9 4 2 19 37 Atuaia 1 4 0 0 5 2 2 20 Brossman 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 14 Puida 6 8 5 6 14 0 17 30 Allen 1 2 0 0 4 0 2 22 Greeny 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 12 Croser 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Team 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Totals 19 43 22 24 42 12 62 200 Mustangs (13-11, 8-5 WAC)
fg fga ft fta reb a tp min Krouch 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 19 Rucker 6 16 0 2 2 3 12 26 Glover 3 9 0 1 5 1 6 24 Cossey 6 14 2 2 7 0 16 33 Remke 0 7 2 2 10 0 2 29 Calvert 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 10 Wright 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 Ramdhanny 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 6 McPeters 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Brown 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 12 Alexander 4 15 0 1 9 1 9 22 Patton 0 4 0 2 3 0 0 14 Team 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Totals 19 72 7 14 40 8 48 200 Key--fg: field goals; fga: field goals attempted; ft: free throws; fta: free throws attempted; min: minutes; reb: rebounds; a: assists; tp: total points.
Halftime score-Hawaii 32, Southern Methodist 23
3-point goals-Hawaii 2-7 (Lee 1-1, Greeny 1-1, Galloway 0-3, Gabrielova 0-1, Croser 0-1), SMU 3-14 (Cossey 2-4, Alexander 1-3, Rucker 0-2, Patton 0-2, Krouch 0-1, Ramdhanny 0-1, Brown 0-1). Personal fouls--Hawaii 15, SMU 21. Fouled out-none. Technical fouls--Hawaii, team.
Steals-Hawaii 6 (Lee 3, Gabrielova 2, Brossman), SMU 13 (Rucker 6). Blocked shots-Hawaii 4 (Puida 2, Roper, Lee), SMU 3 (Rucker, Glover, Cossey).
Turnovers-Hawaii 24 (Lee 7, Gabrielova 6, Roper 3, Atuaia 3, Galloway, Brossman, Puida, Allen, Greeny), SMU 14 (Rucker 5, Patton 2, Glover, Cossey, Remke, Calvert, Ramdhanny, Alexander, Brown). Officials-Yarbrough, Larson, Ortega. A-1,109.
WAC standings
Conference Overall W L Pct. W L Pct. TCU 10 1 .909 18 5 .783 Hawaii 10 2 .833 19 4 .826 SMU 7 5 .583 12 11 .522 Nevada 6 6 .500 13 11 .542 Rice 5 6 .455 13 10 .565 Fresno St. 5 7 .417 9 15 .375 San Jose St. 4 9 .308 12 12 .500 Tulsa 3 8 .273 7 16 .304 UTEP 3 9 .250 7 16 .304
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