University of New Hampshire Athletics
Friday, December 29
Durham, NH
7 PM
University of New Hampshire
9-4
48
vs
45
Cornell University
2-9
1
2
3
4
F
Cornell
12
13
14
6
45
New Hampshire
11
9
23
5
48
Team Stats
COR
UNHWBB
FG%
.340
.349
3FG%
.286
.182
FT%
.700
.762
RB
34
29
TO
22
20
STL
8
9
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
16
FGM
5
3FGM
1
FTM
5
Pts
15
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Pts
4
FGM
0
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Players Mentioned
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/ Women's BasketballOlivia Healy had 16 points and seven rebounds to lead UNH past Cornell on Friday night.
Photo by: Joey Walker
Healy Leads 'Cats Past Cornell, To 9-4 Record
12/29/2017 9:57:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Magarity's Team Opens League Play Wednesday at Home at 11 a.m.
DURHAM, N.H. – Senior forwards Olivia Healy (Reading, Mass.) and Kat Fogarty (Westminster, Mass.) scored 16 and 15 points respectively to lead the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team to a 48-45 win over Cornell University on Friday night in Lundholm Gymnasium.
The Wildcats improved to 9-4 overall while closing out the non-conference portion of their schedule. They are 5-0 at home.
UNH, the defending America East regular season champion, opens league play with a game against UMBC at home on Wednesday at 11 a.m. for Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day.
Healy also led the Wildcats with seven rebounds and had a couple of steals and a block. She was five-for-eight in field goals.
Senior guard Brittni Lai (Irvington, N.Y.) had 10 points and a career-high five steals.
NEXT UP
The Wildcats open the America East portion of their schedule Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 11 a.m. against the UMBC Retrievers in Lundholm Gymnasium for Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day.
The Wildcats will then go on the road for two games in a row, at Albany on Saturday, Jan. 6 at 2 p.m. and at Binghamton on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m.
Tickets for all UNH home games are available by CLICKING HERE or by calling 603-862-4000. All America East basketball games are on ESPN3.
HIGHLIGHTS
For the second straight game, the Wildcats held their opponent under 50 points. They beat Sacred Heart, 74-47, in their most recent game on Dec. 21. The 45 points were the lowest total allowed against a Division I rival this season.
UNH went 10-3 going into America East play last season and proceeded to go 15-1 in regular season league play and finished 26-6 overall.
The Wildcats played Cornell without senior center Carlie Pogue (Cincinnati, Ohio), their leading scorer and last year's America East Player of the Year. She missed the game with an injury. It was the first game Pogue has missed in her UNH career and she had started 51 straight contests.
HOW IT HAPPENED
UNH scored the first six points of the game and Cornell had seven of the next eight. The Big Red led 12-11 after one period.
Lai's 14-footer put UNH up 15-13 with 8:02 left in the second period. Cornell opened up a 25-20 halftime lead from there.
Healy and Lai each had eight points in the half and Fogarty had four, but they were the only Wildcats scorers in the first 20 minutes.
Cornell had 19 rebounds to UNH's 12 at the beak.
A 23-14 edge in the third period put the 'Cats up 43-39 with one period to go.
Cornell tied things at 45-45 with 2:59 left in the fourth period on a Jessica Willerson basket.
A Fogarty layup with 49 seconds left and Healy foul shot with 13 seconds to go closed out the scoring.
STARTERS (SEASON/CAREER STARTS)
Sr. G Aliza Simpson (13/86)
Sr. G Peyton Booth (1/29)
Sr. F Kat Fogarty (13/45)
Sr. G Brittni Lai (13/43)
Sr. F Olivia Healy (13/28)
GROUP'S RECORD: 1-0
SERIES INFO
UNH leads 5-1
WILDCAT NOTES
- Pogue leads UNH in scoring (15.5 points per game) and is second in rebounding (5.8).
- The Wildcats were 10-3 in nonconference play during the regular season last year.
- UNH went 1-1 against Ivy League teams this season.
- The Wildcats lost at Dartmouth on Dec. 5.
- Fogarty had four rebounds to go with her 15 points.
- Senior guard Emily Peters (Lindstrom, Minn.) matched her career high with four free throws for her four points in the third period.
- She had UNH's only points off the bench.
- UNH made two of its 11 three-point shots.
- The makes came within 36 seconds in the decisive third period.
- Healy made the first to give UNH a 34-33 lead with 3:31 left in the quarter.
- Senior guard Aliza Simpson (Londonderry, N.H.) made the second.
- UNH never trailed again, though Cornell came back to tie it a couple of times.
- Senior guard Peyton Booth (Wadsworth, Ohio) got the start in place of Pogue.
- It was the first time this year that UNH's starting lineup was not Pogue, Healy, Fogarty, Lai and Simpson.
- Cornell made 34 percent of its shots (17 for 50).
- UNH made 34.9 of its (15 for 43).
- UNH was 16 for 21 from the foul line (76.2 percent).
- Cornell was seven-for-10 (70 percent).
- New Hampshire outscored Cornell 22-14 in the paint and 16-10 off turnovers.
- The Wildcats turned the ball over 20 times and Cornell 22.
- UNH is No. 18 in this week's www.collegeinsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 preseason poll.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
UNH
Olivia Healy: 16 points / 7 rebounds / 1 block / 2 steals
Kat Fogarty: 15 points / 4 rebounds
Brittni Lai: 10 points / 3 assists / 3 rebounds
CORNELL
Samantha Widmann: 9 points / 8 rebounds
Samantha Clement: 9 points
Jessica Willerson: 8 points / 10 rebounds
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