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Sunday, December 16
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12/14/2018 3:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Wildcats look for third straight victory
DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team will seek a third straight win when it plays at Central Connecticut State University on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats follow up the game at Central Connecticut with a pair of home games against Ivy League teams to close out the nonconference portion of the schedule and the calendar year.
They play Dartmouth in an Education Day game in Lundholm Gymnasium on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and face Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m. Princeton is coached by New Hampshire native Courtney Banghart.
UNH STORYLINES
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ashley Storey scored a career high 23 points and Caroline Soucy and Maggie Ahearn contributed double-doubles to lead the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team to a 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Sunday.
The win was UNH's second straight overall and third straight at home. The Wildcats improved to 3-7 on the season.
Head coach Maureen Magarity moved into a tied for the No. 3 spot on the coaching wins list at UNH with the victory. She has a 133-119 record in her eight-plus seasons with the Wildcats.
Magarity is tied with Sue Johnson (133 wins, 1997-2007). Cecilia DeMarco (136 wins, 1977-86) is at No. 2. UNH's all-time winningest coach is Kathy Sanborn (170 wins, 1986-97).
Storey has scored at least 20 points in a game five times this season.
Soucy had 18 points and 10 rebounds against Holy Cross for her first career double-double and she also had a career best six assists. Ahearn had 12 points and 11 rebounds for her second double-double of the season and her career.
Storey leads the team in scoring (16.9 points per game) and is second in rebounding (6.5). Brekke averages 9.3 points a game and Ahearn is third in scoring at 8.9 and leads in rebounding (6.9). Soucy averages 8.6 points per game and Amanda Torres is at 6.7.
Storey is among the America East leaders in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage (69-for-136 for 50.7 percent) and free throw percentage (26-for-38 for 68.4.)
The Wildcats are scoring an average of 57.8 points a game and allowing 66.1 per game.
Magarity led UNH to its best two-year run in the history of the program the last two seasons.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in America East least season, following up on 26-6 and 15-1 marks in 2016-17. The Wildcats advanced to the America East semifinals each season. The team's 45 victories over the two years combined were the best two-year win total in school history.
Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
SCOUTING CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE
- The Blue Devils bring a 2-5 record into Sunday's game.
- They have won two of their last three games.
- They beat Albany, 60-53, in their most recent game Dec. 5.
- Central Connecticut trailed Albany 36-20 at the half and outscored the Great Danes 40-17 in the second half.
- Senior Kiana Patterson scored 28 points vs. Albany.
- It was her fourth straight game with 20-plus points.
- Andi Lydon had 15 points and nine rebounds against Albany.
- Patterson averages 17.3 points a game and makes 2.3 three-pointers per contest.
- Lydon averages 10 points and 5.7 rebounds a game.
- Sophomore center Ashley Berube averages 6.7 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
- The Blue Devils average 59.6 points a game and allow 67.7.
- Beryl Piper is in her 11th season as head coach.
- She's a 1987 graduate of Central Connecticut.
- The Blue Devils were 7-23 overall and 7-11 in the Northeast Conference last season.
- UNH leads the series 14-11.
- The Wildcats have won the last two games, 64-50 on Nov. 29, 2015 and 56-52 on Dec. 21, 2016.
HOME COOKING
The Wildcats have won three straight games in Lundholm and are 3-1 overall at home.
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
They face Dartmouth on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats open the America East portion of the schedule with a game at Maine on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
They play their first home league game against Binghamton on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or HERE.
HONORS FOR KARI
Kari Brekke was named America East Rookie of the Week for her performances the week of Dec. 3-10, the league announced Monday.
Brekke averaged 7.5 points and six assists per game in a pair of Wildcat wins. Brekke had nine points and doubled her career high with eight assists in UNH's 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Dec. 9 in Lundholm. She made two of her four three-point field goal attempts in the game. She has a team-high 17 field goals this season.
Brekke had six points and four assists in UNH's 68-44 win over the University of New England on Thursday.
The Rookie of the Week honors for Brekke were the first America East weekly honors earned by a Wildcat this season.
RAINING TREYS
The Wildcats made 10 of the 16 three-point shots they attempted against Holy Cross, their highest total for made threes in seven years.
The last time the Wildcats had as many as 10 three-pointers was Dec. 3, 2011 when they hit 12 in a loss to Harvard.
Ashley Storey made all three of the three-pointers she took against Holy Cross. Caroline Soucy also made three and Kari Brekke had a pair. Maggie Ahearn and Alli Gribbin each made one three-pointer in the game.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season. She's done it five times this year, including four times in a row from the Brown game through the Bryant game. She had 21 points against Brown, matched her career high with 22 points against Sacred Heart and Northeastern and had 20 against Bryant. She set a new career high with 23 points against Holy Cross.
Storey, who missed all of last season while she rehabilitated from surgeries, added a career-best 12 rebounds against Sacred Heart for the second double-double of her career.
Her first double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also leads the team with 2.2 steals per game.
"She's just so long and she moves really well," said coach Maureen Magarity. "Her arms are so long. Someone will think they have an easy pass into the post and she'll get in there and deflect it."
HOW YOUNG IS YOUNG?
So just how young are these Wildcats?
UNH has one senior on the roster with three juniors, two sophomores and seven freshmen.
The average age of the Wildcats on opening day, Nov. 9, was 19 years, eight months and 12 days.
DOUBLING UP
The Bryant game (11.25) was the first time UNH had five players in double figures in a game since a 71-43 win over Sacred Heart on Dec. 18, 2016.
Ashley Storey had 20 points, Kari Brekke 16, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Caroline Soucy 10 against Bryant.
Alli Gribbin blocked five shots against Bryant. Carlie Pogue '18 was the last Wildcat to block five shots in a game. She did it in a 58-51 win over UMass Lowell on Jan. 14, 2016.
FOR STARTERS
Juniors Ashley Storey and Caroline Soucy, sophomores Maggie Ahearn and Amanda Torres and freshman Kari Brekke started each of the first four games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starts as Wildcats going into the season. Storey started 17 games in the 2015-16 season and Torres started nine games last season.
By contrast, UNH's five starters in its final game last March had a total of 273 starts between them.
THE FRONTCOURT
Ashley Storey, 6-foot-3, returns to lead the team in the frontcourt. Storey started 17 games her freshman year and was named to the America East All Rookie team after averaging 5.4 points and 3.4 rebounds She averaged 4.9 points and 4 rebounds as a sophomore before missing last season.
"We expect a lot from Ashley," Magarity said. "She's come back much stronger and on the court she hasn't missed a beat. We're going to rely on her to rebound and score. She can score in a lot of different ways and can run the floor very well for a big kid."
Sophomore Maggie Ahearn, 6-foot-2, sat out last season after transferring to UNH from Providence College. She played five games as a freshman at Providence.
Storey and Ahearn are joined up front by three freshmen: 6-foot Faith Bonett, 6-foot-2 Ivy Gogolin and 6-foot-3 Mary Foster.
THE BACKCOURT
Sophomore Amanda Torres, 5-foot-7, is the lone returning starter from last season.
"Amanda had a great freshman year and gained a lot of valuable experience when she ended up as the starting point guard," Magarity said. "She needs to step up even more with her leadership this year. She pushes the ball in transition and gets the team going. She's very aggressive off the bounce and her first step is really quick and her outside shooting continues to improve."
Alli Gribbin, a 5-foot-11 senior captain, junior Caroline Soucy, 5-foot-9, and junior Sarah Clement, 5-foot-8, are the upper classmen in the backcourt.
The freshmen guards are 5-foot-6 Kari Brekke, 5-foot-9 Kali Grimm, 5-foot-10 Mariah Gonzalez and 5-foot-5 Sarah Serbascewicz.
THE COACH
Maureen Magarity, in her ninth year as head coach, has led UNH to winning seasons in each of the last two and four of the last five seasons.
She guided the team to a record-smashing mark of 26-6 overall and 15-1 in America East in 2016-17. The 26 wins were three more than the Wildcats had ever won in a season and the league record was the team's best ever and earned the school's first America East women's basketball regular season championship.
Along the way, the team set a school record with 13 consecutive wins.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in the league last year. The 45-18 overall record over the last two seasons was the top mark for any two-year stretch in program history.
JACKIE CAME BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, signed copies of her latest book, "Basketball: A Love Story" before the Holy Cross game.
The book was inspired by the ESPN series of the same name and is in the form of an oral history and includes interviews with well over 100 of the biggest names in basketball, from Bill Russell and Bob Cousy to Larry Bird, from Rebecca Lobo to LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
MacMullan donated $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
The Wildcats follow up the game at Central Connecticut with a pair of home games against Ivy League teams to close out the nonconference portion of the schedule and the calendar year.
They play Dartmouth in an Education Day game in Lundholm Gymnasium on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and face Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m. Princeton is coached by New Hampshire native Courtney Banghart.
UNH STORYLINES
- The Wildcats knocked off Holy Cross, 74-62, for their second straight win Sunday.
- Coach Maureen Magarity moved into a tie for the No. 3 spot in coaching wins in program history.
- Ashley Storey scored a career-high 23 points against Holy Cross.
- Storey averages 16.9 points a game to lead the Wildcats.
- Kari Brekke was named America East Rookie of the Week for her performances in wins over the University of New England and Holy Cross.
- UNH made 10 three-pointers Sunday, its most in a game since 2011.
- Magarity is in her ninth season as Wildcat head coach.
- Central Connecticut owns a 2-5 record.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ashley Storey scored a career high 23 points and Caroline Soucy and Maggie Ahearn contributed double-doubles to lead the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team to a 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Sunday.
The win was UNH's second straight overall and third straight at home. The Wildcats improved to 3-7 on the season.
Head coach Maureen Magarity moved into a tied for the No. 3 spot on the coaching wins list at UNH with the victory. She has a 133-119 record in her eight-plus seasons with the Wildcats.
Magarity is tied with Sue Johnson (133 wins, 1997-2007). Cecilia DeMarco (136 wins, 1977-86) is at No. 2. UNH's all-time winningest coach is Kathy Sanborn (170 wins, 1986-97).
Storey has scored at least 20 points in a game five times this season.
Soucy had 18 points and 10 rebounds against Holy Cross for her first career double-double and she also had a career best six assists. Ahearn had 12 points and 11 rebounds for her second double-double of the season and her career.
Storey leads the team in scoring (16.9 points per game) and is second in rebounding (6.5). Brekke averages 9.3 points a game and Ahearn is third in scoring at 8.9 and leads in rebounding (6.9). Soucy averages 8.6 points per game and Amanda Torres is at 6.7.
Storey is among the America East leaders in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage (69-for-136 for 50.7 percent) and free throw percentage (26-for-38 for 68.4.)
The Wildcats are scoring an average of 57.8 points a game and allowing 66.1 per game.
Magarity led UNH to its best two-year run in the history of the program the last two seasons.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in America East least season, following up on 26-6 and 15-1 marks in 2016-17. The Wildcats advanced to the America East semifinals each season. The team's 45 victories over the two years combined were the best two-year win total in school history.
Storey and senior Alli Gribbin, the lone senior on the team, are the Wildcat captains.
SCOUTING CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE
- The Blue Devils bring a 2-5 record into Sunday's game.
- They have won two of their last three games.
- They beat Albany, 60-53, in their most recent game Dec. 5.
- Central Connecticut trailed Albany 36-20 at the half and outscored the Great Danes 40-17 in the second half.
- Senior Kiana Patterson scored 28 points vs. Albany.
- It was her fourth straight game with 20-plus points.
- Andi Lydon had 15 points and nine rebounds against Albany.
- Patterson averages 17.3 points a game and makes 2.3 three-pointers per contest.
- Lydon averages 10 points and 5.7 rebounds a game.
- Sophomore center Ashley Berube averages 6.7 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
- The Blue Devils average 59.6 points a game and allow 67.7.
- Beryl Piper is in her 11th season as head coach.
- She's a 1987 graduate of Central Connecticut.
- The Blue Devils were 7-23 overall and 7-11 in the Northeast Conference last season.
- UNH leads the series 14-11.
- The Wildcats have won the last two games, 64-50 on Nov. 29, 2015 and 56-52 on Dec. 21, 2016.
HOME COOKING
The Wildcats have won three straight games in Lundholm and are 3-1 overall at home.
Only two of UNH's eight games in November were at home. In contrast, the Wildcats play four of their five December games in Lundholm Gymnasium.
They face Dartmouth on Friday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. and Princeton on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m.
The Wildcats open the America East portion of the schedule with a game at Maine on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
They play their first home league game against Binghamton on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 1 p.m.
Tickets for all home games are available by calling 603-862-4000 or HERE.
HONORS FOR KARI
Kari Brekke was named America East Rookie of the Week for her performances the week of Dec. 3-10, the league announced Monday.
Brekke averaged 7.5 points and six assists per game in a pair of Wildcat wins. Brekke had nine points and doubled her career high with eight assists in UNH's 74-62 win over Holy Cross on Dec. 9 in Lundholm. She made two of her four three-point field goal attempts in the game. She has a team-high 17 field goals this season.
Brekke had six points and four assists in UNH's 68-44 win over the University of New England on Thursday.
The Rookie of the Week honors for Brekke were the first America East weekly honors earned by a Wildcat this season.
RAINING TREYS
The Wildcats made 10 of the 16 three-point shots they attempted against Holy Cross, their highest total for made threes in seven years.
The last time the Wildcats had as many as 10 three-pointers was Dec. 3, 2011 when they hit 12 in a loss to Harvard.
Ashley Storey made all three of the three-pointers she took against Holy Cross. Caroline Soucy also made three and Kari Brekke had a pair. Maggie Ahearn and Alli Gribbin each made one three-pointer in the game.
ASHLEY'S STOREY
Ashley Storey had hit the 20-point mark in a game once in her career coming into the season. She's done it five times this year, including four times in a row from the Brown game through the Bryant game. She had 21 points against Brown, matched her career high with 22 points against Sacred Heart and Northeastern and had 20 against Bryant. She set a new career high with 23 points against Holy Cross.
Storey, who missed all of last season while she rehabilitated from surgeries, added a career-best 12 rebounds against Sacred Heart for the second double-double of her career.
Her first double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) came against Stony Brook on Jan. 4, 2017.
Storey also leads the team with 2.2 steals per game.
"She's just so long and she moves really well," said coach Maureen Magarity. "Her arms are so long. Someone will think they have an easy pass into the post and she'll get in there and deflect it."
HOW YOUNG IS YOUNG?
So just how young are these Wildcats?
UNH has one senior on the roster with three juniors, two sophomores and seven freshmen.
The average age of the Wildcats on opening day, Nov. 9, was 19 years, eight months and 12 days.
DOUBLING UP
The Bryant game (11.25) was the first time UNH had five players in double figures in a game since a 71-43 win over Sacred Heart on Dec. 18, 2016.
Ashley Storey had 20 points, Kari Brekke 16, Maggie Ahearn 14, Amanda Torres 13 and Caroline Soucy 10 against Bryant.
Alli Gribbin blocked five shots against Bryant. Carlie Pogue '18 was the last Wildcat to block five shots in a game. She did it in a 58-51 win over UMass Lowell on Jan. 14, 2016.
FOR STARTERS
Juniors Ashley Storey and Caroline Soucy, sophomores Maggie Ahearn and Amanda Torres and freshman Kari Brekke started each of the first four games of the season for the Wildcats.
The five starters had a total of 26 starts as Wildcats going into the season. Storey started 17 games in the 2015-16 season and Torres started nine games last season.
By contrast, UNH's five starters in its final game last March had a total of 273 starts between them.
THE FRONTCOURT
Ashley Storey, 6-foot-3, returns to lead the team in the frontcourt. Storey started 17 games her freshman year and was named to the America East All Rookie team after averaging 5.4 points and 3.4 rebounds She averaged 4.9 points and 4 rebounds as a sophomore before missing last season.
"We expect a lot from Ashley," Magarity said. "She's come back much stronger and on the court she hasn't missed a beat. We're going to rely on her to rebound and score. She can score in a lot of different ways and can run the floor very well for a big kid."
Sophomore Maggie Ahearn, 6-foot-2, sat out last season after transferring to UNH from Providence College. She played five games as a freshman at Providence.
Storey and Ahearn are joined up front by three freshmen: 6-foot Faith Bonett, 6-foot-2 Ivy Gogolin and 6-foot-3 Mary Foster.
THE BACKCOURT
Sophomore Amanda Torres, 5-foot-7, is the lone returning starter from last season.
"Amanda had a great freshman year and gained a lot of valuable experience when she ended up as the starting point guard," Magarity said. "She needs to step up even more with her leadership this year. She pushes the ball in transition and gets the team going. She's very aggressive off the bounce and her first step is really quick and her outside shooting continues to improve."
Alli Gribbin, a 5-foot-11 senior captain, junior Caroline Soucy, 5-foot-9, and junior Sarah Clement, 5-foot-8, are the upper classmen in the backcourt.
The freshmen guards are 5-foot-6 Kari Brekke, 5-foot-9 Kali Grimm, 5-foot-10 Mariah Gonzalez and 5-foot-5 Sarah Serbascewicz.
THE COACH
Maureen Magarity, in her ninth year as head coach, has led UNH to winning seasons in each of the last two and four of the last five seasons.
She guided the team to a record-smashing mark of 26-6 overall and 15-1 in America East in 2016-17. The 26 wins were three more than the Wildcats had ever won in a season and the league record was the team's best ever and earned the school's first America East women's basketball regular season championship.
Along the way, the team set a school record with 13 consecutive wins.
UNH went 19-12 overall and 9-7 in the league last year. The 45-18 overall record over the last two seasons was the top mark for any two-year stretch in program history.
JACKIE CAME BACK
Acclaimed author and former UNH basketball captain Jackie MacMullan, '82, signed copies of her latest book, "Basketball: A Love Story" before the Holy Cross game.
The book was inspired by the ESPN series of the same name and is in the form of an oral history and includes interviews with well over 100 of the biggest names in basketball, from Bill Russell and Bob Cousy to Larry Bird, from Rebecca Lobo to LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
MacMullan donated $5 from each book purchased to the UNH women's basketball program.
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