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Weekend Summary Nov. 14, 2010
Road weekend for the Sea~Hawks
This weekend featured road action in basketball, cross country and women’s volleyball with the highlights being a comeback victory for the women’s basketball team on Sunday, a solid performance by Erica Pritchett and a gutsy performance by Sean Hulburt at the 2010 CIS Cross Country Championship.
Cross Country
The CIS national cross-country championship was held in Sherbrooke Quebec this weekend. The Sea~Hawks sent top cross country runners Erica Pritchett and Sean Hulburt to compete in the event with the women running 5k and the men running 10k.
The University of Guelph continued to dominate the national cross-country scene, winning both the overall women and men’s point total. This is the sixth consecutive year the women’s cross country team for Guelph has captured the national title. For the Guelph men’s team this marks the fifth consecutive year they have won the CIS national title. Guelph’s teams had five runners each scoring points for their university.
For the women’s, the overall winner was Jessica Pearo of McMaster posting a time of 17:40. Memorial’s Erica Pritchett finished 36th overall with a time of 19:37. Memorial assistant coach Colin Fewer was impressed with Pritchett’s race. He said, “Erica has been running strong all year. For her to be the fourth AUS runner across the line is impressive.” The Gambo native was Memorial’s top performer all year. Pritchett finishes her career as a Sea~Hawks after competing for five years.
On the men’s side, Sean Hulburt came down with flu-like symptoms but still raced on. Hulburt’s final time was 37:55. The winner in the men’s category was Kyle Boorsma of Guelph with a time of 31:53.
Basketball
Women's Basketball
Saturday UNB 80 Memorial 65 (boxscore)
The Sea~Hawks came into the game looking to pick up some ground in the competitive AUS standings.
The home side come out on a big first quarter fun but in the second quarter as the Memorial went on a big run of their own, scoring thirty-one points and limiting the Varsity Red’s squad to just ten points in the quarter. This evened up the score at half to 41-41 apiece.
In the second half it was a different story as UNB’s Claire Colborne was in the zone on her way to a game-high twenty-five points. After the third quarter Memorial was down 64- 55.
This lead would not be relinquished, as the Reds would go on to win the first set of the weekend’s matches. Overall it was a bad-shooting day for Memorial, as the Sea~Hawks shot 22-61 for 36%.
The game saw four Sea~Hawks reach double figures, with third year Grace Fishbein leading the charge with sixteen points, seven rebounds, while logging a team-high thirty-one minutes. Third year post player Ally Forsey had a double-double with twelve points and ten rebounds.
Sunday Memorial 77 UNB 71 (boxscore)
The Sea~Hawks used their defensive intensity to overcome a four point halftime deficit to earn a road split against the Varsity Reds on Sunday.
Memorial’s offense began to click in the fourth with a thirty point final frame putting them in position to secure a 77-71 win.
Memorial’s player of the game was Brittany Dalton who led the Sea~Hawks with twenty-two points and seven rebounds.
Colborne stayed hot with a game-high 29 points. She was a perfect ten of ten from the foul line and knocked down three three-pointers to take the player of the game honours for the home team.
Grace Fishbein had a well-rounded stat line in the win with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. Third year guard Kim Devison had ten points and two blocks, and Forsey had fourteen points and two blocks.
The Sea~Hawks are now 2-2 after two weeks of AUS competition. The team has played two very competitive teams in the early going.
Upcoming Action
The Sea~Hawks will now have a weekend off as they prepare to host the Saint Mary’s Huskies at the Field House November 27 and 28.
Men’s Basketball
After coming close to beating the CBU Capers last weekend, the men’s side went into this weekend hungry to get their first victory of 2010-11.
Memorial has used UNB as a measuring stick of competitiveness as both programs are emerging from a rebuilding phase in recent years. As a result, Memorial and UNB contests are usually entertaining games.
Saturday UNB 90 Memorial 65 (boxscore)
The Varsity Reds, powered by a dominant fourth quarter, went on to take a 90-65 victory at Lady Beaverbrook Gym. The V-Reds held a ten point advantage heading into the fourth quarter but outscored the Sea~Hawks 27-12 in the final ten minutes to take the win.
At the half, the score was close, with UNB leading by just four points, 37-33.
It was the offensive duo of Alex DesRoche and Daniel Quirion who led the Reds. DesRoche had a double-double with seventeen points and twelve rebounds. Quirion had twenty-two points.
The Sea~Hawks had four players score in double figures with fourth year Mark Woodland leading with eleven points. Coming off the bench, Mike Helsby chipped in with ten points and three rebounds in seventeen minutes of play, in his first action after coming off an injury.
Sunday UNB 82 Memorial 80 (boxscore)
The Sea~Hawks were handed their hardest loss of the young season on Sunday, narrowly losing 82-80 to UNB.
A timely Peter Benoite timeout in the third quarter, when UNB held a twenty point lead, seemed to give the Sea~Hawks a renewed focus. Jason Shepherd and Robbie Habib led the Sea~Hawks to a comeback that saw Memorial take a late fourth quarter lead. However, UNB, once again led by DesRoche, hit a couple of big shots in the final two minutes to take the game 82-80.
DesRoche led a balanced UNB attack with 15 points.
Habib played aggressively for Memorial on his way to a game-high 22 points and 7 rebounds.
Jason Shepherd was a catalyst during the second half comeback, finishing with 16 points.
The Sea~Hawks did a much better job of protecting the basketball on Sunday with only 12 turnovers.
Upcoming Action
The Sea~Hawks will now have a weekend off as they prepare to host the Saint Mary’s Huskies at the Field House November 27 and 28.
Volleyball
Women’s Volleyball
Saturday Moncton 3 Memorial 1 (boxscore)
The Memorial women’s volleyball team opened up the weekend with a close loss to an always energetic Moncton team 3-1 with set scores of 25-16, 18-25, 25-20, 25-16.
Memorial’s fifth year Sasha Wilkins led Memorial with a game-high twelve kills. Libero Nicole Jolliffe also had a game-high for the Sea~Hawks, doing her part with fourteen digs. Setter Beth Forsey had 31 assists.
Huberte Jaillet led the Moncton Aigles Bleues with ten kills and sixteen points. Complementing Jaillet, Veronique Carroll had a game-high thirty-six set ups, while Stephanie Legace had nine kills, twelve digs, and ten total points.
Sunday Moncton 3 Memorial 1 (boxscore)
Moncton came out strong with a convincing opening set 25-11 win. From then on out Memorial would keep it competitive in a back-and-forth match.
In the end, Moncton needed extra points to pull off the win from the Sea~Hawks. Match scores were 25-11, 25-23, 23-25, 27-25.
Wilkins continued to be a force for Memorial, as she led the match with game-highs of eighteen kills and twenty-one and a half points. Jolliffe and Forsey also had game-highs with 20 digs and 35 assists respectively.
Upcoming Action
The Sea~Hawks will continue their road schedule next weekend as they take on the teams of the Quebec conference in Sherbrooke.
Contributed by Alex Gibson