Miller Scores Career-High to Reach 1,000
LOUISVILLE, KY - A career-high 28 points from senior captain
Casey Miller (Fairbanks, AK) made her the newest
member of the 1,000-point club at Merrimack, but it was not
enough against Edinboro as the Warriors fell to the Fighting Scots
on the first day of the Bellarmine University tournament Monday
afternoon, 98-83.
Becoming to the 17th member of the 1,000-point club
at Merrimack, Miller would lead her team with 9-of-15 shooting from
the field.
"Casey's first concern has always been to do whatever the team
needs from her for us to be successful," head coach Helen
Williams said of her senior captain's accomplishment.
"I'm very proud of what she's achieved as a product of her
hard work, but most of all I'm impressed with how she's done it all
within the team concept."
Miller displayed that very selflessness with a career-high seven
assists in the opening round of the Bellarmine University Holiday
Tournament.
A team-high 27 points from Edinboro's Kelsey Conklin
was too much for Merrimack as the Fighting Scots got to the line 39
times and converted on 33 to runaway with their fifth win of the
year (5-2).
The Warriors fall to 2-8 (1-5 NE-10) with the loss heading into
their final game of the 2009 calendar year tomorrow.
On Tuesday, the Warriors will face Queens College at 6:00pm
before returning North for the holiday break.
1st
Half
The Warriors jumped out to an early 16-6 lead on an 8-0 run
early in the contest with four quick points from both Kelly
Schatzlein (Tolland, CT) and Miller. In the early
going, five different Warriors scored while they shot 7-of-11
(63.6%) from the field. Schatzlein would finish with a
career-high 12 points while grabbing five rebounds on the
afternoon.
While the Warriors held the Fighting Scots to just 23% shooting
in the first 10 minutes, Edinboro fought their way back into the
game to tie it at 23 at the 8:45 mark. The Fighting Scots
would take the lead for good at the six minute mark on two of
Kelsey Conklin's 19 first half points.
Merrimack blanked Edinboro from long range (0-9) for the first
19:59, but a three at the buzzer gave the Fighting Scots a 13-point
lead heading into the break. The 18 first half turnovers
Merrimack committed off-set their good defense and left the
Warriors on the wrong side of a 43-30 halftime deficit.
2nd
Half
The second half started much like the first half ended with the
Fighting Scots scoring the first five points to cap off an 18-0 run
for Edinboro. Although the Warriors made nearly half of their
shots (29-of-59), 29 turnovers in the game proved costly in
the end for the Warriors.
The Fighting Scots led by 26 points as early as seven minutes
into the second half and stretched their lead to 31 with an even
nine minutes remaining. The Warriors would end the game on a
19-5 run spear-headed by nine points from Miller, but the clock
would run out on Merrimack as they conceded a season-high 98 points
to Edinboro.
Following the Holiday Tournament at Bellarmine, the Warriors
will head to Saint Anselm to resume their Northeast-10 Conference
play against the Hawks on Saturday, January 2nd at
1:30pm.
