The Book Lady Cajuns basketball 2002-03

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LOUISIANA

Cincinnati, Ohio

Savannah St.

64 42 LAdy Cajuns take game one of the Bearcat invitational

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Post Game 1 (WIN)

Game One Recap
Charlotte Green and Anna Petrakova combined to score 38 points as Louisiana rolled past Savannah State 64-42 in the first game of the Bearcat Invitational Saturday in Cincinnati.

Green netted 22 points for the Ragin’ Cajuns, two shy of her career high. Petrakova added a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Renee Williams led Savannah State with 10 points.

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Champioship Game

LOUISIANA

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati

55 68 Lady Cajuns finish 2nd in the Bearcat Invitational

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CINCINNATI, Ohio---Carolyn Alexander erupted for a career-high 23 points and added 10 rebounds en route to tournament most valuable player honors as the University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team won the Bearcat Invitational for the seventh time in as many tries, topping Louisiana Lafayette 68-55 on Sunday. The win improves the Bearcats’ record to 7-2, while ULL falls to 3-6 with the defeat.

The Bearcats broke open a one-point game with a 12-0 run over the final four minutes of play to secure the win. Alexander and Valerie King both came up big down the stretch, as each scored five points to push the Bearcats to victory.

Debbie Merrill scored 16 points and added six rebounds, while K.B. Sharp had six points, eight assists and five rebounds to join Alexander on the all-tournament team. ULL’s Charlotte Green (21 points) and Anna Petrakova (16 points, 13 rebounds) were all-tournament choices for the Ragin’ Cajuns.

“Defensively we stepped it up in the second half,” said Bearcat head coach Laurie Pirtle. “We came out lethargic and gave up some easy drives. We definitely turned up the intensity in the second half.”

Brittani Young keyed the Bearcats in the game’s early going, with two baskets helping Cincinnati to a 6-4 lead. Green heated up early for the Cajuns, with a pair of baskets of her own in the first five minutes of play.

With the score knotted at 10 just over five minutes in, ULL pieced together a 7-2 run to open up a five-point advantage. Green continued her assault on the Bearcats with her first triple of the game, while also adding a two-point basket.

After a King score got Cincinnati to back within three, ULL went on another run, this time a 6-0 spurt to open its largest lead of the half at nine, with 7:57 remaining. Petrakova got into the act during this Cajun spurt with two of the four baskets.

Cincinnati scored seven of the next nine points, with Alexander contributing four of those, but a lay-up by Tammie White kept the UL Lafayette lead at 28-21 with 4:09 showing on the clock.

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Congrats to . . .

Charlotte Green

Anna Petrakova

. . . fo their hard work and making the make the BearCat All-Tournament Team.

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CINCINNATI - The Louisiana women's basketball team gave the University of Cincinnati a scare on Sunday afternoon, but fell in the championship game of the Bearcat Invitational 68-55 to Cincinnati.

Anna Petrakova scored eight straight points to preserve the Cajuns second half lead at 50-49 until K.B. Sharp hit a three-pointer a to give the Bearcats a two-point edge.

Charlotte Green then hit a long jumper to tie the score at 52-52 with five minutes remaining in the game.

Petrakova fouled out with less than four minutes remaining and the momentum immediately shifted to Cincinnati. The Bearcats went on a 12-0 run over the final four minutes to seal the win.

Green led the Cajuns with 21 points on 9-for-12 shooting. She finished the tournament with 43 points on 17-of-25 shooting and was named to the All-Tournament Team.

Petrakova recorded her second straight double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds. She finished the tournament with 32 points, on 13-of-25 shooting, and added 22 rebounds to earn All-Tournament Team honors as well.

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ARKANSAS 75 - LOUISIANA 57

The numbers were the same but the results were different.

Arkansas forward Shanna Harmon supplied the spark for the Lady Razorbacks, hitting 3 three-pointers in the opening minutes of the second half.

The number 11 ranked team in the country plodded early and pulled away late in a 75-57 victory over Louisiana's Lady Cajuns before a croud of 3,599 at Alltel Arena on Monday night.

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LAFAYETTE - Louisiana has to find a way to score. If not, it's going to be a long season in women's basketball.

Coach J. Kelley Hall's Ragin' Cajuns suffered a second straight Sun Belt Conference loss at home on Thursday, 62-37 to South Alabama.

Paired with last week's 54-41 defeat by New Mexico State, offensive woes have put the squad in a catch-up position in the league chase.

"We've got to score more than that," Hall said after his team shot an anemic 27.5 percent against USA.

The Cajuns get another chance to get back in the race at 7 p.m. today when they host the New Orleans Privateers, a team that can identify with UL's recent woes.

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Advertiser-Dan McDonald

LAFAYETTE - Louisiana's women's basketball squad has had several games this year in which inside play was not up to par.

On Saturday night, it was nonexistent.

The Ragin' Cajun post players - starters and substitutes combined - managed only seven points, and that and a sticky New Orleans defense combined to give the Privateers a 65-52 Sun Belt Conference win at Long Gym.

The Lady Cajuns (3-10, 0-3 Sun Belt), losing their fifth straight, got three double-figure performances from the perimeter, but that wasn't enough to overcome a New Orleans lead that reached 18 points early in the second half.

"Our goal at the start of the year was to get 40 points a game from our post players," said a disappointed head coach J. Kelley Hall. "We get seven and two offensive rebounds tonight.

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The McNeese CowGirls are 3-9 and struggling. This may be the Lady Cajuns best chance to right the ship and get back on the winning track.