St. John's University Athletics
HAMPTON SNEAKS BY RED STORM WOMEN, 73-65
1/18/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The Red Storm have now dropped five in a row and fall to 5-10 overall, while the Pirates improve to 5-9. Brown had the hot hand in the first half, scoring 12 points in the first 20 minutes. Trailing 22-18 with under a minute to play, Brown found a wide open freshman Nora Gyuris (Pecs, Hungary) all alone under the basket for an easy layup to cut the lead to two. Then after a turnover at the other end, freshman Sherri Brown (Willingboro, N.J.) fed R. Brown for another easy score to tie the game at 22-22. Hampton's Nicole Brathwaite made a pair of free throws in the final seconds of the half as the Pirates took a two-point edge into the lockerroom.
R. Brown picked right up where she left off in the second half scoring the first bucket of the half to knot the game for a third time at 24-24. Senior Latasha Thompson (Newark, N.J.) then connected on a short jumper to give the Red Storm their first lead of the game (26-24) at the 19:07 mark. But the Pirates proceeded to go on a 9-0 run to assume a 33-26 lead. Hampton would maintain its lead for the remainder of the game, but the Red Storm made things interesting in the closing minutes.
Trailing 66-59 with 1:16 to play, R. Brown canned back-to-back three pointers from the left wing to pull the Red Storm to within 67-62 with just over a minute to play. The Pirates then turned the ball over at the other end but when the Red Storm regained possession, the Pirates tied the ball up forcing a jump ball and got the ball back. Looking to foul, the Red Storm ended up burning about 10 seconds off the clock before they got the call. Noa went to the line six times for Hampton in the final :15 seconds and was perfect from the stripe, as the Pirates escaped with the win and avenged a 25-point defeat at the hands of the Red Storm from last season.
Brown extended her double-figure scoring streak to 15 games with a game-high 24 points on 9-of-19 shooting. Junior Telisha Warner (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) and Thompson also scored in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively.
The Red Storm will be looking for their first BIG EAST win on Saturday, January 20, when they travel to Syracuse, N.Y. to take on the Syracuse Orangewomen at 2:00.
