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| Freshman Hailee Swain led the win against WSU with 10 points. (Stanford Athletics) |
Chalk up two more wins for the
Stanford women’s basketball team after its first road trip of the season took it
to the Evergreen State
That’s where Washington State fell
54-46 in Pullman on Nov. 14 and Gonzaga lost 65-52 in Spokane on Nov. 16.
Thus the team maintained an
unblemished record of 5-0.
Starters for both games were freshman
guard Hailee Swain, junior forward Nunu Agara, freshman forward Lara Somfai,
junior forward Courtney Ogden and senior guard Talana Lepolo.
The victory over Washington State was
nothing like the previous three wins that had opened the season. Those games
were dominant, high-scoring affairs in which multiple Stanford players recorded
double points.
This time only one player, Hailee
with 10 points, was in double digits. However, eight of the nine players who
got into the game contributed points and rebounds.
Three-pointers weren’t going in for
Stanford. The team had only two of 18, both of them by junior guard Chloe
Clardy.
Both teams had their share of
miscues, with 15 turnovers by Stanford and 16 by WSU.
Stanford’s best lead was 13 points
during the third quarter, but WSU kept edging closer – not enough to take the
lead, but enough to keep the visitors and their fans nervous.
With the win, the Cardinal moved to
76-0 all-time against the Cougars, according to Stanford Athletics, which also
reported that last season Stanford didn’t win its first road game until Jan. 16
and managed only two all season.
Two days later against Gonzaga,
Stanford lagged behind in both the first and second quarters but edged ahead to
a 6-point lead after the third quarter and a 13-point lead, 65-52, to end the
game.
The four juniors led the way with a
total of 54 points, starting with Chloe, who had 20. Nunu had 16 plus 11
rebounds for a double-double.
Courtney logged 14 points, and forward
Mary Ashley Stevenson had 4 points.
Once again the team had only two 3’s.
Once again they were by Chloe.
Turnovers led to Gonzaga’s undoing
with Stanford scoring 23 points off the host’s 20 miscues. Stanford had 14
turnovers resulting in 12 Gonzaga points.
The Cardinal return home to host UC
Davis at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 and Lehigh at 1 p.m. Nov. 23.
