Clarion University Women’s Basketball Falls 65-48 to Bloomsburg

Chris Rossetti

Chris Rossetti

Published December 17, 2014 5:14 am
Clarion University Women’s Basketball Falls 65-48 to Bloomsburg

Heeter11CLARION, Pa. — Despite Hannah Heeter’s 48th career double-double, the Clarion University women’s basketball team dropped a 65-48 decision to visiting Bloomsburg Tuesday night at Tippin Gym.

Heeter had 10 points and 15 rebounds, her school-record 28th game with at least 15 boards, but Bloomsburg expanded a 6-point halftime lead, 29-23, by outscoring the Golden Eagles (1-7 overall, 0-4 PSAC West) 36-25 in the second half and getting the lead to as many as 23, 58-35, midway through the half.

Tania Holmes added 11 points and five boards for Clarion, while Delrika Jones-Carey had nine points and seven rebounds and Maria Taylor eight points and eight rebounds. Miaja Coursey, playing in her first game this season, added six points and six rebounds.

Bloomsburg (6-1, 4-0 PSAC East) used a balanced attack that featured four players in double digits.

The Huskies were led by 13 points apiece from Jocelyn Ford and Camden Boehner, who hit three 3-pointers. Morgan Klunk and Adreana Sadowski each had 10 tallies. Ford and Sadowski led Bloomsburg with six rebounds each.

Clarion, which trailed by 12, 29-17, with three minutes left in the first half used a half-ending 6-0 run to get within two possession at the break. The Golden Eagles then made it a 4-point game, 29-25, right out of halftime on a basket by Holmes and still trailed by four, 31-27, on a Jones-Carey basket two minutes into the half. But Bloomsburg answered with a game-defining 27-8 run over the next eight minutes to take its biggest lead of the game, 58-35, on a Boehner triple with 9:43 left.

Bloomsburg started quick jumping out to an 18-5 lead six-and-half minutes into the game before an 8-0 Clarion run that saw Holmes score four points got Clarion to within five, 18-13, with just under 11 minutes left in the half.

Another Huskie run, this time an 11-4 spurt, put the lead back to 12 before the half closing 6-0 mini-run by the Golden Eagles.

Clarion returns to action at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when it hosts East Stroudsburg.