By Le Moyne Athletics<\/p>\n
Milwaukee \u2013 The Le Moyne women\u2019s basketball team traveled to Marquette for a non-conference matchup and came away with an 89-42 loss to the Golden Eagles.<\/p>\n
Through nine games, the Dolphins sit with a 1-8 record. <\/p>\n
Senior guard Sierra Linnin, junior forward Ashley Buragas, and sophomore guard Eli Clark all tied to lead Le Moyne with eight points. Linnin and Clark each shot 2-for-4 from behind the arc with the former adding two free throws, one rebound and one steal while the latter registered one more bucket, one board and two assists.<\/p>\n
Buragas went 3-8 from the field with three rebounds, one assist and one block. <\/p>\n
Freshmen forward Ava Johnson and guard Kayden Clark sat just behind with six points each for the Dolphins, with Johnson tallying one rebound, one assist and a team-high two blocks and Kayden Clark recording a team-high four rebounds, one assist and one block.<\/p>\n
Junior forward Sydney Postell tied Eli Clark for the team lead in assists with two, while redshirt sophomore guard Amya McLeod led with two steals in the loss. <\/p>\n
Halle Vice put up a game-high 23 points while Skylar Forbes (16), Jordan Meulemans (15) and Lee Volker (14) all finished in the double-digits for Marquette, as well. Vice also added a game-best 10 rebounds, while Volker registered 11 assists. <\/p>\n
The Golden Eagles put together a quick 7-0 lead in the first quarter before Buragas recorded the Dolphins\u2019 first six points on a pair of free throws, a layup and a jumper.<\/p>\n
Two layups from Kayden Clark and a jumper from Eli Clark rounded out Le Moyne\u2019s scoring in the first as Marquette took a 24-12 lead into the first break.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins allowed the first nine points of the second frame through nearly four minutes before a 3 from Linnin got Le Moyne back on the board. Another 3 from Linnin and one more from junior guard Jessica Wangolo brought the team back within 20 of Marquette before the hosts went on a 9-2 run to close out the first half leading, 49-23.<\/p>\n
The teams traded a pair of 3s to open the third quarter before Marquette went on another run, this time 7-0, before Buragas tipped in a bucket and Kayden Clark made a layup in the paint. <\/p>\n
Johnson added the first two made 3-pointers of her career on back-to-back possessions in the middle of the frame before the quarter closed on back-to-back 3s from Eli Clark and Meulemans. <\/p>\n
The Golden Eagles opened the final quarter of play with a 68-40 lead and only allowed the first two points on a pair of made shots from the line by Linnin before holding the Dolphins scoreless the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
Marquette added 21 points in the final seven-plus minutes of action to close out the game with an 89-42 victory.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Le Moyne will finish out its two-game road trip in Bowling Green, Ohio as it takes on the Falcons. Tipoff is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Le Moyne Athletics Milwaukee \u2013 The Le Moyne women\u2019s basketball team traveled to Marquette for a non-conference…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-348519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}