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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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(Through Tuesday, January 20) |
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SMU had its two-game winning streak snapped Monday, falling to Concordia 80-57. … Hamline won its second straight Monday, beating St. Olaf 71-69. |
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Jamie Rattunde (Rollingstone, Minn.) posted a double-double with 15 points and 12 reobunds, and four SMU players scored in double figures, as the Cardinals grabbed a 67-62 win over the Pipers on Dec. 3, 2003. |
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Jamie Rattunde (Rollingstone, Minn.) recorded her fifth double-double of the season vs. the Cobbers, scoring a career-high 25 points and adding 11 rebounds. … Five of SMU’s eight wins have been at home. … Rattunde leads three SMU players who are averaging in double figures with a 14.9 ppg average. |
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WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University women's basketball team found themselves in a good news, bad news situation Monday evening against Concordia.
The good news: Jamie Rattunde (Rollingstone, Minn.) notched her second straight double-double — and fifth of the season — with a game-high 25 points and 11 rebounds, while teammate Angie Arrington (Spring Grove, Minn.) chipped in 11 points.
The bad news: The rest of the Cardinals managed just 21 points — including just seven from their nonstarters — as SMU proved to be no match for the Cobbers in an 80-57 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference setback.
“It’s all about making shots — and we didn’t make many,” said SMU coach Dan Messmann. “It’s not that we played that poorly. I thought we ran our offense pretty well, and I thought defensively we were solid. We got tons of good looks at the basket — we just couldn’t knock down any shots.”
The Cardinals hung with Concordia for the first 20 minutes, trailing by just eight, 43-35 after shooting 43 percent from the field and making 4 of 5 free throws.
Once again, that was the good news.
The bad news? The Cardinals managed to connect on just 8 of their 31 field goals in the second half — including a miserable 2-for-13 from the 3-point line and a 4-for-9 effort from the free-throw line — as the Cobbers outscored SMU 37-22 in the second half.
The Cardinals, who had their two-game winning streak snapped, dropped to 7-4 in the MIAC — one game back of Concordia (8-3 MIAC, 10-4 overall) for fourth place in the conference standings.
Jamie Visness scored 22 points and Mandy Pearson added 19 for the Cobbers, who won for the fourth straight time.
“I guess if you told me before the season started that at the midway point we’d be 7-4 (in conference play), I would have been happy with that,” said Messmann, whose team kicks off the second half of the season tonight against Hamline. “The key for us now is to not dwell on (the Concordia) loss. We’ve got three big games coming up that we need to be at our best for.
“You can’t change the past, but you can learn from it and not repeat the same things in the future — that’s what we’ve got to do.”