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McCracken
80
Winner Thomas More F-1402
63
Whitman F-780
Winner
Thomas More F-1402
80
Final
63
Whitman F-780
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Thomas More F-1402 15 23 21 21 80
Whitman F-780 12 18 21 12 63

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Women's Basketball Falls To Fourth-Ranked Thomas More

WALLA WALLA, Wash. - The Whitman women's basketball team gave it all they had but couldn't withstand a 33-point performance from Thomas More's Madison Temple, falling 80-63 to the fourth-ranked Saints Saturday night in the final game of the Kim Evanger Raney Memorial Classic.

Makana Stone's 16-point, 13-rebound effort led the way for the Blues (6-3) who more than made a game of it in the third quarter after trailing by as many as 18 points. Mady Burdett joined Stone as all-tournament selections after contributing 10 points. Kaelan Shamseldin added 14 points with Maegen Martin putting up 12 more and equaling a game-high of eight rebounds.

Temple, the tournament's most valuable player, added eight rebounds to her impressive point total for the Saints (11-0). Emily Shultz scored 15 points to join Temple for all-tournament honors.

The opening quarter featured scrappy play on both sides. With the teams fighting tooth and nail, the Blues were held scoreless for nearly the opening three minutes before Martin's straight away three put her team on the scoreboard and the score at 4-3. The teams traded baskets for much of the period before a Temple layup put TMC up 15-12 to close the period.

The Blues would go up four early in the quarter off a Shamseldin three pointer, but what followed was a 15-2 run from the Saints. Temple had eight points during the second quarter spurt and TMC would carry a 38-30 lead into halftime.

The Saints would begin to blow the game open after back-to-back Kaela Saner three balls gave her team its largest lead of 55-37 by the midpoint of the quarter. The Blues would have none of it though, shaving the deficit to as few as six points.

The Blues hung around in the fourth as Martin's layup kept the deficit at seven points early in the quarter. But after Schultz's jumper in the paint extended the lead to 11 points, the Saints never let the lead get below double digits the rest of the way.

The Blues return action on the road, traveling down the coast for the UC Santa Cruz Classic and matchups against Williams (Dec. 20) and Northwestern (Dec. 21).
 
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