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Marginean Breaks Scoring Record and Rosseel Drops 21 in Second Half as Dragons Down Richmond
11/20/2009 8:52:59 PM | Women's Basketball
Box Score
Richmond - Gabriela Marginean broke Drexel's (2-1) career scoring record while leading all scorers with 22 points and pulling in 10 rebounds to lead her team in a 67-52 victory over Richmond (2-1) on the road. Jasmina Rosseel exploded for all of her career-high-tying 21 points in the second half, including five three-pointers as the Dragons outscored the Spiders 45-30 in the period to pull away for their first road win of the season. Brittani Shells led the spiders with 15 points.
Marginean compiled her second straight double-double despite spending a good portion of the second half in foul trouble. Rosseel siezed the opportunity to shake off a shooting slump that has plagued her in the first two games. The junior guard keyed a 22-6 Drexel run by drilling three-pointers on three of four possessions midway through the period. Drexel shot a sizzling 58 percent from the floor in the period and held Richmond to 30 percent shooting in the half.
Marginean would go nearly 10 minutes before scoring her first basket, which tied Michelle Maslowski's nine-year-old record of 1,900 points. Her record-tying basket was one of the easiest she would get in the contest as Richmond's Danielle Bell would hustled down a loose ball in the corner and saved it inbounds under the Drexel basket. The ball would fall right into Marignean's hands on the block where she quickly banked it in. A minute and a half later Marginean would make a quick back door cut on her defender and Rosseel would thread a bounce pass to her in the lane for her historic score.
The bucket keyed a 9-0 Drexel run that led the Dragons back from an eight-point deficit and sent the teams into halftime tied at 22-22. Drexel shot 40 percent from the floor but just 2-for-10 from deep in the period.
The cold shooting from distance would change when Rosseel knocked down a three pointer in front of the Drexel bench just under five minutes into the second half. The seemingly innocuous trey sparked the team's leading three-point shooter from last season, who had gone 0-4 in the first half and 0-6 from distance in the previous game.
She went on to pour in 21 points, and four more three-pointers, during a 26-10 run that gave the Dragons a comfortable 12-point lead with six minutes to play.
After Richmond pulled out to an early six-point lead in the second half and looked to be in position to expand on that when Marginean drew her third personal foul at the 15:16 mark and exited the game with 14:53 on the clock. Undeterred the Dragons traded baskets for free-throws with the Spiders and found themselves tied 38-38 midway through the period.
Rosseel stepped to the forefront at that point, knocking down three-pointers on back-to-back possessions and canning one more after a pair of Tyler Hale free throws to give Drexel a 49-42 lead. Marissa Crane swished one more three-pointer off a kick out by Hale to give Drexel a 10-point lead by the time Marginean got back in the game at the 7:11 mark.
Marginean leaned on the Spiders by getting to the free-throw line six times, converting all of her free-throws and sinking a three-pointer of her own to salt the win away for the Dragons.
Rosseel's 21 points matched her career high. Tyler Hale added eight points and eight rebound and played excellent post defense on Richmond's forwards. Kamile Nacickaite scored seven points and pulled down seven rebounds to go with four assists. Marissa Crane led the team with five assists to go with seven points. The Dragons guards pestered Richmond's leading scorer Brittani Shells into shooting just 7-for-22 from the floor.
Drexel is back on the road next Sunday when the Dragons travel to play the nationally ranked Maryland Terrapins in College Park, Md.
Richmond - Gabriela Marginean broke Drexel's (2-1) career scoring record while leading all scorers with 22 points and pulling in 10 rebounds to lead her team in a 67-52 victory over Richmond (2-1) on the road. Jasmina Rosseel exploded for all of her career-high-tying 21 points in the second half, including five three-pointers as the Dragons outscored the Spiders 45-30 in the period to pull away for their first road win of the season. Brittani Shells led the spiders with 15 points.
Marginean compiled her second straight double-double despite spending a good portion of the second half in foul trouble. Rosseel siezed the opportunity to shake off a shooting slump that has plagued her in the first two games. The junior guard keyed a 22-6 Drexel run by drilling three-pointers on three of four possessions midway through the period. Drexel shot a sizzling 58 percent from the floor in the period and held Richmond to 30 percent shooting in the half.
Marginean would go nearly 10 minutes before scoring her first basket, which tied Michelle Maslowski's nine-year-old record of 1,900 points. Her record-tying basket was one of the easiest she would get in the contest as Richmond's Danielle Bell would hustled down a loose ball in the corner and saved it inbounds under the Drexel basket. The ball would fall right into Marignean's hands on the block where she quickly banked it in. A minute and a half later Marginean would make a quick back door cut on her defender and Rosseel would thread a bounce pass to her in the lane for her historic score.
The bucket keyed a 9-0 Drexel run that led the Dragons back from an eight-point deficit and sent the teams into halftime tied at 22-22. Drexel shot 40 percent from the floor but just 2-for-10 from deep in the period.
The cold shooting from distance would change when Rosseel knocked down a three pointer in front of the Drexel bench just under five minutes into the second half. The seemingly innocuous trey sparked the team's leading three-point shooter from last season, who had gone 0-4 in the first half and 0-6 from distance in the previous game.
She went on to pour in 21 points, and four more three-pointers, during a 26-10 run that gave the Dragons a comfortable 12-point lead with six minutes to play.
After Richmond pulled out to an early six-point lead in the second half and looked to be in position to expand on that when Marginean drew her third personal foul at the 15:16 mark and exited the game with 14:53 on the clock. Undeterred the Dragons traded baskets for free-throws with the Spiders and found themselves tied 38-38 midway through the period.
Rosseel stepped to the forefront at that point, knocking down three-pointers on back-to-back possessions and canning one more after a pair of Tyler Hale free throws to give Drexel a 49-42 lead. Marissa Crane swished one more three-pointer off a kick out by Hale to give Drexel a 10-point lead by the time Marginean got back in the game at the 7:11 mark.
Marginean leaned on the Spiders by getting to the free-throw line six times, converting all of her free-throws and sinking a three-pointer of her own to salt the win away for the Dragons.
Rosseel's 21 points matched her career high. Tyler Hale added eight points and eight rebound and played excellent post defense on Richmond's forwards. Kamile Nacickaite scored seven points and pulled down seven rebounds to go with four assists. Marissa Crane led the team with five assists to go with seven points. The Dragons guards pestered Richmond's leading scorer Brittani Shells into shooting just 7-for-22 from the floor.
Drexel is back on the road next Sunday when the Dragons travel to play the nationally ranked Maryland Terrapins in College Park, Md.
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