Balanced Richmond Dominates Minutewomen

Posted on Saturday, January 14th, 2012 and is filed under Richmond Spiders, UMass Minutewomen. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

AMHERST, Mass– Five Spiders scored in double-figures as Richmond cruised past UMass, 73-54, Saturday afternoon in Amherst, Mass.

Richmond recorded its first A-10 road win of the season as it improved to 14-3, 2-1 overall. UMass fell to 6-12, 1-2.

Richmond took command of the game when it sprinted out to a 17-5 score, courtesy of a 10-0 run, jumpstarted by a Ryann Dannelly lay-up.Richmond led by as many as 23 in the first half before taking a commanding 39-21 lead into the break.

UMass would cut the lead to 51-35 with 12:39 left but could get no closer.

Richmond won its seventh-straight over UMass and had five players score in double figures for the second time this season. (Five Richmond players scored in double figures in the home-opening win against William & Mary).

Abby Oliver, Genevieve Okoro and Rachael Bilney led five Spiders in double figures with a team-high 12 points apiece. Kristina King scored a season-high 11 points, and Sam Bilney notched a season-best 10 tallies.

Richmond recorded 21 assists on 29 buckets and shot 8-of-17 from long range. Richmond had 11 steals, led by Becca Wann’s four takeaways.

The Spiders continue road play at St. Bonaventure Wednesday night at 7 p.m.