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Axewomen post first win of regular season vs UPEI

Axewomen post first win of regular season vs UPEI

WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The Acadia Axewomen basketball team recorded their first win of the 2016-17 regular season with a 61-58 win over the visiting UPEI Panthers.

Subway Player of the Game Paloma Anderson (Phoenix, Arizona) netted a game high 24 points as the Axewomen battled back from a 28-20 first quarter deficit to a 35-35 halftime score.

The Panthers struck early in the game with five first half three-pointers and then never went back to the well again. Five for eighteen in the first half, UPEI finished the game 5-30 from the distant arc.

Victoria Barbour's (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) three point shot in the opening seconds of the second quarter was the last of the long perimeter shots by the Panthers as the Axewomen worked on a 10-0 run to take a 34-32 lead late in the second frame.

UPEI's largest lead came at 9:30 of the second quarter when the Panthers held onto an 11 point edge.

Out-scoring UPEI 15-7 in the second quarter, the Axewomen tied the game at 35 at the end of the first half. Anderson scored 10 of her 24 points in the second period.

The second half was much tighter as the teams exchanged leads 14 times throughout the course of the game - nine of which game in the second half.

Down 45-44 with 2:35 remaining in the third frame, the Axewomen grabbed a 46-45 lead on an Anderson layup and they never looked back by keeping the lead until the closing buzzer.

Karla Yepez (Quito, Ecuador), named UPEI's Player of the game, scored a Panther high 17 points, while teammate Kiera Rigby (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) added 10. Carolina Del Santo (Barcelona, Spain) pulled down 11 boards.

Acadia's Allie Berry (Yarmouth, N.S.) had a season high 13 rebounds and teammate Kelsey Rice (Beaver Bank, N.S.) posted 11 rebounds. Chanel Smith (Halifax, N.S.) added 10 points to Anderson's 24.

The Axewomen were only 30.8% from the floor but recorded an impressive 74% from the free throw line.  Only 1 of 15 three-point shot attempts by the Axewomen counted and that was Anderson's drained shot that gave Acadia a 42-41 lead late in the third quarter.

The Axewomen improve to 1-4 and will host the 4-1 UNB Varsity Reds tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m., while the Panthers head to Halifax to take on the undefeated first place Saint Mary's Huskies.