Antigonish, NS – The Acadia Axewomen defeated the STFX X-Women xx-xx Saturday night at the Saputo Centre in the final regular season game for both teams.
The game finished off home-and-home matches as Acadia defeated the X-Women handily on Wednesday night in Wolfville by a 91-50 margin.
The X-Women got off to a much better start in tonight's game as each squad traded 19 points in the first quarter.
Olivia Moller hit a three-pointer for Acadia midway through the frame to give her team an 11-7 advantage but the X-Women clawed back.
Kimberly Kingsbury and Tahmala Thorpe netted back-to-back three-pointers and Kingsbury closed out the quarter with a pair of free throws to even the score at 19-19. She scored 11 of STFX's points in the opening quarter.
Despite struggling from the perimeter in the second quarter, the X-Women managed to keep pace with the Axewomen and trailed by three points, 28-25 with four minutes to play.
They had their first lead of the game, 29-28 a minute later.
The Axewomen stormed back and reversed the lead to 36-31 in their favour with a minute and a half to play but a Kingsbury jumper at the buzzer tied the game once again, 36-36 heading into the halftime break.
Kingsbury continued to have the hot scoring hands for the X-Women as she closed out the first half with an impressive 23 points.
Jayda Veinot lead the Axewomen with nine points in the opening half.
The Axewomen came out a different team in the third quarter as their offense sparked and they went on an 18-0 run to go up 56-39 midway through the quarter.
Veinot netted 17 points for the Axewomen in the third as they built up a comfortable 72-49 lead after 30 minutes of play. Kingsbury was held to four points in the frame as her squad was outscored 36-13.
The fourth quarter saw the Axewomen hold on to their comfortable 20-point lead throughout the final frame as the X-Women could not mount a comeback.
The final score closed out at 80-62 for the Axewomen as Subway player of the game Veinot scored 28 points.
Elizabeth Beals-Iseyemi netted 16 points for Acadia and had nine rebounds, while Sophie Atkinson scored 13 and also hauled in nine rebounds.
Kingsbury finished with a game-high 31 points and had a double-double night for X with 11 rebounds. Kira Atherley added 10 and Thorpe scored nine and had four rebounds.
With the win, Acadia finishes the season with an 11-4 record and 30 points, tied atop the standings with UPEI and Saint Mary's. They await tie-breaking procedures to determine final placings and who they will meet in the upcoming AUS quarterfinals.
StFX wraps up the regular season with a 2-14 record in seventh place in the AUS standings. At the upcoming AUS championship they will face the No. 2 seed on Thursday, March 17th at 1:00 pm at the Halifax Scotiabank Centre.
The complete Subway AUS Championship schedule can be found by clicking here. The complete tournament schedule will be updated Sunday as final seedings are confirmed.
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Recap courtesy Krista McKenna, STFX Athletics
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| Fourth year X-Women guard Kimberly Kingsbury is honoured pre-game by Coach Watson |
Graduating student therapist Madeline Langevine is honoured pre-game by Coach Watson. |