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www.carroll.edu Women The Prospector drop first loss of season By Matt Saler Montana Standard Sports Writer BUTTE -— Tenth-ranked Carroll College blew a 22-point lead in the second half to take its first loss on the season, 63-60, to unranked South Dakota Tech Sunday at the Sarsfield Classic in Butte. “The whole key to the game was we came out flat on offense and didn’t play with much pur pose,” Shawn Nelson, Carroll’s head coach, said. “We had a com plete lack of focus.” Led by Melanie Vedrei who dropped 32 points, mainly in the rally, Tech scored 43 points in the second half to Carroll’s 27. Jennie Malone was the only other Hardrocker to reach double digits with 10 points. Tech cut the lead from 17 to four before Vedrei drove down the lane to move within two, 58-56, with 4 minutes, 55 seconds to play. After holding Carroll scoreless on its next possession, Tech scored again at the hands of Vedrei to pull within two with 3:07 on the clock. Danielle Maloney sank a pair for Carroll to make it a 60-58 game, but after both Dillon native Quinn Godecke and Vedrei went 1 -for-2 from the line, it was a tie game with 56.5 seconds to play. Carroll fouled again, and Vedrei made both shots this time to pull ahead by two with plenty of time for Carroll to tie, 8.4 seconds. Carroll’s final attempt was a drive by Carly Syverson that went off the side of the rim. Fittingly, Vedrei rebounded and was fouled. The first shot missed but Vedrei’s second gave a four point lead with .4 seconds on the clock. Carroll attempted a long pass to set up a very quick shot, but the pass was too long and while the Saints attempted to save it from going out of bounds, the clock expired. “We are an awfully good team when we are focused,” Nelson said. “But when we aren’t, we can get beat by anybody and it caught up with us.” Carroll (13-1) was led by Emili Woody with 13 points and Amy Brooks added 12. The Saints trouble started with shots that had trouble finding the inside of the rim, shooting just 36.8 percent for the game. “We had a miserable night shooting from the field,” Nelson said. Tech also won the game from the charity stripe, making 13-of-17 foul shots in the second half while only allowing Carroll two, of which the Saints made both. Carroll College will be back in action against Menlo College (Atherton, Calif.) Friday at the Westminister Tournament in Salt Lake City. Men’s basketball beat up on Wayland Baptist By TOM STUBER IR Sports Writer Toss an elbow get tossed. Toss an elbow on the MVP, get tossed and beat. That’s the way it went in the championship game of the Carroll-Kiwanis Shootout where Carroll College slipped past Wayland Baptist (Texas) 80-72 in a physical match-up. The game seemed to be turning WBU’s way when Carroll’s Ross Gustafson elbowed Michael Polanowski in the chops and was summarily ejected from the game. The foul led to six straight points by WBU to close Carroll’s lead to 66-59. Enter another hard foul and another ejection. This time WBU’s Pedro Montano flattened Sinan Guler, who had just burned him witlj a slam-dunk driving the baseline. Montano knocked Guler to the floor and put him on the line drawing a technical and ejection. “Yeah, that’s big,” Carroll head coach Gary Turcott said of the play. “(WBU) had one right before that. The same play, so it kind of evened out. “(Guler) deserved the MVP, but I thought our kids really did a great job on post defense. Their post players are really good.” The four-point swing put the Saints up 70-59 with 5:49 to play and WBU would draw no closer than eight the rest of the way. The game featured 41 fouls — three technicals — and numerous charging calls as the two teams battered each other all night. “Very physical game, but that’s the way it’s played in that confer ence and we were ready for it,” Turcott said. “It was a war for forty minutes.” Turcott thought the edge may have come from a player off his bench. “Both teams had each other pretty well scouted,” he said. “I thought all our kids had a great game, but I thought Zach Pitts came off the bench and really helped us.” Pitts scored 10 points on three- of-four shooting from behind the arc. He also had a pair of assists in just over 16 minutes. Carroll started slow, but warmed up from outside as Pitts hit a pair of three balls to kick off a run of seven treys in the last ten minutes of the first half. The Saints went from a 16-11 hole to a 38-28 lead with 3:41 to play in the half and maintained that lead into the locker room. “Those were off stops and most were in transition,” Turcott said of the three-point barrage. “That gave us a little cushion, because that made them come at us, they’re just really good.” The lead stayed at or near 10 until the elbows started flying and the tides turned back and forth. Carroll had three other players in double figures led by Jeff Hays’ 20 points. Travis Williams had 17 and Guler had 15 points, six rebounds and six assists. Kendall Webb led WBU with 22 points and also had four assists. Nate Bridges added 12, while Kris Hatley had 11 and Clifton Clarida chipped in 10. Tourney notes: Hays and Photo by Helena IR Jeff Hays drives to the basket in last weekend’s Carroll-Kiwanis Shootout. The Saints took the championship in the tournament. Williams were both selected to the All-Tournament team along with WBU’s Webb and Mid-America University’s Jake Nellor and Adam Hepker. VOLUME 89, NO. 3 Friday, December 2, 2Ó05
