18-11
Pacific
9-22
Clancy Leads Cal Poly to Big West Finals with 70-55 Win
3/11/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
ANAHNEIM, Calif. – Senior Rachel Clancy scored 26 points in leading the Cal Poly women's basketball team to a 70-55 win over Pacific and earned a trip to the ampm Big West Women's Basketball Championship game at 1 pm on Saturday at the Honda Center.
The Mustangs, the No. 1 seed, improved to 18-11 while Pacific, No. 7 seed concluded the season 9-22.
Cal Poly will face the No. 4 seed UC Davis in the championship game on Saturday.
Clancy tallied her third double-double when led the team with 14 rebounds, one shy of her career-high 15. She was nine of 15 from the floor and five of six from long range in playing all 40 minutes.
Junior Abby Bloetscher recorded her sixth double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds when she made three of eight field goals and seven of eight at the line. All of Bloetscher's points came in the second half.
Redshirt freshman Jonae Ervin added nine points with Kayla Griffin scoring seven, five in the second half. Caroline Reeves came off the bench to add six points.
Danielle Peacon led Pacific with 17 points with Kendall Rodriguez scoring 15.
Cal Poly shot 40 percent from the floor hitting five of 12 beyond the arc. Pacific shot 41 percent from the floor and hit five of 17 long range.
The Mustangs outrebounded Pacific 43-32 and forced the Tigers into 20 turnovers, 11 in the second half. Cal Poly committed 12.
Clancy scored 18 points in a first half that had six lead changes and three ties and the teams locked at 32-32.
The Mustangs opened the second half on a 11-0 run capped by Erivin's jumper at 15:46.
Pacific cut the lead to seven (47-40) at 11:45 when Taryn Garza hit a jumper, but that would be as close as the Tigers would get to Cal Poly.
The Mustangs biggest lead (68-51) came when senior Tamara Wells hit a layup with 1:28 left in the game.
