6-5
Loyola Marymount
6-6
Cal Poly Concludes Non-Conference Season with 84-71 Win over LMU
12/20/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Jonae Ervin and Molly Schlemer each recorded a double-double in leading the Cal Poly women's basketball team to an 84-71 non-conference win over Loyola Marymount on Thursday in Mott Gym.
Cal Poly improves to 6-5 while LMU falls to 6-6. Cal Poly will return to the court on Jan. 3 when the team opens Big West Conference play at Long Beach State.
Schlemer's double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds while Ervin's came from dishing out a career-high 11 assists and scoring 15 points. Ariana Elegado tallied a team-high 23 points. Shlemer's points came when she hit seven of 15 shots from the floor while Ervin hit five of 11 from the floor and made five of six from the line. Elegado held the hot hand hitting eight of 13 from the floor and six of nine from long range. Caroline Reeves also recorded 11 rebounds and added eight points.
Alex Cowling led the Lions with 16 points when she made 12 of 13 shots from the line with Hazel Ramirez adding 15 pionts.
Cal Poly shot 43 percent from the floor and made seven of 15 shots from long range while LMU shot 31 percent from the floor and made just two of 14 from beyond the arc. Cal Poly was solid from the line, hitting 15 of 18 with LMU making 17 of 23 attempts. The Mustangs outrebounded LMU, 54-49, but committed eight more turnovers, 15-7, in the win.
The game opened with neither team scoring for nearly three minutes (17:04) when Elegado hit her first three of the game to put the Mustangs up. Over the next five minutes the Mustangs kept up the pressure and held a 22-8 lead with 11:52 left in the half. Cal Poly would hold a 12 point lead at the break, 42-30. Elegado finished the half with 20 points when she hit six of eight three pointers.
LMU mounted a charge to open the half and cut the Mustang lead to two (46-44) with 48-44 left in the game. Cal Poly maintained the lead until 4:41 left on the clock when LMU converted a traditional three-point play and a 69-68 lead, the only lead of the game as Woodard hit a jumper on the next possession and a lead the Mustangs would not give up. The Mustangs closed the game on a 16-2 run.
