Women's Basketball
Women's Basketball: "Trey chic" 15 3-pointers send Big Red past Quakers
Sarah Perrine led Denison's record-breaking 3-point shooting effort, going 5-for-9 and leading the Big Red with 19 points.
Date: February 5, 2008
Location: RICHMOND, Ind.
The Denison Big Red knocked down a school-record 15 3-pointers and got 19 and 17 points respectively from Sarah Perrine (Springfield, Ohio/Shawnee) and Haley Dahlgard (Walnut Creek, Calif./Northgate) as DU rolled to a 79-60 road win over Earlham College on Tuesday night.
The Big Red went 15-for-36, breaking the school record for 3-point field goals made which was previously 11, accomplished on three separate occasions. The 36 attempts also set a new single-game mark. The old record, 32 attempts, was set in the 2003-04 season versus Hanover College.
Half of Denison's 30 field goals were of the 3-point variety and much of the sharpshooting credit goes to Perrine and Dahlgard who combined to go 10-for-19 from beyond the arc. Both hit five 3-pointers apiece, which was just one trey shy of the Denison individual, single-game high.
The Big Red held Earlham to 26 points in the first half and took a seven point lead into the locker room. In the second half DU would control the tempo, pushing their lead out to as much as 24 points late in the contest.
Joining Dahlgard and Perrine in double-figures was senior Anna Mayo (Potomac, Md./Walt Whitman) who scored a career-high 11 points while going 3-for-5 from 3-point range. Mayo helped the DU bench outscore the Quakers 27-0. Ellen O'Brien (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) contributed nine assists and Carolyn Simpson (Dublin, Ohio/Scioto) added eight rebounds to round out the leaders for Denison.
Earlham was paced by Tasha Merrill's 23 points off a 9-for-16 shooting night. Whitney McBurrows added 14 points and nine rebounds for the Quakers who fall to 2-18 overall and 1-10 in the North Coast Athletic Conference.
With the victory Denison improves to 12-8 overall and is now 8-3 in the NCAC.