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Maria Jackson Leads Four in Double Figures as Brandeis Tops Mount Holyoke, 81-38

Maria Jackson Leads Four in Double Figures as Brandeis Tops Mount Holyoke, 81-38
Posted: Nov 13, 2015

From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis University women's basketball team got their 2015-16 season off to a hot start today with an 81-38 victory over Mount Holyoke College in the opening round of the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament presented by the Park Lodge Hotel Group. The Judges (1-0) will meet Eastern Nazarene College in tomorrow's championship game, after the Lions dispatched of Lasell College, 56-47, in the day's other semifinal.

HOW IT HAPPENED

  • Brandeis trailed only once at 5-2, but the Judges scored the next 13 points of the contest to take a 15-5 lead with two minutes remaining in the first quarter and never looked back.
  • They blew things open in the second, outscoring Mount Holyoke by a whopping 31-7 margin to go ahead 50-18 at halftime.
  • The third quarter was the closest period, with the Judges only taking it 16-14, but they padded their lead in the fourth, 15-6.

STAT LEADERS

  • Brandeis had four players score in double figures: junior center Maria Jackson (Rochester, N.Y./Hilton) led the squad with 12 points, while classmate Frankie Pinto (San Clemente, Calif./San Clemente) and senior Heather Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester) each had 11. Sophomore transfer Neffie Lockley (Aurora, Colo. / Regis Jesuit) added 10 points, including a 7-point second quarter.
  • Genelle Green of MHC led all players with 16 points, hitting 7-of-17 overall and 2-of-5 from downtown.
  • Junior Kyla Gabriel (Tivoli, N.Y. / Red Hook) pulled down a game- and career-high nine rebounds, six on the offensive glass. Lockley and junior Paris Hodges (Southampton, N.Y./Southampton) had seven boards each. Xajaah Williams-Flores topped the Lyons with eight boards, while Green had seven.
  • Gabriel also tied for game-high honors with four assists, matched by Kelly Stewart of Mount Holyoke.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

  • The Judges dominated the boards to the tune of 58-39, including 32-7 on the offensive glass.
  • Brandeis also forced the Lyons into 31 turnovers, while committing only 7 miscues of their own, turning that into a 30-2 margin in points off turnovers.
  • The Judges' 43-point margin of victory was their largest advantage of the game.