Box Score Jan. 13, 2005
Box Score
ALLENTOWN, PA - Senior forward Ashanna Randall scored a career-high 27 points and tied her personal-best with 13 rebounds to lead the 22nd-ranked Johns Hopkins women's basketball team to a 91-64 victory over host Muhlenberg. The win is the third straight and the sixth in the last seven games for the Blue Jays, who improve to 11-2 overall and 7-0 in the Centennial Conference. Muhlenberg, which entered the game averaging a national-best 90.0 points per game, slips to 8-4, 4-2.
The Blue Jays wasted little time putting the game away as they led 9-0 less than four minutes into the game and built the lead to 20 at 26-6 with 9:21 remaining in the first half. Randall scored six of her 13 first-half points during the opening spree for the Blue Jays, who repeatedly turned fast-breaks into easy layups and short jumpers. The Mules didn't score until the 15:42 mark, when Gwen Doyle nailed the first of her three first-half three-pointers to trim the deficit to 9-3, but the Blue Jays would allow only a Tiffany Kirk three-pointer in the next six-and-a-half minutes to build the 20-point lead. Muhlenberg never got the margin to less than 17 the rest of the game.
The Blue Jay lead hovered in the 20-point range for the remainder of the first half as sophomore Haley Wojdowski scored all eight of her points before intermission and senior Alissa Burkholder tallied eight of her 16 before halftime.
Any hopes of a Muhlenberg comeback were quickly dashed early in the second half. After the Mules cut the 48-26 hafltime deficit to 48-28 on a pair of free throws by Stephanie Coluccini, the Blue Jays responded with a 14-4 run that pushed the lead to a game-high 30 points at 62-32 to put the game away. Burkholder jump-started the run with a layup and Randall scored five points during the run for Hopkins, which has scored 88 and 91 points in its last two games after being held below 60 points four straight times.
Randall hit 11-of-16 shots from the floor and 5-of-8 from the free throw line to account for her 27-point effort. Burkholder was one of three other Blue Jays to score in double figures as sophomore Julie Miller (11 points, nine rebounds) and senior Katie Kimball (10 points, 7 rebounds) helped pace a scoring attack that saw 11 of 12 Hopkins players score. The Blue Jays hit 34-of-75 (.453) shots from the floor and had 27 offensive rebounds in the win.
Doyle was the only Muhlenberg player to reach double figures as she tallied a team-high 14 points and hit four of the Mules' 10 three-pointers in the game. The Mules hit just 18-of-70 from the floor and were out-rebounded, 63-40.
