Thursday, January 22, 2004
Huskies fall at Miami
Secrest scores 18 and tops 1,000 point total while at NIU
Article by:
Steve Brown - Sports Reporter
• sbrown@northernstar.info
Lindsay Secrest and company had themselves set for a monumental night
in Wednesday’s women’s basketball matchup after completion
of the first half, but it was ruined with a 75-67 loss to host Miami-Ohio.
The Huskies’ forward was in reach of topping the 1,000 career
points mark, and NIU had a 14-point lead against the MAC East’s
second place team.
Miami-Ohio (3-1 MAC, 9-6 overall) managed a comeback in the second
half with a late 12-2 run. Miami’s Melanie Kozlowski sealed her
team’s victory by making four free throws in the final 30 seconds.
Secrest led NIU (7-9, 2-3) with 18 points, shooting 7-of-14 from the
field, and became the 21st Huskie to pass the 1,000-point mark. Secrest
surpassed the milestone with a three-pointer, which has accounted for
51 percent of her total points. Current NIU senior Jennifer Youngblood
has 1,287 career points.
“It was good to see Lindsay accomplish that tonight,” NIU
coach Carol Hammerle said. “She played extremely hard tonight.
She’s been doing a nice job for us.”
The Huskies had four players score in double digits in Secrest, Monique
Davis, Youngblood and Joi Scott, but NIU couldn’t hold back the
MAC’s highest-scoring offense in Miami, which averages 77.4 points
per game.
“We were going inside and scoring in the first half, but then
there was a momentum switch, and Miami started doing what we did to
them to get back within six at halftime,” Hammerle said. “Then
we didn’t make good decisions down the stretch and turned the ball
over in key situations.”
The RedHawks shot 17-of-17 from the free-throw line, had 10 more rebounds
and 11 fewer turnovers than NIU. Hammerle blames the Huskies’ setbacks
to the loss of momentum in the second half
“The turnovers were big,” Hammerle said. “We’re
so close, but we have to dig a little deeper. Miami did that tonight,
and they took the game away from us.”
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