7` JMU Game Summaries 2011-12 Game 1: JMU 81, Quinnipiac 73 AU Leaders: Lisa Strack leading scorer with 13… Stephanie Anya double-double with 10 points and team-high 10 rebounds. Game Flow: JMU trailed by as many as 5 (9:18 1st)… took 22-21 lead at Of Note: 200th career win for Kenny Brooks, in only his 10th season of 6:14 and did not trail after that… led by 22 (59-37 at 9:59) and then by coaching. only 1 (67-66 at 3:43)… in the next 2:36, Quinnipiac was 0-6 FGs with 3 turnovers while JMU scored 10 points on FTs (10-12, Tarik Hislop 5-6, Lauren Whitehurst 3-4, Tanica Anderson 2-2) to build lead to 11 (77- 66) with 38 seconds left JMU Stats Standouts: Hislop tied then-career-high with 20 points, Whitehurst then career-high 17 points (6-7 FG, 5-8 FT) & 6 rebounds… in her 1st career start Kirby Burkholder 10 points, team-high 7 rebounds. Quinnipiac Leaders: Felicia Barron leading scorer with 14… Camryn Warner double-double with 12 points and game-high 11 rebounds. Game 3: JMU 61, Maryland-Eastern Shore 53 Game Flow: JMU led by 9 at 9:03 of 1st and was up 35-27 at half… UMES cut lead to 3 (38-35) at 16:35 of 2nd but got no closer. JMU Stats Standouts: Kirby Burkholder 16 points, all in 1st… Tarik Hislop 16 points… Jasmine Gill then season-high 13 points & 8 rebounds… Nikki Newman game-high 9 rebounds. Game 2: JMU 68, American 64 (2 OT) UMES Leaders: Chelsea Sanders leading scorer with 14 and team-high 7 rebounds… Caitlyn Dillard Anya 10 points. "To win on the road in college basketball is one of the hardest things to Of Note: 13th straight home win do. You have the elements, you have the atmosphere against you, coming into a gym you've never been in before. The crowd's screaming against you. These kids have some resiliency, and they stayed together." - Kenny Brooks Game Flow: 12 ties, 15 lead changes… JMU up by 9 in 1st (23-14 at 4:59), up 25-23 at half… AU led by 8 at 12:59 2nd… tied 54 end of regulation & tied 60 end of 1st OT… Dukes outscored AU 8-4 in 2nd OT. JMU Stats Standouts: Tarik Hislop then-career-high 22 points, including the game's final 5 pts & 7 seven of the 14 OT pts (2-3 FG, 3-4 FT in OT)… Jasmine Gill 10 points, Lauren Whitehurst 9 pts, game- high 13 rebounds before fouling out with 8 secs left in regulation. JMU Game Summaries 2011-12 Game 3: JMU 61, Maryland-Eastern Shore 53 con't Game 5: JMU 62, Liberty 58 Game Flow: 1st half: Liberty ran off 9 unanswered points to take a 9-2 Game 4: JMU 60, Middle Tennessee State 46 lead at 14:08... trailing 11-5 at 12:30, JMU scored 17 straight to lead 22- 11 with 5:01 to play (Nikki Newman hit two 3s, Jasmine Gill scored 7 "One of the top three defensive efforts we've ever had" - Kenny Brooks and Tarik Hislop added 4)… Liberty outscored JMU 10-7 in the final 4:38 of the half, which ended with the Dukes up 29-21… JMU's largest lead Game Flow: JMU trailed only once (4-2 at 17:57)… led by as many as 13 was 11, twice (last 28-17 at 2:38). twice in 1st half… was up 30-19 at half… MTSU cut lead to 5 twice in 2nd (last 39-34 at 10:21) but got no closer… Dukes held double-digit lead for 2nd half: Liberty outscored JMU 14-7 to open half, finishing run with 6 final 7:45 straight to cut lead to 1, 36-35, at 14:05… JMU went on 12-2 run (Gill 8 points, Hislop 4 points) to take its largest lead of the half, 48-37, at JMU Stats Standouts: Jasmine Gill then season-high 18 points… 12:05… with Liberty still down by 9 (52-43) at 7:58, Flames used 9-2 run Kirby Burkholder 14 points, 9 rebounds … Lauren Whitehurst 11 to get within 2, 54-52, at 3:07 (Warley 1st four points, Brown layup off a points, 10 rebounds for her 1st double-double of season & 4th JMU long pass from Danika Dale, and Reagan Miller capped run with her only career double-double… Nikki Newman game-high 9 rebounds … Tarik 3 of game). Hislop season-high 7 assists in 1st game not in double figures (7 points) Down the Stretch: 16-foot jumper by Hislop followed by a layup by MTSU Leaders: Ebony Rowe leading scorer with 14… Icelyn Elie Lauren Whitehurst off a Hislop pass put the Dukes up 58-52 at 2:20… double-double with 12 points and game-tying-high 10 rebounds. Flames cut the lead to 60-58 after a Warley layup at 1:28 followed by two Of Note: 46 pts was a low for both MTSU and a JMU opponent this FTs throws by Brown with 55 seconds left… Gill knocked down 18-foot season… 14th straight home win for JMU. jumper with 34.5 seconds left to push lead to 62-58. On Liberty's next possession, Miller missed a layup and then Warley missed an attempted put-back, and JMU's Nikki Newman got the rebound with 23 seconds left. Liberty, which only had 3 team fouls, fouled 4 times in less than 5 seconds, finally sending Hislop to the foul line for a 1+1 at 18.6 seconds. After a Hislop miss, the Dukes' defense kept Liberty from getting anything but a desperation 3-point heave by Brown with 6 seconds remaining. JMU Game Summaries 2011-12 Game 5: JMU 62, Liberty 58 con't Of Note: Towson beat JMU for only the third time in 31 meetings… Towson's other two wins came on Jan. 29, 2009 (61-51) and on Feb. 4, JMU Stats Standouts: Gill matched her career high with 24 points… 1984 (75-67). Hislop scored 20, two below her then-career high….With Whitehurst on JMU lost its first game of the season… Towson, whose only losses had the bench in foul trouble, Rachel Connely played a career-high 28 mins, come to Top 25 teams Maryland and Connecticut, upped its record to 5-2. had 7 points and 5 rebounds (each 1 below her career high), 3-4 FGs, 1-2 FTs, 1 block. JMU shot a then season-low 32 percent (22-69) from the floor, while Towson shot a then-JMU opponent season-high 42 percent (19-46)… Liberty Leaders: Avery Warley had a team-high 18 points and also the Dukes outscored Towson 46-40 from the field, but the Tigers won the eight rebounds… Devon Brown the only other Flame scoring in double game at the foul line, where they held a 25-12 advantage… Towson hit 76 figures with 113… Dale & Brown game's top rebounders with nine percent (25-33) from the free-throw line, while JMU hit 67 percent (12- apiece. 18)… Towson's Krystal Parnell led the way, converting 11 of 15 attempts… JMU took 23 more FGAs (69-46) but was out-rebounded 45- 38. Towson Leaders: Five in double figures, 2 with double-doubles (Deree Fooks 13-13 and Nyree Williams 11-14)… other double-figure scorers Krystal Parnell (13), Tanisha McTiller (12), Krystin Fields (12). Game 6: Towson 65, JMU 58 "Towson out-played us; they deserved to win." - Kenny Brooks Game Flow: Towson jumped out to an 18-10 lead at 11:02 in 1st, scoring 10 of those points in the paint and another four at the foul line… JMU outscored Towson 15-6 over 4:17 to take its only lead of the game, 25-24, at 6:42 of 1st… Debbie Smith scored five and Crystal Ross four of the 15 JMU points…. Dukes' starter Nikki Newman sat out most of the half after picking up her second foul at 13:38…. Only player in double figures at half was Towson's Nyree Williams with 10… Towson's Deree Fooks had nine points and nine rebounds at half. Towson scored first four points of 2nd half and led by as many as eight on two occasions, the last time 49-41 at 9:03… with Towson leading by six, 53-47 at 4:52, JMU outscored the Tigers 7-1 to tie the game at 54-54 at 2:26… Tarik Hislop scored the last four points of the run, the last on a steal followed by a layup… Towson outscored JMU 9-2 in the final 1:16, with all of the Tigers' points coming at the foul line, where Towson converted nine of 10 tries. JMU Stats Standouts: Tarik Hislop led all scorers with 14 points and also made three steals… one of three Dukes to score in double figures, joined by Lauren Whitehurst with 12 and Jasmine Gill with 10…. Whitehurst and Nikki Newman had eight rebounds apiece. JMU Game Summaries 2011-12 Game 7: JMU 64, Maine 47 CCSU scored the first four points of the second half to pull within three, 38-35, at 18:35… JMU used a 9-5 run to build its biggest lead of the half, Game Flow: JMU never trailed in the game… the Dukes outscored 57-48, at 11:03… Lauren Whitehurst scored 10 of JMU's first 19 points Maine 24-6 over a 10-minute span to take an 18-point (26-8) lead with of the half, including eight of the Dukes' first 10 points… CCSU rallied to 8:50 left in the opening half… JMU entered halftime leading by 17, 34-17, cut the margin to two, 60-58, with 5:56 remaining… Kirsten Daamen after shooting 37 percent (15-41) while limiting Maine to 23 percent (7-30) scored the final four points in a 9-5 run that got the Blue Devils within shooting from the floor… Maine scored the first six points of the second two… in a span of 4:33, Nikki Newman had four rebounds, scored back- half, cutting the JMU lead to 11 (34-23), but got no closer… the Black to-back layups (at 5:35 and 4:33) and hit a foul shot as JMU built a 69-62 Bears turned the ball over 24 times, including 16 times in the first half, lead with 52 seconds to play.