 Brittany Fuller totaled 21 points and seven rebounds in a 76-50 win over Centenary. |
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (January 8, 2007) – Freshman forward Brittany Fuller (East Rockaway, N.Y.) snapped out of a brief scoring slump in a big way as she poured in 21 points to go along with seven rebound as the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s basketball team rolled to a 76-50 win over Centenary College on Monday at Hackettstown High School. Fuller shot 8-for-17 from the floor and made three three-pointers in the game as the Ducks improved to 10-3 overall and 3-1 in the Skyline Conference.
Leading 7-4 just over three minutes into the game, Stevens rattled off 11 unanswered points in the span of 3:25. Sophomore guard Dani Dudek (Rockaway, N.J.) got things going with a lay-up. Dudek capped the run with a three-pointer to put the Ducks on top 18-4 with 13:33 left in the first half.
Stevens closed out the period on a 14-1 run that became part of a larger 21-1 spurt during an 11-minute stretch bridging the two halves. Fuller started and ended the run for the Ducks with a pair of baskets – the latter of which put Stevens ahead 44-15 with 18:04 remaining in the game. The Ducks led by as many as 41 points in the second half. Junior forward Dora Enright (Longmont, Colo.) gave Stevens its biggest lead of the game when she drained a jumper to put the Ducks on top 62-21 with 11:43 to play.
Enright finished with nine points and seven rebounds. Freshman guard/forward Sarah Gehring (Spokane, Wash.) registered her first career double-double (11 points, 13 rebounds). Dudek had 10 points, 10 rebounds and five assists. She shot 4-for-7 from the field. Junior guard Jean Matusiak (Queens, N.Y.) made 11 of 12 free throws in the contest. She ended up with 15 points, three rebounds and three assists.
For the game, Stevens shot 37.9 percent (25-for-66) from the floor. Centenary (5-3, 1-3) made just 20 of 71 field-goal attempts (28.2 percent). The Ducks were six of 15 from downtown while the Cyclones were 7-for-29 from behind the arc. Stevens owned a 60-37 advantage on the boards and made 20 of 27 free throws overall.
The Ducks will be back in action on Wednesday when they host St. Joseph’s College at 6 p.m.