Here in th Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis. Tigers off to another slow start, 24-14 after 1Q against the Nittany Lions. A lot of errant passes, not enough winning 50/50 balls. Refs missed a couple of calls. PSU center Merkle is built like Audi Crooks and Tigers having similar trouble w her
much better start to the 2Q. A Tall 3, more hustle, Merkle picked up her 2nd
Halfway through the 2nd. Deficit cut to 4. Defense up several notches but still some unforced errors. Fadima leads with 9
3 point game. Olivia picked up her 4th midway thru 3rd and Fadima playing w 3
Up 2 after 3. Skye had her best quarter of the season. 18 pts.
still having trouble fronting Merkle, who has 24 pts in 18 minutes. You can’t teach height.
Olivia still sitting with 4.
Hutchinson picked up her 5th on a ticky-tack foul with 8 left. Nweke having a solid game as her replacement. Belker is unconscious, with 23 points with 6:21 to go.
Another Tiger patented fourth quarter. Margin is 10. Tall up to 20.
Tall and Charles are platooning to avoid a 5th foul
Up 97-91 with :32 left. Merkle up to 39 points. A 53pct ft shooter, she just completed a 3 pt play
Haven’t gone back and checked but 193 combined points in regulation has to be a record at least in the past 15+ years?
39 points in 26 minutes!
She’s Audi Crooks with no defensive skills.
the other 4 starters for Penn State were 5’9” or less.
put it together, add the guards making nearly all their 3s and pull up jumpers, and you had 30 minutes of unstoppable offense on our end.
But she makes Audi Crooks look like a normal sized player. On Penn State’s X (fka twitter) feed, there is a short video clip of a Merkle layup (19 of 23) over Taylor Charles.
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No way Penn State would have thought it could lose if it scored 93 points against Princeton. Looks like the difference was free throws: Princeton 19-21, Penn State 7-9.