Strong First Quarter Secures Win for Army

Wednesday, January 16

West Point, NY

11 AM

Army West Point

7-9, 2-3PL

Lafayette

6-10, 1-4PL

Lafayette

Army West Point

Strong First Quarter Secures Win for Army

January 16, 2019 | Women's Basketball

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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Thanks to an impressive first quarter, the Army West Point women's basketball team earned a 65-50 victory over Lafayette in Patriot League action on Wednesday.

Army hosted around 1,500 local young students as part of Education Day at West Point and didn't disappoint with its second league win of the year.

Madison Hovren finished with another double-double with a game high 23 points and 16 rebounds, while classmate Jess Lewis tied a career best with 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the floor. Lewis also dished out seven assists in the win, which was one off her career high. As a team, the Black Knight shot 41 percent from the field and had an advantage of 12-3 in points off of turnovers.

The Leopards had three players in double figures, led by Drew Freeland with 13, while Natalie Kucowski added 13 and Olivia Martino had 12.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

This was the 65th meeting between Army and Lafayette in the all-time series.
Army made it eight in a row against the Leopards with today's win.
The Black Knights lead the all-time series at 41-24 and it was the 25 win over Lafayette at home in the series.
Jessica Rawls made the sixth start of her career for the Black Knights.
Morgann Yancey has started in each of Army's last eight games.
Sarah Bohn was in the starting five for the second time and first since the game against Loyola on Jan. 6.
Hovren reached double digits in scoring for the 14th time this season and 68th time in her career.
It was her sixth game this season with 20-plus points and 24th time in her career.
Hovren is now in sole possession of fifth place on Army's all-time scoring list with 1,448 career points after scoring 23 today.
Hovren tallied her 12th double-double of the season and the 45th of her career.
Lewis reached double digits in scoring for the eighth time this season.
She had 20 or more points for the second time this year and third time in her career.
Lewis recorded five or more assists in a game for the 12th time in her career and seventh this year.
Lewis posted over five assists for the eight time this year and her seven today were one off her career best.
Sarah Bohn set career highs in rebounds (4), assists (4) and steals (3).
Army is now 6-0 when scoring at least 60 points and 7-0 when allowing under 60 points this season.
The Black Knights are now 5-1 when shooting over 40 percent from the floor.
All off Army's wins have been by 10 or more points this season.
The Black Knights had less than 10 turnovers for the first time since Feb. 21, 2018 against Colgate.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Quarter

Army played a great defensive first quarter allowing only two points, while Hovren, Lewis and Murray chipped in with four points each as the Black Knights had a 15-2 lead at the end of one period.

Second Quarter

The Leopards were able to cut the Army lead to six points with 2:13 left in the quarter. Kucowski had six points in the quarter for Lafayette and Martino had five.
Army answered in the final two minutes with Murray, Hovren and Lewis all hitting shots in a short 6-0 run to take the 27-15 lead at halftime.

Third Quarter

Led by Hovren and Lewis, Army had a 39-23 lead at the 4:41 mark of the third quarter. Lewis hit a pair of 3-pointers and Hovren had six points on a couple of layups, while hitting two free throws as well.
Lafayette scored a quick five points and cut the Army leads to 42-28, but Army answered with 3-pointers from Lewis and Yancey and took a 48-23 lead into the final quarter.

Fourth Quarter

Army trading buckets for most of fourth quarter with the Leopards, but never let them get closer than 14 points as the Black Knights closed out the game for a 65-50 victory to improve in the league standings.

UP NEXT

The Black Knights are back at Christl Arena on Saturday for a 12 p.m. tipoff against Navy on CBS Sports Network. Tickets are still available for the game and this Saturday's contest will not decide the Star for the Army-Navy Star Series, presented by USAA.