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Post by jaystag13 on Mar 8, 2015 13:27:01 GMT -5
I think the foxes really picked up the defense near the end of the half there. We need to limit coffey's looks and grab some bounds, and they come out on top. Lets go lady stags!
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Post by jaystag13 on Mar 8, 2015 14:10:43 GMT -5
wheres Casey Smith This Half? Not on the bench either. Hope shes alright!
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Post by FU73 on Mar 8, 2015 14:22:46 GMT -5
Stags lose 50-67
Stags shot 30% FG and 63% FT but outrebounded Marist 38/31
Kristin Schatzlein with 11 points and 5 boards Samantha Cooper with 10 points and 7 boards Kristine Miller with 8 points and 7 boards Kelsey Carey with 8 points and 7 boards Casey Smith with 2 points in only 17 minutes and did not play in the second half?
Stags finish the season at (15-16)(13-7) with a losing record for the first time with Joe Frager as head coach. Does not look good for another WBI postseason?
Stags lose only Felicia DaCruz to graduation and will return a much more experienced team for 2015-2016.
Marist will get another NCAA bid or at least the WNIT bid tomorrow.
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Post by FU73 on Mar 8, 2015 16:25:25 GMT -5
A class act by Joe Frager in his post game comments: Fairfield cut a Marist lead that was as high as 19 in the second half to 11 with 3:47 to play but could not come all the way back. “I’m very proud of the way they battled,” Head Coach Joe Frager said. “That was during the stretch where we were pressing, we got several stops and able to get some scores. I can’t fault our team at all. They went through a very rough patch, they could have packed it in, they didn’t, they battled for every possession going down the stretch. They were very frustrated because they really wanted this one, but that’s why you play them, you never know how they are going to turn out.”....
Last year’s MAAC Tournament MVP Sydney Coffey converted a four-point play which put the game at 31-26 with 3:59 to play. “That’s a big swing there,” Coach Frager said. “It’s not easy to spot Marist a double-digit lead, we’re not a big pressing team so it takes us out of our comfort zone.”....
Kristin Schatzlein was one of the bright spot in the half for the Stags, scoring a team-high nine points and going a perfect 3-3 from deep. However, the Red Foxes focused in on the sharp shooter in the final frame and for the rest of the game she was not given an inch to set up. “They weren’t letting me touch the ball,” Schatzlein said. “They were having screens they were switching out on me and I just couldn’t touch the ball as much I couldn’t shoot.”...“Honestly I just have to be proud of myself and my team of how well we did,” Samantha Cooper said. “Starting 1-8 and 2-10 we could have just packed it in but we came back from it. I think we have to look at the season as a whole and I’m just really proud of the group and how we did.” “A lot of credit to Sam from coming back off double knee surgery,” Coach Frager said. “That’s not easy but she had to work hard to come back from that.”....Coach Frager got choked up when talking about the loss of DaCruz. “She’s meant a lot,” he said before pausing. “She’s given us absolutely everything that she’s had. Even when we took her out of the game she was saying to the players on the bench ‘don’t forget how this feels right now, learn from this.’ She was thinking about those guys as opposed to herself with 50 seconds to go in her college career.”... “A lot of people just do that simple math, well you only lost one and you bring back four so you’re going to be really good. But that’s not how it works,” Frager said. “These guys need to work really hard, we need to get physically stronger in the weight room, they need to add something to their game, and I know they will. They’ll work very hard.”[i] Box Score:www.fairfieldstags.com/fls/32500/Stats/WBB/2014-15/maacw9.htmFYI:Casey Smith had to leave the game at halftime after experiencing concussion like symptoms after an inadvertent elbow in the final play of the first half left a gash on her head. With only two points before her injury, Smith fell three points shy of tying the Stags’ all-time rookie scoring record that has now stood for 17 years by Fairfield great Lisa Mikelic. There is no doubt that Casey Smith would have set a new all-time rookie record but her health and total recovery is more important and she will do greater things next season.
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Post by FU73 on Mar 8, 2015 17:49:50 GMT -5
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Post by sobro on Mar 8, 2015 19:25:14 GMT -5
All in all, a positive experience for the Stags. Played a ridiculously difficult non conference schedule and took their lumps, but it surely paid off in conference play. Congratulations to Coach Frager, his staff, and his team. Now, GET THEM A REAL PLACE TO PLAY!
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