#4 Stags vs. #5 Monmouth in MAAC Quarterfinal Round

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The #4 Stags take on #5 Monmouth in the MAAC Quarterfinal Round on Saturday at 2:30 pm. Fairfield has an all-time record of 17-9 in the Quarterfinal Round games, with their last victory coming last season over #6 Niagara, 65-57. The Stags haven't played a game in the last 8 days since February 26th and also lost their last three games of the MAAC Regular Season to the top three teams in the league (Quinnipiac, Marist and Iona).

FAIRFIELD VS MONMOUTH: The Stags and the Hawks will meet in the MAAC tournament for the first-time ever, as Monmouth enters the conference tournament for the third time as a conference member. The Stags swept Monmouth in the regular season for the first time during those three seasons, with their latest win coming at home on Senior Day. Kelsey Carey led the Stags in those two win, totaling 45 points in just 58 minutes while shooting 53 percent from the floor. Kristin Schatzlein filled out the box score with 16.5 points, 7.0 assists, and 5.5 rebounds.

THE HAWKS SCOUTING REPORT: Monmouth might have a little magic on their side, as they clinched a first-round bye after winning their final four games, and needed some help with three Manhattan and Siena losses during that span. The Hawks are not the same team they showed in their last loss against the Stags. Monmouth is a tremendous 3-point shooting team, averaging nearly eight made per game. They only attempted one 3-pointer in the second half in the last meeting against the Stags, a number that will certainly rise. All-MAAC Second Team member Sarah Olson leads the squad in that category, hitting 2.4 long range shots per contest. Monmouth leads the conference grabbing 39.8 rebounds per game, none better than 6-4 mismatch Christina Mitchell who is third in the conference with 9.1 rebounds per game, a number that is 36th nationally. This season, the Hawks are 8-3 when out-rebounding an opponent.

UP NEXT: If the Stags advance to the Semifinal Round they will take on the winner of #1 Quinnipiac and #8 Niagara on Sunday at 11am.

Live Stats:
www.statbroadcast.com/events/tournament.php?tid=351

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Stags up 16-15 at the end of the First Quarter shooting 47% FG 7/15

Monmouth with 3 three pointers 3/9 and Stags with none 0/3

Casey Smith with 8 points shooting 100% FG 4/4 and 2 boards
Kelsey Carey with 6 points and 1 board
Lizzy Ball with 2 points and 4 assists
Sam Cooper with 0 points but 5 boards
Kristin Schatzlein with 0 points on 0/1 from 3 points

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Stags down 28-16

Monmouth starts the Second Quarter with an 13-0 run and Stags go scoreless for over 6 minutes of the 10 minute quarter.

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Stags down 34-18 at the half shooting just 25% FG 8/32. An upset in the making?

Stags with just 1 basket in 10 minutes and outscored 19/2 in the quarter.

Monmouth 4/14 from behind the arc while Stags are 0/8.

Monmouth 14 bench points and Stags with 0.

Shots aren't falling:
Kristin Schatzlein 0/4
Sam Cooper 0/3
Kristine Miller 0/3
Kristen McLaughlin 0/2

[stagthomas]

I'm sitting here at the TUC sick to my stomach. Can't believe we are getting massacred by Monmouth.

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thomas, The Stags are now shooting just 20% FG and Monmouth is 5/17 from 3 pts. and Stags are 0/11

Kristin Schatzlein is the #2 scorer on the team with 11.6 ppg and has no points on 0/5 FG and 0/4 from 3 pts.
Sam Cooper is the #4 scorer on the team with 8.7 ppg and is 1/6 FG and 0/4 from 3 pts. so far today

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Stags down 28-50 at the end of the Third Quarter with Monmouth shooting 43% FG and the Stags just 21% FG.

Monmouth outscores the Stags 16/10 in the quarter and 35/12 in the last 20 minutes of play.

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Stags lose 46-64. The 1 basket Second Quarter did them in. Stags finish at (16-14)(11-9).

This season the Stag offense average was 59.2 ppg and the Stag defense average was 58.4 ppg but unfortunately not today.

STAT Monmouth - FAIRFIELD
FG%: 42% - 27%
FGs: 22-52 - 17-62
3FG%: 25% - 18%
3FGs: 5-20 - 3-17
FT%: 71% - 69%
FTs: 15-21 - 9-13
TOs: 16 - 16
PtsOffTO: 13 - 10
TotReb: 43 - 38
DefReb: 36 - 27
Off Reb: 7 - 11
2ndChPts: 14 - 4
BenchPts: 24 - 2
PtsPaint: 32 - 20
FstBkPt: 4 - 3
Blocks: 5 - 2
Steals: 8 - 7
Assts: 4 - 12

# Player: PTS FG 3FG FT REB A PF
01* BALL: 2 1-4(.25) 0-0 0-0 3 8 2
11* COOPER: 10 4-13(.307) 2-9 0-3 12 1 3
21* SMITH: 14 5-12(.416) 0-0 4-5 3 2 3
23* CAREY: 15 5-18(.277) 0-0 5-5 3 0 2
40* SCHATZLEIN: 3 1-6(.166) 1-5 0-0 2 1 2
03 STOCK: 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
05 HOLLENSHEAD: 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
12 ORTS: 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
13 DIOUF: 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
14 FOLEY: 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
15 MCLAUGHLIN: 2 1-4(.25) 0-3 0-0 3 0 2
20 LANDY: 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
24 MILLER: 0 0-3 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
25 MCCARTHY: 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0

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Box Score:
www.maacsports.com/fls/17400/Box%20Scores/2016%20Basketball_/MAACW7.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=17400

[vastagman]

Disappointing end for the pre-season MAAC favorite.

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The Stags scored two points in the second quarter and shot 3-for-32 during a 20-minute stretch and fell to the fifth-seeded Monmouth Hawks 64-46 in the Quarterfinals of the 2016 MAAC Tournament.

“I’m really happy with how hard we were working on the defensive end,” said Monmouth Head Coach Jenny Palmateer. “To hold them to two points (in the second quarter) was fairly amazing. They shoot a great percentage, typically, as a team. They have a lot of offensive threats and our kids just really battled and were able to play defense without fouling, which I think was a huge thing for us today.”

“Monmouth is too good of a basketball team for us to go through the drastic drought that we had in the second quarter,” Head Coach Joe Frager said. “That was tough to battle back from.”...


“In that second quarter we had four or five really good looks,” Frager said. “If a couple of those shots dropped, it’s not such a wipeout quarter. The game is much more in reach and much more manageable in those circumstances. When we missed a few of those open shots, we got a little bit panicky and a little of our decision making went that way.”...

Kristin Schatzlein will go down as one of the best shooters in program history and showed her competitive toughness today, playing in a game despite being hobbled by an injury that forced her status to be questionable until game time.

The Stags will return three starters to a team next year that Coach Frager hopes shows another quality: toughness.

“They’re a great group of young women there’s no doubt about that,” Frager said. “They’re a bunch of great kids. From a coaching standpoint I’d like to see them get a bit nastier. We’re going to place a big emphasis on physical strength in the offseason. I do think three or four of the teams physically shoved us around a little bit. That’s going to change next year.”...

The Stags will await to see if their season will continue, as Fairfield hopes to get selected for a spot in the Women’s Basketball Invitational (WBI). If they don’t, this loss concludes a season where the Stags finished with a winning MAAC record for the 10th-straight season, nine of those coming under Frager, the only coach in MAAC history to do that to begin a career.