Bean Town Times

Women's Basketball Completes Comeback Over Clark, 73-68

THE BASICS 

Score: Emerson 74, Clark 68

Records: Emerson Lions (8-14, 3-3 NEWMAC) ; Clark Cougars (10-13, 1-7 NEWMAC)

Location: Boston, Mass. (Brown & Plofker Gym) 

Date: February 8, 2023

The Lead: The Emerson women's basketball played comeback ball and used a 21-point effort from junior Ella Bushee followed by three more double-digit performances from Olivia Deslauriers, Devin Hill and Ava Salti to complete the 74-68 victory over Clark on Wednesday night. 

 

INSIDE THE NUMBERS 

EMERSON

Bushee: 21 points, 12 rebounds 

Deslauriers: 19 points, three assists 

Salti: 12 points, four assists

Hill: 10 points, two blocks

Chelsea Gibbons: three steals

 

CLARK

Alaina Schatzabel: 24 points, 12 rebounds

Sarah Zambrano: 13 points, 12 rebounds, three steals

Cam Richey: 12 points, three steals

Jacqueline Faulise: 11 points, three steals, two blocks

 

HOW IT HAPPENED 

• Out the gate of the first, Emerson found themselves in a seven-point hole and soon faced an 11-point deficit with 4:57 on the clock on Zambrano's pull up jumper. Hill and Gibbons registered four points to pull Emerson within seven, but Clark used an 8-2 spurt to separate themselves by 13 at 23-10. 
• Junior Quinn O'Connor got two free throws at the four second mark and put Emerson with 11 at the end of the first with the score at 23-12. 
• Emerson continued to trail from a double-digit margin through the first four and a half minutes of the second, but capitalized on a three missed shots by the Cougars to embark on 12-2 spurt and inch within a pair at 31-29. 
• Clark got three quick points in the final 48 seconds of the second frame as Emerson entered the break down five, 34-29.
• The opening two minutes of the third saw Clark string a 9-2 together as Emerson once again fell to within double-digits at 43-31 when Schatzabel laid in a layup at 7:58. 
• At the 6:37 mark, Emerson began to battle back and chipped away at Clark's once dominant lead over the next six minutes. The Lions embarked on a 19-8 tear that consisted of nine points from Bushee and Deslauriers' pair of triples and allowed the hosts to claw within one at 51-50. 
• With eight seconds left in the third, Richey dropped a jumper and put Emerson within three with the score 53-50 to wrap the quarter. 
• 2:25 went by in the fourth with no scoring before Schatzabel's free throw trip broke the scoreless run at 7:34 and lifted Clark back up five at 55-50. 
• Down nine after Mariah Harris' jumper fell through (63-54), Emerson used the perimeter to erase Clark's lead and used back-to-back trifecta from Deslauriers and Salti to ignite a 15-2 spark.
• Emerson's 15-2 spark pushed them in front for the first time all game with the run capped off by Salti's fourth three-point bucket and sat in front by four at 69-65 with 1:37 left in the fourth. 
• Clark used their next possession to drain a three of their own and put the score at 69-68 just 13 seconds later. This, however, would ultimately become the Cougar's final bucket of regulation. 
• In the final 53 seconds of the fourth, Emerson cashed in the final five points to complete the 74-68 comeback victory. 

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