Feb. 13, 2005
Fairfax, Va.-Old Dominion kept its flawless recordover George Mason University's women's basketball team on Sundayafternoon as the Monarchs claimed a 66-49 victory at the Patriot Centerto put the all-time record at 36-0. With this win, ODU improves to 14-7and 10-2 in CAA play, while the Patriots fall to 9-13 overall and 5-8 inleague action.
Old Dominion senior guard Shareese Grant opened up the scoring 15seconds into the game as she made a jumper off of an assist from juniorforward Lawona Davis. The closest Mason would get to the Monarchs wastwo points after sophomore forward Tracy Ann Holness (Brooklyn, N.Y.)made a fastbreak lay-up at the 11:50 mark to put the score at 10-8 infavor of ODU. The Monarchs had their largest lead of the first half atthe break, 33-15, as they held the Patriots to a season-low first halfpoint total.
The Monarchs continued the trend in the second half as they maintainedtheir lead for the second 20 minutes of the game. ODU had its biggestlead of 25 (50-25) after a made lay-up by Grant at the 8:31 mark. ThePatriots closed the gap to 17 points three times in the last fiveminutes, which was the closest Mason could get to the Monarchs in thesecond stanza.
Senior center Julie Flanders (St. Thomas, V.I.) netted 13 points aftershooting 5-8 from the field, while Holness also scored 13 for thePatriots. Forward Moni Akintunde (Fr.; Laurel, Md.) scored in doublefigures for Mason with 10 and was one shy of a double-double as shegrabbed a team-high nine boards against the Monarchs.
Grant led all scorers with 17 points after shooting 80 percent on theafternoon, while freshman forward Tiffany Green added 15 points and nineboards for ODU. Sophomore forward Tish Lyons netted double digits aswell with 10, while Davis dished out a game-high five assists.
Mason shot 27 percent (16-60) on the afternoon as ODU was 27-52 from thefield (52 percent). The Monarchs edged out Mason in the reboundingcategory, 38-36, and ODU also scored more points off of turnovers, 18-11.