Team comparison
Ball State:
Field goal percentage: 40.7
Rebounds: 30
Turnovers: 11
Bench points: 10
Largest lead: 2
Akron:
Field goal percentage: 44.6
Rebounds: 46
Turnovers: 11
Bench points: 19
Largest lead: 25
The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to Akron in the Mid-American Conference Championship game today.
The Cardinals lost 68-79 despite a late 14-2 scoring run fueled by junior guard Brittany Carter’s four three-point field goals. Akron’s largest lead of the game was 25 points.
Though Ball State’s only lead was a 4-2 advantage early in the game, the teams exchanged baskets for most of the first half. Ball State’s first four points came at the hands of senior point guard Brandy Woody.
Woody would go on to score 15 points on 6-of-17 shooting in the loss. Six rebounds and three assists helped to offset her 1-for-6 three-point field goal shooting performance.
Ball State trailed Akron 30-33 with 4:28 remaining in the first half. The Zips’ Rachel Tecca scored four baskets in the final three minutes to give Akron an 11-point lead at the break.
It was much of the same for Akron after the intermission. The Zips finished the game with a 46-30 rebounding advantage over the Cardinals.
Ball State was playing its fifth game in six days and looked to be gassed late in the second half. Akron also shot a higher percentage from the field and three-point range as a team.
The Zips hit 80 percent of free throw attempts as well, outdoing Ball State’s 60 percent. Both teams attempted just 15 free throws in the game.
Though Carter was just 1-of-4 from the free throw line, she was 8-of-14 from the floor. She led Ball State with 23 points, six made three-pointers and seven rebounds.
Sophomore forward Nathalie Fontaine contributed 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor.
Freshman center Renee Bennett added seven points and five rebounds in 15 minutes of play time.
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