Nov. 18, 2005
Box Score
LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. -
Six players scored in double figures as the 14th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team opened the 2005-06 season with a 107-66 win at Siena on Friday night in Loudonville, N.Y. The Terps' national player of the year candidate Shay Doron led a high-powered offense, which shot 65 percent from the field, with 23 points.
Maryland (1-0) had two decisive runs in the first half to put the game away early. Ahead 30-16, the Terps scored the next 12 points, capped by a three-point play by sophomore Laura Harper (Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham), to jump ahead, 42-16, with 7:35 remaining in the half. A 9-2 run a minute later gave Maryland its biggest lead of the half, 54-22.
Siena (0-1), who was hosting its first ACC team in program history, tried to put together a run of its own before the end of the half, scoring nine of the next 11 points beginning with a couple of free throws from Naimah Abdullah with 2:49 remaining. However, freshman Kristi Toliver (Harrisonburg, Va./Harrisonburg) silenced the crowd, knocking down her second three-pointer with just six seconds left on the clock, to make the halftime score, 59-31.
In the second half, the Terps continued to dominate the game, on offense and on the boards. Maryland outrebounded the Saints, 42-20, for the evening. The Saints also cooled off in the second half. After shooting 45.8 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, they shot just 32 percent in the second.
The Terrapin lead never dipped below 24 points after the first half and remained above 31 after a freshman Marissa Coleman (Cheltenham, Md./St. John's College [D.C]) layup with 9:22 left in the game, 80-49. Maryland broke 100 points on the first of two free throws by senior Charmaine Carr (Accokeek, Md./Gwynn Park) with just over two minutes to go in the contest.
The Terps, who shot just 32 percent from behind the three-point arc last season, were 6-for-10 on three pointers in the first half, finishing the game shooting 58.3 percent on 7-for-12 shooting.
Doron (Great Neck, N.Y./Christ the King) was 9-for-14 from the field, including 2-for-4 on three pointers. She also had a team-leading seven assists and four steals. Doron needs just 10 points to reach 1,000 for her career.
Toliver had six assists to go with her 16 points. Coleman netted 13 of her 16 points in the second period and had a game-high three blocks in the game.
National player of the year candidate sophomore Crystal Langhorne (Willingboro, N.J./Willingboro) had just four points up until the final five minutes of the game, and got hot down the stretch, tallying nine more to finish with 13 points to go with 10 rebounds.
Sophomore Ashleigh Newman (Shelbyville, Tenn./Shelbyville Area), who was making her first-career start, and Harper each added 11 to round out the double-digit scorers. Newman connected on both her three-point attempts.
Every dressed Terrapin scored in the game. The 107 points scored is the most since a 107-51 win over Towson on Nov. 30, 1991.
The 3,780 fans at the Alumni Recreation Center was a Siena record.
Siena's Katelyn Dooley had a team-high 21 points. Teammates Laura Menty and Lauren Surber had 16 and 15 points, respectively.
Maryland opens the home slate on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at www.umterps.com or at the Comcast Center Ticket Office.
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