Dec. 7, 2008

Box Score

MORGANTOWN - West Virginia's Liz Repella (21 points, 12 rebounds) and Takisha Granberry (10 points, 13 rebounds) each recorded a double-double and Ashley Powell added 10 points as the Duquesne women's basketball team lost its third game in a row Sunday afternoon, 59-41, at the WVU Coliseum.

Keri Pryor led the Dukes with 13 points.

DU started out the game by missing their first six shots and did not score until a Pryor jumper at the 15:21 mark.

Granberry's layup at the midway point of the half broke a 10-10 tie and gave the Mountaineers a lead they would hold the rest of the game.

Duquesne missed all eight of their 3-point attempts and shot just 23.1 percent from the floor in the first half as West Virginia would take a 27-16 lead into halftime.

The Mountaineers began the second half on a 10-2 run to extend their lead to 19 points at the 15:23 mark.

Back-to-back 3-pointers by Repella gave WVU their largest lead of the game, 21 points, at 43-22 with 13:35 remaining.

DU came back with an 11-0 run led by Kristi Little who scored seven of those points. Pryor's layup with 9:22 left in the game cut WVU's to 10 points at 43-33.

West Virginia answered Duquesne's run by scoring 11 of the game's next 12 points to build an insurmountable 20-point lead at 54-34 with 6:10 left.

A Peck layup closed out the scoring with the Dukes falling 59-41.

"Today's game was truly a struggle from the get-go," said Duquesne head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio. "We were out hustled, out rebounded and had a hard time in every aspect of the game."

The Dukes finished the game with season-lows in seven different categories including shooting 25.9 percent from the floor and making just five percent (1-of-20) of their 3-pointers.

"We have a week to get back on track," added McConnell-Serio, whose team had a week off before visiting cross-town rival Robert Morris next Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

GAME NOTES

• This was the 11th consecutive victory for West Virginia in the series. The Mountaineers lead the all-time series 33-7.
  
• Duquesne committed 18 turnovers and recorded just three assists
  
• WVU's 48 rebounds, 45.8 shooting percentage and 40.0 3-point shooting percentage were all opponent season-highs
  
• Morgantown natives Pryor and Peck combined for 54 percent of DU points