OTTAWA (January 17, 2020) - The No. 7 nationally-ranked Queen's Women's Basketball team (8-5) fell to the No. 3 nationally-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gee's (12-2) with a score of 81-71 on Friday night in Ottawa.
GAME FLOW
In a fast paced start, the Gaels struggled to gain any momentum, turning the ball over twice in the first minute of the game. Ottawa's Brigitte Lefebvre scored her first four of 17 points of the night, which gave the Gee-Gee's the lead early on. Queen's began to find their stride after Ottawa ran into foul trouble, keeping the Gaels within six points of the Gee-Gee's. The first quarter finished with Queen's trailing the Gee-Gee's with a score of 22-17.
The Gaels were off to a slow start in the second with Ottawa expanding their lead to nine points. Queen's struggled to find their offensive rhythm with the Gee-Gee's still leading with a score of 42-35 after two quarters of play. The Gaels were lead in the first half by
Emma Ritcey who scored eight points and also collected a rebound.
The third quarter saw the Gaels bring themselves within two points of the Gee-Gee's after
Sophie de Goede was able to score nine points in the first five minutes of the second half. Immediately following de Goede's offensive success, Ottawa went on a run to score eleven consecutive points, stretching their lead to 61-48. With just two minutes left in the third frame, the Gaels responded with
Laura Donovan and
Myriam Fontaine scoring points but it was not enough to close the gap. Moving into the fourth quarter, after Queen's narrowed the Gee-Gee's lead to only ten points, the score was 66-55.
For the bulk of the first half of the fourth quarter, the Gaels and Ottawa were each holding their own defensively with the Gaels only scoring two points and keeping the Gee-Gee's to just nine points. Ottawa would stretch their lead out to as many as 21 points, but the Gaels worked quickly, scoring 10 points which cut the lead back down to 10. The Gee-Gee's were able to hold onto their lead to defeat Queen's with a score of 81-71.
Leading the way for the Gaels in scoring was
Sophie de Goede and
Julia Chadwick, each with 12 points.
Julia Chadwick also lead the way with nine rebounds and three assists. The Gee-Gee's were led by Brooklynn McAlear-Fa who scored 19 points and had four assists.
MUST SEE
Fontaine with a three
BY THE NUMBERS
9 - The Gaels secured nine steals as compared to the Gee-Gee's eight.
23 - The Gaels bench scored 23 of their total 71 points.
12 - The number of points scored by
Julia Chadwick and
Sophie de Goede who lead the way for the Gaels
19- Brooklynn McAlear-Fa of Ottawa lead the Gee-Gee's with 19 points.
UP NEXT
Tomorrow, Saturday, January 18, the Gaels will continue on the road to face off against the Carleton Raven's in Ottawa. Tip off is set for 6pm and this game can be live streamed anywhere from OUA.tv.
