NORTHFIELD, VERMONT - Senior Tyechia Cooke scored 14 points and
was named to the All-Tournament team while freshman Tyisha Battle
had 14 points and a game-high seven rebounds as the Apprentice
School lost 86-54 to St. Lawrence University in the finals of the
Hockenbury Tournament at Norwich University.
The Saints, a New York region power and NCAA Division III
Tournament participant, saw the Lady Builders tie the game 2-all on
a Cooke jumper at the 18:42 mark. From then, St. Lawrence
broke the game open with a 22-2 run for a 24-4 lead on an Amy
Fortener jumper with 10:37 left.
St. Lawrence raced out to a 43-17 halftime advantage on the
strength of smoking hot field goal shooting nailing 15-of-27 from
the floor (55.6%), including 6-of-11 (54.5%) from 3-point
range. In the second half, the Lady Builders got into the hot
shooting range connecting on 15-of-29 from the field (51.7%), but
the Saints continued hitting 50% from the floor (15-of-30).
Junior Rahshann Lewter added 11 points for Apprentice School
(2-4) who will return to action on Thursday night with a matchup at
Washington & Lee University.
ST. LAWRENCE 86, APPRENTICE SCHOOL 54
APPRENTICE SCHOOL (2-4): Blow 0-1 0-0 0, Cooke 7-13 0-1 14,
Battle 4-10 6-7 14, Jones 2-8 0-0 5, Lewter 5-11 1-2 11, Brandon
3-5 0-1 6, Gerald 2-4 0-0 4, Williams 0-3 0-0 0, Henderson 0-2 0-2
0. Totals 23-57 7-13 54.
ST. LAWRENCE (6-1): Krzemien 5-6 0-0 10, Wolff 6-11 4-5 21,
Sikule 2-4 2-2 6, Sischo 2-9 2-2 8, Palmer 6-9 5-5 18, Joudoin 0-0
0-0 0, Stanton 1-4 5-6 7, Parham 1-5 0-0 2, Gordon 0-0 0-0 0,
Fortener 6-8 0-0 12, Benzig 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 30-57 18-20 86.
Halftime: St. Lawrence 43-17. 3-point goals: Apprentice
1-5 (Cooke 0-1, Jones 1-2, Gerald 0-1, Henderson 0-1); St. Lawrence
8-17 (Wolff 5-8, Sischo 2-5, Palmer 1-2, Parham 0-2).
Rebounds: Apprentice 37 (Battle 7); St. Lawrence 29 (Palmer
5). Total fouls: Apprentice 17, St. Lawrence 16.
Assists: Apprentice 10 (Lewter 3); St. Lawrence 20 (Wolff, Sischo
4). Technicals: Jones. Att.: 100.
