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Notre Dame
No. 3 Notre Dame Runs Past IPFW 96-60
12/8/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 8, 2009
Notre Dame, IN - Despite a game- and career-high 24 point effort from sophomore Anne Boese, the IPFW Mastodons fell victim to the strength and speed of the No. 3 (Associated Press Poll) ranked Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday evening by a 96-60 final score.
Boese scored her 24 points of 7-of-10 shooting for the game, making 6-of-8 attempts from long range, and all four of her free throws. Chelsey Jackson added 11 points, with Rosado pulling down seven rebounds for tops on the squad. Jordan Zuppe dished out three assists, while also grabbing three steals for most on the team.
Notre Dame jumped out quickly to start the game, scoring the contest's first six points before Boese made her first three-point basket two and a half minutes in, cutting the deficit in half at 6-3. Four more Irish points were countered by Boese's second three-point basket dropped the Notre Dame lead to four at 10-6.
With the Fighting Irish ahead by six at 17-11, IPFW rattled off seven straight points on a Sydney Weinert lay-in, another Boese three-point basket, and a jumper by Chelsey Jackson gave IPFW a one-point lead at 18-17 with 10:18 remaining in the first half.
The teams were tied at 21 with eight and a half minutes left when Notre Dame scored nine straight points to lead 30-21, while another 6-0 run pushed the hosts' lead to double digits at 13 with just under two minutes left in the half, as the Irish went into the locker room at halftime with a 13-point, 41-28 lead.
A 13-4 run to start the half put Notre Dame up by 22, as the Mastodon deficit never dipped below 20 the rest of the way, as the Irish used their power to dominate over the final 20 minutes in the 96-60 game at the Purcell Pavilion.
With their first three-point basket, IPFW clinched their 323rd straight game with a three-point basket, which is ranked as the fifth longest streak in NCAA Division I.
Becca Bruszewski led five Irish players in double figures with 18, as Lindsay Schrader added 14, Ashley Barlow 12, Erica Williamson 11, and Natalie Novosel 10.
The Mastodons look to rebound with a road game at the University of Toledo on Saturday, as the team will tip-off at 2:00 PM on December 12 at Savage Arena.
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