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Rosado Helps Puerto Rico to CAC Gold Medal
7/26/2010 11:49:57 AM | Women's Basketball
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico - Following up Puerto Rico's Gold Medal at the Centrobasket Championships, the same National Team, including IPFW rising junior Stephanie Rosado, took Gold again, this time at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Rosado averaged 9.4 points per game in just under 21 minutes of action, starting all five games, making 48 percent (19-of-40) of her field goals, and all seven of her free throw tries. She also blocked nine shots, second best on the team, and dished out seven assists. Rosado's nine blocked shots gave her the fifth best average, and her field goal percentage was sixth best in the tournament.
Puerto Rico, who swept through the Centrobasket tournament with an undefeated record, did the same with the Central American and Caribbean games, winning the opener over Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 118-24 on July 18, before topping the Virgin Islands 82-55 a day later. Trinidad and Tobago was the next victim, falling 84-42 on July 20. In the semi-finals, Puerto Rico dispatched of Jamaica 63-44, before earning the Gold with a 69-58 win over the Dominican Republic.
After reaching double figure scoring in every game of the Centrobasket Championships, Rosado failed to record double digits in the scoring column for the first four games of the tournament, scoring nine and pulling down five rebounds against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, scoring nine with three rebounds against the Virgin Islands, eight points and four boards against Trinidad and Tobago, and just two points and one rebound, playing her fewest minutes of the tournament due to foul trouble, in the semi-final against Jamaica.
Rosado rebounded from her worst performance of the summer, and recorded her best outing in the biggest game of the tournament for Puerto Rico, scoring 19 points and pulling down 10 rebounds in the Gold Medal game, dishing out two assists and blocking six shots in the 11-point victory over the Dominican Republic. She went 9-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-2 from long range in the Gold Medal game, as the points were the most by a P.R. player in the tournament, and the ten rebounds tied a single-game high for her country.
The scoring margin for Puerto Rico was an eye-popping 163 points, as the next best margin, held by the Dominican Republic, was 73. The Puerto Rican team was out-scored in just four total quarters over the tournament, and never trailed at halftime.
Rosado will re-join an IPFW squad that returns four starters and seven total letterwinners from a team that went 13-17 a year ago, the school's winningest season since joining Division I in the 2001-02 season. Returning are the top five scorers, and the top seven rebounders return from last year squad.
New to the team for 2010-11 is the 2008-09 Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Kayla Drake, who averaged 15.5 points per game for Eastern Kentucky two years ago, All-Ohio First-Team selection Amanda Hyde who averaged 21.8 points per game, while making 91.7 percent of her free throws, the fourth highest single-season average in Ohio Girls Basketball history, Erin Murphy of Seymour High School, who averaged 20 points and nearly five rebounds per game at Seymour High School, and Amanda Anderson of Bedford North Lawrence High School, as the latter two were selected to participate in the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60.
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