Box Score The Waterloo Warriors made a comeback effort across the end of third and start of fourth quarters, but two three pointers by Ottawa's Jennifer Stoqua stopped the momentum and the visiting Ottawa Gee-Gees defeated the hometown Warriors 82-60 on Friday night.
Jacqui Rodrigues (Waterloo) came off the bench to lead Waterloo scoring with 12 points, while
Madison Behr (Ancaster) had 11 points and 5 rebounds. Stephanie MacDonald led Ottawa with 27 points and 7 rebounds.
Ottawa leads the OUA North Division with a 4-1 record, while the loss puts Waterloo at 1-4, tied for third in the OUA West.
The two teams played an even first quarter with five ties, but Waterloo never able to take the lead and Ottawa coming out ahead 15-13 at the first break.
Ottawa opened up an 8 point lead to start the second quarter, leading to a 38-28 lead at half time. At the half most stats were pretty even with Waterloo shooting 38% to Ottawa's 35% and Ottawa leading in rebounds 23-19. It was free throws that made the difference as Ottawa shot 12 of 18 from the line and Waterloo just 2 of 7.
To start the second half, Waterloo's
Laura Burnett (Heidelberg) provided six points, but 8 points from Ottawa's Stephanie MacDonald helped Ottawa open up an 18 point lead midway through the period. Late in the quarter, Waterloo was down 22. They scored the last 4 points of the third and first 7 of the fourth to make the score 60-49 and force Ottawa into a time out. Soon Ottawa opened up the gap on the way to a 22 point win.
For the game Waterloo shot 39% to Ottawa's 40%. The rest of the stats showed the Ottawa margin, leading in rebounds, three point shooting, free throws and forcing 30 Waterloo turnovers.
In addition to double figures for Rodrigues and Behr, nine other Warriors hit the score sheet, as all 12 players got into the game.
The next game for Waterloo is Saturday night, with Carleton Ravens coming to visit at 6:00pm. Carleton has a 2-3 record early in the season and lost to Wilfrid Laurier on Friday night. You can catch the game on OUA TV.
