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Delaware 80, Northeastern 57 February 10, 2001 Dellegrotti, Davis Step Up as Hens Clinch First America EastTitle Lindsay Davis NEWARK, DE -- The University of Delaware clinched the America East regular season title and earned the top seed in the upcoming league tournament with a decisive 80-57 women's basketball victory over Northeastern Saturday afternoon at the Bob Carpenter Center. Megan Dellegrotti led the Blue Hens (20-3, 14-0) with 17 points while forward Lindsay Davis added 13 points, hit all three three-pointers, pulled seven rebounds, and dished out a team-high four assists in her first start of the season to lead the way. Delaware has now won 15 straight games, 17 straight games at home, and 22 straight America East regular season games. Delaware, which reached 20 wins for the second straight season, clinches its first ever America East title as the Hens lead second place Drexel by five games with four league games left to play. Delaware swept the season series with Drexel. The regular season title is the first for the Blue Hens since winning the East Coast Conference title back in 1990-91, the year before Delaware joined America East. Northeastern, which had a two-game win streak snapped, fell to 11-11, 7-6 despite 17 points off the bench from Kiarsha Curtis and 14 points and nine rebounds from Lani Lawrence. The Huskies scored the first basket of the game, but the Hens quickly tied the game and never trailed again. The Hens, thanks to just two first half turnovers, led 36-21 at halftime and were never seriously threatened in the second stanza. Delaware outscored Northeastern 12-3 to start the second half and led by as much as 32 points at 67-35 with 8:15 left to play. Northeastern followed with a 16-0 spurt over a five-minute span, but could never get closer than 16 points at 67-51 with 3:49 left to play. Davis, starting in place of injured starting forward Danielle Leyfert (knee), hit on all four shots from the field, including all three three-pointers, to go with seven rebounds, four assists, two blocks, and two steals in 27 minutes. Overall the Hens hit on 7 of 11 shots from beyond the three-point arc. Allison Trapp added 11 points off the bench for Delaware and freshman Tracey Howell collected a team-high nine rebounds in just 17 minutes of action. Christina Rible had a streak of seven straight double-doubles snapped but added nine points and seven rebounds. AGATE: OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE -- G A M E T O T A L S Northeastern vs Delaware 2/10/01 1 p.m. at Bob Carpenter Center, Newark, DE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISITORS: Northeastern 11-11, 7-6 TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 15 KOWALSKI, Melissa f 2 9 0 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 6 2 2 0 1 22 21 CARUSO, Genny f 1 5 0 3 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 0 0 22 45 LAWRENCE, Lani c 6 9 0 0 2 4 4 5 9 2 14 0 4 2 0 35 13 WILLIAMS, Aisha g 1 4 0 1 0 0 2 4 6 0 2 2 5 0 2 22 24 HARRIS, Laurie g 2 14 0 4 0 0 2 1 3 3 4 2 2 0 0 32 11 GORHAM, Joy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0+ 12 KENNY, Meghan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 DiMARIA, Jessica 1 4 0 0 2 2 3 4 7 1 4 1 3 0 0 20 23 NEWSOME, Lori 1 1 0 0 3 4 1 1 2 2 5 0 1 0 0 7 31 CLAPP, Jennifer 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 32 CURTIS, Kiarsha 6 14 5 10 0 0 1 4 5 4 17 0 2 0 3 22 33 JEFFERSON, Joi 0 4 0 1 2 2 1 2 3 4 2 3 1 0 1 14 TEAM ........................................ 2 1 3 TOTALS 20 64 5 21 12 16 18 26 44 19 57 12 22 2 8 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 8-29 .276 2nd Half: 12-35 .343 Game: .313 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 1- 8 .125 2nd Half: 4-13 .308 Game: .238 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 4- 4 1.000 2nd Half: 8-12 .667 Game: .750 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOME TEAM: Delaware 20-3, 14-0 TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 40 RIBLE, Christina f 4 11 0 0 1 2 2 5 7 0 9 1 0 2 2 31 43 DAVIS, Lindsay f 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 5 7 3 13 4 2 2 2 27 54 COLE, Christine c 2 5 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 2 6 0 1 1 1 15 11 DELLEGROTTI, Megan g 6 12 3 7 2 4 0 2 2 2 17 3 2 0 0 31 22 JOHNSON, Cindy g 3 12 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 0 6 3 2 0 2 31 03 TRAPP, Allison 2 7 0 0 7 8 4 0 4 3 11 0 2 0 4 13 04 TIMMINS, Carrie 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 3 0 2 12 23 MILLS, Kristin 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 24 BOYER, Jayne 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 33 LEYFERT, Danielle 1 5 0 0 5 6 1 2 3 0 7 1 3 0 2 17 50 HOWELL, Tracey 2 4 0 0 2 2 3 6 9 0 6 0 0 1 2 17 53 MALONEY, Brianna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 TEAM ........................................ 1 3 4 TOTALS 26 65 7 11 21 26 16 29 45 13 80 14 15 6 17 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-35 .343 2nd Half: 14-30 .467 Game: .400 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 3- 6 .500 2nd Half: 4- 5 .800 Game: .636 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 9-12 .750 2nd Half: 12-14 .857 Game: .808 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIALS: Dennis DeMayo, Tom Danaher, Kelly Lee Gill TECHNICAL FOULS: Northeastern - none Delaware - none ATTENDANCE: 1250 SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 TOTAL Northeastern 21 36 57 Delaware 36 44 80 UD clinches AE No. 1 seed...UD has won 15 straight, 17 straight at BCC.. UD has won 22 straight America East regular season games.