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GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY BISON
Gallaudet women's basketball player Alexis Roberts makes a jump shot during a home game.
33
Penn St.-Berks PSBW 2-18, 1-12 UEC
80
Winner Gallaudet GALW 13-9, 10-3 UEC
Penn St.-Berks PSBW
2-18, 1-12 UEC
33
Final
80
Gallaudet GALW
13-9, 10-3 UEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Penn St.-Berks PSBW 6 11 5 11 33
Gallaudet GALW 23 23 20 14 80

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Sam Atkinson, Associate AD for Communications

GU plays 14 different players in rout of Penn St.-Berks

WASHINGTON – The Gallaudet University women's basketball team rolled to an 80-33 victory over Penn St.-Berks here Wednesday night in the Field House in a United East conference game.

Gallaudet (13-9, 10-3 United East) remains in a tie for third place in the latest United East standings.

The Bison scored the game's first 12 points before Penn St.-Berks (2-18, 1-12 United East) got on the scoreboard midway through the first quarter. GU led 23-6 after the first quarter and took a 46-17 lead into halftime.

Gallaudet emptied the bench in the second half as the Bison played nine reserve players. The Bison outscored the Nittany Lions, 34-16, in the second half.

Senior guard Claire Ruiz-Tucker (Middletown, Md.) scored a game-high 16 points while sophomore guard Cam Lexow (Abington, Pa.) to go with nine rebounds, four assists, three blocks and two steals.

Senior guard Raj Guettler (Frederick, Md.) netted 12 points, eight boards, six assists and four steals. The latter two marks were game highs.

Penn St.-Berks was led by Gabrielle Merritt who scored six points and grabbed seven boards. Guard Ashlyn Clark led the Nittany Lions with seven points.

The Gallaudet basketball programs celebrated Black History Month on Wednesday night with a special tribute to Andrew Foster '54, the first Deaf Black graduate at Gallaudet University. There were special t-shirts handed out and informative halftime presentations about Andrew Foster. Both the GU men's and women's basketball teams wore the special Andrew Foster t-shirts during warm ups and coaches and reserves wore the shirt on the bench during the games.

BISON TRACKS
  • First-year forward Mackenzie Schirg (Factoryville, Pa.) led the Bison with 10 rebounds, all on the defensive end of the court, and threw in seven points
  • Senior Alexis Roberts (Newton, Miss.) scored six points, grabbed three rebounds and matched Lexow with a game-high three blocks
  • Junior center Hannah Puent (Indianapolis, Ind.) added four points, four boards, four assists, two steals and a block
  • First-year Dev Sklar (Brooklyn, N.Y.) made her first career basket with a 3-pointer late in the game. Dev was assisted by her twin sister, Hadassah Sklar (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
  • Senior Sunita Schmidjorg (Austin, Texas) matched Roberts with six points off the bench
  • First year Olivia Wascher (Noblesville, Ind.) scored a career best four points
  • GU made a season-high 10 blocks in the game
  • The Bison scored 48 points in the paint
UP NEXT
Gallaudet will close out its regular-season home schedule this Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. in the Field House against Cairn University (1-18, 0-13 United East) on Senior Day.
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