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5-12, 1-1MW
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8-9, 1-1MW
Women's basketball recap: Hot-shooting Frogs hop past Rams
1/14/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Jan. 14, 2012
By Danielle Marshall
Athletic Media Relations
FORT WORTH, Texas – It was a high-scoring affair at the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum Saturday afternoon, and the TCU Horned Frogs edged the Rams, 79-71.
CSU fell to 5-12 (1-1 Mountain West) while TCU got one game closer to .500 at 8-9 (1-1 MW). It was the first contest the Rams lost this season while shooting above 45.1 percent from the floor.
TCU opened the game on a 15-0 run before CSU sank its first field goal at the 15:41 mark in the first half. The team fought hard to stay in the game in the first half, pulling within four points, but hot shooting by the Frogs kept the Rams at bay.
“I thought we seemed disorganized and disoriented in the beginning,” commented Head Coach Kristen Holt. “We weren’t expecting them to hit those threes. We were just mentally out of it. I was proud of the way we didn’t give up, but in the second half we had a place where we turned the ball over a couple times. We could have really made it a game.”
It seemed like the Frogs could not miss from three-point range for much of the game. A team that normally makes just five per game from beyond the arc, connected on 12, shooting a .417 percentage.
Colorado State in the first half shot 50.0 percent from the floor, and an impressive 71.4 percent from three-point range, but it wasn’t enough to keep up with TCU, which recorded a .567 percentage in the first stanza, scoring 45 points. It was a drastic reversal from recent matchups, as the Horned Frogs were held to 44 and 46 respective points in their previous two contests.
CSU’s LaDeyah Forte had a stellar afternoon, setting a career high with 17 points, shooting 66.7 percent. Kim Mestdagh scored her highest point total since Dec. 20 vs. Michigan State, with 13. The Rams’ Sam Martin was the game’s leading scorer with 28 points, tying her career high set earlier this season at Denver (Nov. 23).
Holt was impressed by Forte.
“I thought she had a tremendous game,” said the coach. “I thought she took control and did some things well offensively.”
The Frogs’ top scorers were Antoinette Thompson and Natalie Ventress, registering 20 points each. Whitney Williams also tallied double figures with 18 points.
