TOWSON, Md. --- The Moravian College women's basketball team used a balanced scoring attack with five players in double figures to lead the Greyhounds to their seventh straight win, an 84-64 victory at Goucher College Wednesday evening to open the 2015-16 Landmark Conference season.
Junior forward Camille McPherson led the Blue and Grey with 18 points to go with six rebounds and a pair of assists while graduate student forward Alexis Wright added 12 points, six boards and three blocked shots. Senior forward Alesha Marcks and sophomore forward Trista Cunningham each contributed 11 points and six rebounds with Cunningham dishing out three assists while freshman guard Maggie Melhem added 10 points, five rebounds, three assists, two steals and a pair of blocked shots.
Senior guard Samantha Caligiuri, junior guard Morgan Calabrese and senior forward Karlee Corvasce all had five points for Moravian with Caligiuir dishing out five assists, Calabrese adding three assists and two steals and Corvasce grabbing three rebounds. Senior guard Emily MacDonnell contributed four points and a pair of assists while sophomore guard Taylor Freeman added three assists as the Greyhounds had 23 assists on 30 field goals in the win. Senior gaurd Karine Polgar pulled down four rebounds as the Hounds had a 49-36 advantage on the boards.
Moravian, now 7-1 overall and 1-0 in Landmark Conference action, shot over 42 percent for the seventh straight game, making 30-of-65 field goal attempts (46.2 percent), and the Hounds were over 50 percent (15-for-28) in the final 20 minutes, the sixth time in the seven-game winning streak that the team has shot over 50 percent in one half of the game, and five of the six contests have seen the Greyhounds over the 50 percent plateau in the second half.
The Hounds scored the first seven points of the game versus the Gophers and would lead the entire contest. Marcks opened the scoring with a lay-up just over a minute into action, and a three-pointer from Melhem made it 7-0. Moravian had a pair of 10-point leads in the opening quarter before holding a 17-12 lead at the end of the period.
McPherson pushed the lead back to 10 points with a three-pointer and a jumper to open the second quarter, and the Hounds pushed the advantage to 16 points, 45-29, as they headed to the locker room after a three-point play by Melhem.
Moravian would push the lead as high as 27 points in the third quarter as head coach Mary Beth Spirk used her bench with 14 players seeing action in the victory, and no one playing more than 25 minutes.
The Greyhounds, who won all five games on their season-long road trip, will return to Johnston Hall for three home games before the semester break. Moravian begins that stretch with a Landmark Conference game versus The Catholic University of America on Saturday, December 5 with tip-off slated for 4:00 p.m.
