Lamb's 33 leads WSU to win.

November 20, 1998

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Tricia Lamb's 33 points led Washington State to a 96-77 women's basketball victory over Appalachian State in the opening round of the Howard Bank Classic, hosted by the University of Vermont.

Lamb's offensive performance equaled the ninth best one-game scoring total in WSU (1-0) history. She had scoring help from Cathy McNeely with 16, YvonneVolkman with 13 and Jennifer Kerns with 10. Alke Dietel, held to 7 points, had a game-high eight rebounds.

Appalachian State (0-1) was paced by Lucia Borcinova's 19 points and 17 from Beth Schoolfield.

The Cougars raced to a 49-32 halftime lead while forcing 22 Mountaineer turnovers. Lamb scored 13 and McNeely 11 in the opening 20 minutes. For the game, the Cougars benefited from 35 ASU turnovers.

"I was very pleased how we came out at the beginning and established control," Cougar coach Harold Rhodes said. "We played great defense and forced them into a quicker paced game than they wanted."

Appalachian State cut WSU's halftime advantage to eight points late in the contest, 79-71. With four minutes to go WSU held a nine-point advantage, 86-77, but from then on it was all Cougars, with WSU scoring the final 10 points of the game.

"Appalachian State worked hard to get back in the game, but our kids didn't panic when they cut into our lead," Rhodes observed. "When we needed a shot Trish (Lamb) got it for us and when we needed a rebound Sheri (Quinton) got it."

Of Lamb's shooting performance, Rhodes said "Trisha had an unbelievable night shooting." The Cougar sophomore knocked down six three-point shots, one short of the school record, and ended the night hitting 13 of her 23 shots, including 6-of-11 from outside the arc. She also grabbed five rebounds.

After ASU took a brief 4-2 lead, WSU scored six straight for an 8-4 lead and never trailed. Lamb scored on a foul shot and a free throw to complete a three-point play that gave WSU the lead for good 5-4, then hit another layin after Dietel's single free throw.

Six minutes into the game WSU held a 19-10 lead that they slowly expanded to 23 points, 45-22, with three minutes to play. ASU outscored the Cougars 10-4 over the final three minutes of the half to cut WSU's lead to 17 points.

In addition to forcing 22 turnovers in the first half, WSU was credited with 15 steals in the opening period, including four by Kerns.

WSU (96) - Katie Nyseth 1-2 2-3 4, Sheri Quinton 0-2 2-2 2, Tricia Lamb
13-23 1-1 33, Cathy McNeely 7-13 0-0 16, Alke Dietel 2-11 3-4 7, Victoria
Herrod 1-2 3-4 5, Jessica Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Jennifer Kerns 4-6 2-4 10,
Yvonne Volkman 5-8 2-2 13, Romie DeAnda 3-5 0-0 6, Niki Castle 0-1 0-0 0,
Team 36-73 15-20 96

Appalachian State (77) - Lauren Romano 1-4 0-0 2, Natasha Lettsome 4-8 0-0
8, Noel Dolan 2-3 1-2 7, Tiffany Cole 2-3 0-0 4, Karma Edwars 4-6 0-0 9,
Lucia Borcinova 6-7 7-7 19, Tiffany Chappell 3-8 0-0 8, Sharonda Green 0-0
0-0 0, Beth Schoolfield 7-11 3-4 17, Jamie Gagliano 1-3 1-2 3, Eva Hegerova
0-4 0-0 0, Team 30-57, 12-15, 77.

Halftime - WSU 49, ASU 32.  3-point goals - WSU 9-26 (Castle 0-1, Lamb
6-11, McNeely 2-6, Dietel 0-4, Kerns 0-2, Volkman 1-2), ASU 5-10 (Romano
0-3, Dolan 2-2, Edwards 1-1, Chappell 2-4).  Fouled out - Dolan.  Rebounds
- WSU 33 (Dietel 8), ASU 38 (Dolan, Edwards, Borcinova 5).  Assists - WSU
23 (Kerns, Nyseth 5), ASU 23 (Edwards 6).  Steals - WSU 17 (Kerns 4), ASU 8
(Lettsome, Chappell 2).  Turnovers - WSU 19 (Lamb, Dietel 5), ASU 35
(Edwards 7).  Total Fouls - WSU 16, ASU 18.  Technical - None.  A-Not

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