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updated 01/15/2008

  Rose-Hulman News Rose-Hulman Retains Clabber Girl Trophy with 77-53 Victory
 

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The Engineers reclaimed the Clabber Girl Trophy for the fourth consecutive year in the victory.
TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology earned the Clabber Girl Trophy for the fourth consecutive time with a 77-53 victory over St. Mary-of-the-Woods College on Monday night.

The Engineers shot 47% from the field and outrebounded St. Mary-of-the-Woods by a 55-20 margin to improve to 6-8 overall this season.

Junior Liz Ridgway (Grosse Pointe, Mich./Northwestern U.) led the balanced scoring attack with 14 points and added six rebounds.  Ridgway shot 6-8 from the field with one block.

Freshman Donna Marsh (Mobile, Ala./Baker) and senior Jill Floyd (Bloomington, Ill./Olympia) also reached double figures with 13 and 11 points each.

St. Mary-of-the-Woods was led by Kaiti Nease with 17 points off the bench.  Brooke Brown added 16 points for the Pomeroys.

The Engineers narrowed the all-time Clabber Girl Trophy series to 11-4 with the victory, marking the fourth consecutive season that Rose-Hulman has won the matchup.

Other key contributors to the Engineer attack included senior Katie Tharp (Linton) with eight points and eight rebounds; and senior Candace Procter (Southfield, Mich./Groves), sophomore Shayna Banet (Canton, Ga./Woodstock), freshman Theresa Henke (Alexandria, Ky./Bishop Brossart) with six points each.

Rose-Hulman led 39-31 at the half, then outscored the Pomeroys 20-5 over the first nine minutes of the second half to secure the win.

The 6-8 Engineers return to action on Tuesday night with a home matchup against Robert Morris-Springfield at 6 p.m.  St. Mary-of-the-Woods dropped to 4-13 on the season.


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