WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Feb. 3, 2013 -- The James Madison women's basketball team rallied from 15 points down to win 68-63 at William and Mary in Colonial Athletic Association action Sunday
afternoon at William and Mary Hall.
JMU upped its overall record to 14-7 and its CAA mark to 8-1 as the Dukes
maintained sole possession of second place in the league standings. JMU won its seventh straight contest and posted its 11th victory in its last 12
games.
W&M, which saw its winning streak end at three games, is 5-15 overall and 3-6
in the CAA.
Freshman guard Precious Hall
(Tallahassee, Fla./Maclay) led the Dukes in scoring with 19 points, one below
her career high. Junior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater,
Va./Turner Ashby) had her fourth double-double of the season with 16 points and
10 rebounds and also had a team-high four assists and a game-high three
steals. Senior guard Tarik Hislop (Silver Spring, Md./Paint
Branch) also scored in double figures with 12, and sophomore forward Toia Giggetts (Norfolk, Va./Lake
Taylor) added nine points and tied for game rebounding honors with 10.
W&M senior forward Emily Correal
(Venetia, Pa./Peter's Township) was the game's top scorer with 28 points, 12 of
which came at the foul line where she connected on 12 of 13 attempts. Junior forward Kaitlyn Mathieu (Waterboro, Maine/Worcester Academy, Mass.) was the
only other W&M player in double figures in scoring with 10; she led the
Tribe with eight rebounds.
The Tribe netted 19 unanswered points to build a 21-6 lead with 11:30 to go in
the opening half. Matthieu began the run
with back-to-back 3-pointers and scored eight of her team's points.
JMU, however, mounted a comeback, outscoring W&M 21-6 over a span of 7:19
to tie the game at 27-27 with 3:33 remaining.
But with the game tied at 31-31 with 1:24 to play, W&M tallied the final
five points of the half to take a 36-31 advantage into intermission.
With W&M up 42-39 with 15:36 to play, the Dukes scored the game's next 17
points, gaining a 56-42 lead with 10:15 remaining. Burkholder scored eight and Hall five during
the run, which gave the Dukes a lead they would not relinquish.
The Tribe did get as close as four, 58-54, with 6:23 to play, after scoring
nine straight points. Correal tallied
seven of those nine. However, JMU scored
the next six points, and W&M got no closer than five the rest of the way.
