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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Drake's Women Lose At Evansville, 68-62


Morgan Reid (Kansas City, Mo.) scored 15 points and pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds but the Drake women’s basketball team was defeated by hot-shooting Evansville, 68-62, in a Missouri Valley Conference opener Thursday night in Evansville, Ind.


Reid finished 6-of-10 from the field and 3-of-3 from the free throw line for her third double-double of the season and added two assists. Kyndal Clark (Webb City, Mo.) scored a game-high 17 points and dished out a career-high six assists for the second-straight game.

Evansville (3-9, 1-0 Valley) knocked down 8-of-18 from behind the three-point line and scored 24 points off Drake’s (5-7, 0-1 Valley) 21 turnovers. Four players led by Mallory Ladd’s 16 points scored in double figures for the Purple Aces. Ladd, a transfer from Valparaiso, who became eligible three games ago, had 10 rebounds for her third straight double-double.

 Evansville outrebounded Drake, 37-33, with 13 offensive rebounds to 12 for Drake.

“I was disappointed with our rebounding effort, especially the six dead ball offensive rebounds we let go,” Drake  coach Jennie Baranczyk said. “We need to be able to control the glass and get those balls and go in transition. We had 16 second chance points tonight but I’m not happy with the 15 we let Evansville had.”

[This story was written for Ron Maly John Meyer of Drake's sports information staff].