Beaver Falls, PA – Beaver Falls, PA – On Saturday, January 21 the Geneva women’s basketball Golden Tornadoes hosted the Washington & Jefferson Presidents in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) game. W&J handed Geneva
Miranda Heaney’s (New Castle, PA/Union) good three-pointer handed Geneva its sixth point of the game down by two with five minutes left in the first quarter.
The Presidents tallied an 11-point lead before the Golden Tornadoes chipped away slowly to close the gap. Jodie Carlson’s (Warsaw, IN/Warsaw) buzzard beater three brought the score to 21-14 at the end of the first.
With 4:38 left in the second, Geneva trailed 27-21. Rachel Moore (Vandergrift, PA/
At the half, Carlson carried the load of Geneva’s points with 13 supported by Callie Ford (New Middletown, OH/Springfield Local) with nine.
W&J reached lead of 22 in the third (60-36). Before the end of the quarter, Amanda Knecht (Oil City, PA/Agora Cyber Charter School) drained a three moving the scoreboard to 62-41.
Ford lead the team’s scoring with 27 points going 10-17 from the field. Carlson tallied double-figure points with 16 while leading the team’s rebounding with seven. Carlson went 5-10 from the field, 2-2 from beyond the arch. Noelle Henry (Aliquippa, PA/Hopewell) grabbed six rebounds in the forty minutes.
Up next, the Golden Tornadoes will head to Bethany College on Wednesday, January 24 for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff. Followed by the road
The PAC has united as a league to support Wynn and all fighting cancer in an initiative to sell Wynn The Battle t-shirts conference-wide the week of January 28 through February 4. T-shirts will be on sale at Geneva on Saturday, January 28 for $5 as the Golden Tornadoes welcome back Wynn.
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