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Senior guard Eric Hallman drives past Northeastern freshman guard Ashlee Feldman for a layup that would up the Jayhawks by five points with 21.5 seconds left in the game. In her first game back from a suspension, Hallman scored 18 points, including making two free throws in the final 10 seconds that clinched the Jayhawks' 70-65 victory.
Guard returns, leads to victory
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mphillips@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWRITER
Senior scores 18 in first game since suspension
On this holiday weekend, Bonnie Henrickson was thankful for Erica Hallman.
Hallman, senior guard, returned from a two-game suspension with 18 points, leading Kansas to a 70-65 victory against Northeastern.
Henrickson suspended Hallman for failing to meet team academic standards. She rejoined the team during practice on Thanksgiving day.
"It was pretty easy to get back into the groove of things." Hallman said. "When I was out I still did individual work."
Hallman and the guards carried the load after forwards Taylor McIntosh, freshman, and Crystal Kemp, senior, got into early foul trouble. The team finished with 23 fouls allowing Northeastern 24 points from the line.
"We start playing and then, boom, it a foul," freshman guard
Ivana Catic said. "Without Crystal, it was obvious the guards were supposed to step up."
Kemp still managed to accumulate 15 points in her 18 minutes of action. Catic read Kemp's stat line, then paused and looked for confirmation that the senior could score so many points in so little time.
"They just struggled to guard her one-on-one." Hennrickson said. "They guarded her well when she was sitting next to me."
Kansas started the game shooting 4-of-15 from the floor, but was able to keep the game close when Northeastern had its own problems getting shots to fall.
Taking the bulk of those shots for Northeastern was senior guard Marlene Zwarich, who had her own, large cheering section. Zwarich is originally from Merriam.
Zwarich struggled with an 8-of-24 shooting performance, but never lost the confidence of the coach, who kept her in for 37 of
the game's 40 minutes.
Northeastern had the game's two highest scorers. Zwarich had 19 and sophomore guard Shaleyse Smallwood had 22. Standing just 5-foot-5, Smallwood seemed to have as many points as inches.
"Our foul trouble led to their offense," Henrickson said. "That's how they scored."
After the Jayhawks went on a 6-0 run to take the lead in the second half, they picked up their seventh foul of the half, sending Northeastern to the free-throw line on all subsequent fouls.
The game swung back and forth over the next few minutes, an accomplishment for the Jayhawks because they were playing without Kemp. Hendrickson decided she would put Kemp back in with six minutes to play.
"I was never going to let it get ugly." Henrickson said. "I tried to buy as much time as possible."
After Kemp re-entered, the team took a 66-63 lead with a minute remaining. Hallman
Northeastern had the game's two highest scorers. Zwarich had 19 and sophomore guard Shaleyse Smallwood had 22.
drove into the lane, faked a pass to the outside and made an uncontested layup, giving the team a five-point lead.
Northeastern countered with an apparent three-point shot with seven seconds remaining. Officials consulted video replay though, and ruled the basket was worth only two points.
Hallman was fouled on the inbound pass and made her free throws to put the game out of reach.
Henrickson said the team was happy to have Hallman back, and hoped she would continue to make her academics a priority.
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
"I've just got to take care of business in the classroom as well as on the floor," Hallman said.
Bench players claim Sunday's spotlight
Edited by Jonathan Kealing
After two games of relative anonymity, the Kansas women's basketball bench players finally made a name for themselves.
Boyd finished the first half missing all four shots. Boyd's first two shots were quickly blocked.She settled down and scored four points in the second half.
Through the first two games of the season the Jayhawk reserves averaged only 11 points. With starters in foul trouble early in the first half Sunday against Northeastern, bench scoring became a necessity for maintaining the Kansas women's basketball team's unblemished record.
Led by senior guard Erica Hallman's 18-points in her return from a two-game suspension, the bench players scored
33 points in the victory against Northeastern.
"Those kids need to come in and give us what they are capable of," Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
Kansas' bench players were forced into action early with starting forwards, senior Crystal Kemp and sophomore Taylor McIntosh, each picking up two fouls less in the first six minutes of the game. The two forwards
played a combined 14 minutes in the first half.
Zinic scored the team's only points in the paint in the last nine minutes of the game, scoring four points off two-of-five shooting.
Forwards Marija Zinic and Jamie Boyd came in and provided important minutes for a team with its best player, Kemp, on the bench for most of the game.
first two shots were quickly blocked. She settled down and scored four points in the second half.
Boyd finished the first half missing all four shots. Bodv's
Despite being without two of its starters, strong bench play kept the team in the game. Hallman and Zinic led a 14-10 run to end the half and narrowed the Northeastern lead to one by halftime.
Boyd said the fouls — a season-high 23, with 15 from starters and eight from bench players — made it difficult for the team to get into a rhythm.
"You'd get built up and then there was a foul and it was a downer and we struggled with energy today," Boyd said.
Sophomore forward Jamie Boyd shoots over Northeastern freshman forward Joanna Ausmann and junior guard Jody Burrows early in the first half. Boyd scored four points and logged significant minutes after Crystal Kemp and Taylor McIntosh were plagued with foul trouble. Kansas defeated Northeastern 70-65 Sunday at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Edited by Katie Lohrenz
Rylan Howe/KANSAN
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