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THE DIAMONDBACK | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009
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Scoring all around Reynolds steps up at X Miami blowout gave other Terps chance to shine
Senior midfielder won crucial faceoffs Saturday BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer
BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Crisp, unselfish offensive play has become the trademark of the Terrapin women’s basketball team under coach Brenda Frese, now in her seventh year with the Terps. That’s why the No. 4 Terps’ five games before Sunday’s 8964 win at Miami raised some eyebrows. In three of those five contests, just two players — guard Kristi Toliver and forward Marissa Coleman — contributed 68.2 percent of the Terps’ scoring. Sunday against Miami, the scoring duties were more spread out. Five players scored in double-digits, and two others — forward Dee Liles and guard Kim Rodgers — each contributed nine points. Toliver, who scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting, didn’t need to shoot the ball with her team comfortably in the lead throughout most of the game. It was a good sign for the team’s future success when players other than Toliver and Coleman provided some offense. On one play, with 4:05 remaining in the first half and the Hurricanes (13-16, 2-12 ACC) primarily using a triangle-and-two defense to stop the Terps’ two senior stars, guard Anjalé Barrett found center Lynetta Kizer in the post with an entry pass. Kizer quickly fired the ball back out to Barrett who confidently hit a 3-pointer on her way to 10 points. “We want every player on the
Guard Anjalé Barrett has been a top reserve all season for the Terps and made her presence felt Sunday.
Center Lynetta Kizer was one of five Terps in double figures in Sunday’s blowout of Miami.
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floor to have the confidence, step up and shoot the ball,” Frese said. “It’s not one-on-five, twoon-five. We’ve always been about being unselfish and making the extra pass.” In their Senior Night victory against Boston College on Friday, it seemed as if nobody else on the Terps team (25-4, 12-2) wanted to score other than Toliver and Coleman. The duo poured in the team’s first 30 points. Kizer was the first other Terp to score with a layup with just fewer than seven minutes remaining in the first half. “You can’t continue to think that you’re gonna go where we wanna go and just with two players,” Frese said after Friday’s 86-74 win over the Ea-
gles, in which Toliver and Coleman combined for 59 points. “You have to have a team. That’s why it’s a team sport. But at the same time, you also go with what’s working, and every game you go with what clicks.” Against Miami, Toliver and Coleman, who were both named to the All-ACC First Team yesterday, combined for 28 points. The Terps were still able to coast to a comfortable victory and clinch their first ACC regular season title since 1989, much thanks to the increased production of others. “Our spacing and our ball movement is what completes us as a team,” Frese said. akrautdbk@gmail.com
BALTIMORE – From a local perspective, there was one notable omission when the preseason Tewaaraton Trophy watch list was released in late February. Jeff Reynolds, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team’s do-itall midfielder, wasn’t among the four Terps named. But if the fifth-year senior continues to turn in performances like he did Saturday in an 118 win against then-No. 12 Duke, he will make himself awfully hard to ignore. With midfielder Bryn Holmes struggling uncharacteristically at the faceoff X, winning just 1-of-9, coach Dave Cottle turned to Reynolds to make something happen. Almost immediately, Reynolds turned the tide in the game. Duke’s Ned Crotty had just knotted the game at three with 2:06 remaining in the half when Reynolds stepped to the X for his second faceoff of the day — just his 14th of the season. Reynolds propelled the ball forward past his counterpart,
With Bryn Holmes struggling, senior Jeff Reynolds stepped up for the Terps at the faceoff X against Duke on Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
“Today, I kinda got up there and felt the rhythm.” JEFF REYNOLDS SENIOR MIDFIELDER
the Blue Devils’ Sam Payton, and scooped it up in stride heading toward the cage. He then found attackman Grant Catalino, who moved the ball in close to attackman Ryan Young. Young’s goal
reclaimed the lead with 1:59 on the clock. “Today, I kinda got up there and felt the rhythm,” Reynolds said Saturday. “I was hearing the whistle well, and it worked out for me. I was able to get the ball out and possess the ball.” On the ensuing faceoff, Reynolds again gathered possession and found Catalino. Five seconds later, Catalino, who finished with four
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