STOCKTON, Calif. – In the first game of its California trip, the Yale women's basketball team fell to Pacific 66-59 Monday night at Alex G. Spanos Center. Junior guard
Nyla McGill had her first double-double of the year, finishing with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
The first quarter was tied 8-8 with 4:35 to play before a late run by Yale (0-5, 0-0 Ivy League). A three-pointer by sophomore guard
Kiley Capstraw near the end helped send the Bulldogs into the break up 17-12.
The see-saw battle continued in the second half, with neither team leading by more than five points. The Tigers had a 33-29 advantage at the half thanks in part to going on a 7-0 run and hitting eight of their 14 shots (.571) in the second quarter.
Senior guard
Klara Astrom, the team's lone California native, knotted the game 35-35 at 5:26 of the third with a three-pointer. After she followed that up with an assist to senior forward
Brenna McDonald for a layup and a 7-0 Yale run, Pacific (3-1, 0-0 WCC) called timeout. The Tigers then went on a 6-0 run before McGill scored seven straight points, starting with her first career three-pointer. A layup by McDonald sent Yale into the fourth up 46-41.
Yale built its lead up to eight, 49-41, early in the fourth before Pacific responded with a 9-0 run to take the lead, 50-49, with 5:35 to play. Capstraw ended that run with a jumper, but Pacific held a 58-53 lead with less than two minutes to go. The Tigers then forced a backcourt violation by Yale and got a turnaround jumper from center Elizabeth Elliott to put the game out of reach.
Notes
- Capstraw and senior guard Jenna Clark finished with 11 points each, with Clark adding six assists. Junior forward Grace Thybulle also scored 11.
- Yale limited Pacific to eight points and a .214 shooting percentage in the third.
- Earlier in the day the Bulldogs visited Pacific's Amos Alonzo Stagg Football Plaza directly across from the Spanos Center. Stagg, a football coach at Pacific from 1933 to 1946, was an 1888 Yale graduate who played baseball and football for the Bulldogs. He is in both the Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
Up Next
- Yale concludes its California trip with a game at San Francisco Tuesday night at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time (7:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
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