Temple University Athletics
11.11.05 | Women's Basketball
EUGENE, OR.-Khadija Bowens led Temple with 14 points and Candice Dupree chipped in with 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds as #21/20 Temple defeated Michigan, 65-48 in the opening game of the Women's Sports Foundation Classic on Friday night. Dupree also blocked five shots as the Owls advance to the championship game held tomorrow night at 10 p.m. EST. TU will face the winner of the Oregon/St. Francis game.
The game began in a sloppy style with neither team able to score a basket. Kelly Helvey broke the scoring drought with a jumper at 18:23 to give Michigan a 2-0 edge. Jennifer Owens finally got Temple on the board at 18:00 to make it 2-2. Lady Comfort hit a cutting Bowens for a 4-2 score but that would be the last basket that the Owls would see for a while. The Wolverines tied the score at four but the Owls finally found their rhythm and went on a 10-0 scoring run to take a 14-4 lead by 11:12. Temple continued to dominate and led 20-6 before Michigan's Jessica Minnfield was able to end TU's rout but it was too late as the Owls took a 31-16 advantage into the lockeroom.
Owens hit a trey to begin the half and extend Temple's lead to 18 and Stephanie Hicks followed up with a three-pointer of her own to extend the Owls' lead to 20, 43-23, by the 15 minute mark. The Owls suffered a bit of a offensive breakdown, however, and failed to score a basket for five minutes. allowing the Wolverines to claw back. UM had cut the Owls' lead to just nine by the 7 minute mark. Bowens scored six points and Morris went to the line for five points down the stretch for the 65-48 result.
