W. Hoops loses two on the road, drop to 2-4

1996 Ivy Player of the Year Allison Feaster of Harvard lit Penn up for 23 points and 13 rebounds Friday night in Cambridge, Mass. The Penn women suffered through their first Ivy League road trip of the season, losing both ends of the doubleheader. In front of a few hundred on Friday night in Boston, the Quakers fell to league-leading Harvard, 86-57. The Crimson (12-6, 6-0 Ivy League) bolted out to a 41-20 halftime lead and coasted through the second half. Crimson junior forward Allison Feaster led the way with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Guard Alison Seanor chipped in another 11 points, and four other players scored eight or more points. As a team, Harvard shot very well, 51 percent from the floor and a blazing 85 percent from the foul line. While the Quakers (6-11, 2-4) kept their turnovers well under their usual 13, they managed to shoot only 26 percent from the floor in the first half, and 36 percent for the game. Penn was led by sophomore guard Colleen Kelly, who scored 24 points and hit four of the six three-pointers she took. The Quakers leading scorer and rebounder, junior Michelle Maldonado, was held to seven points and four rebounds. The following night, there was a completely different setting and reason for the same result. A crowd of over a thousand turned out to see the Dartmouth Big Green dispose of the Quakers, 92-70. Dartmouth scored 30 points off of 21 Penn turnovers. The Big Green capitalized on extremely tight officiating, going to the line 43 times. Dartmouth forward Bess Tortolani was the main benefactor, going to the free throw line ten times and sinking nine of her game-high 22 points from there. Dartmouth's reserves also played well. Freshman guard Courtney Banghart came off the bench to bury 21 points and sophomore center Katie O'Connor added another 16 in limited time. On the night the Quakers were whistled for 30 fouls. Maldonado and Penn freshman point guard Chelsea Hathaway both fouled out. Maldonado exited the game with nearly ten minutes to play in the second half. Without the two who led the Quakers with 14 points apiece, Penn struggled the rest of the way. The Quakers and Kelly, who had shot so well the night before, were held without a three-pointer for the game. With the lopsided losses, which dropped the Penn to 2-4 in Ivy League play, the one positive for the Quakers may have been that some of the reserves saw a plenty of action. Sophomore Hadley Perkins chipped in 12 points in 18 minutes of time on the hardwood. In addition, the experience should prove valuable for the youth of the squad, especially the freshmen who got their first taste, albeit a bitter one, of an Ivy League road trip.