Women’s Basketball Stays Perfect At Home With Win Over Bucknell – Vermont Athletics

FINAL SCORE: Vermont 64, Bucknell 48 BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vermont (7–3, 0–0 AE) improved to 4–0 at Patrick Gym to start the season with a win over Bucknell (3–6, 0–0 PL). Senior Jadyn Weltz tallied 17 points and added four assists in the victory. RELATED LINKS Box Score  COACH’S QUOTE “I felt like early we started with being the aggressor, being assertive, and executing a game plan, and then we took our foot off the gas,” said Mayer Women’s Basketball Head Coach Alisa Kresge .  “Bucknell thrived off of that, and they made their runs, their pushes, and they were being aggressive, and they set the pace. And so we readdressed it, and a little bit of allowing them to own that moment. We need our players to run this team. Some of our players spoke up about what we know we are capable of doing and what we were doing.”  HOW IT HAPPENED Vermont opened the game with a 13–5 lead at the first media timeout with 3:05 left in the first quarter, highlighted by a long two from senior Keira Hanson off a pass from Weltz. Senior Catherine Gilwee hit a turnaround jumper with 1:40 remaining to send
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