St. Mary’s defeates St. Clair by a score of 82-72 in CCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship – Game #11.

March 19^th  St. Clair College SportsPlex (Windsor, ON)

Line Score	1	2	3	4		Total
St. Clair College Saints	22	15	19	16		72
St. Mary’s University Lighting ***	22	12	20	28		82

St. Mary’s University used a strong fourth quarter to defeat host St. Clair in the 7^th Place game Saturday afternoon at the CCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship hosted at the SportsPlex.

The Lightning put up 28 points in the fourth quarter with Montana Romeril (Calgary, AB) scoring 12 of her game high 34 points in the period.  Shooting a perfect 16 for 16 from the free throw line Romeril claimed the Player of the Game Award for St. Mary’s.  St. Clair was leading 37-34 at halftime but caught out of position too often on defense allowed St. Mary’s to score 26 points from the charity stripe.

Jaide Lyons (Windsor, ON) was St. Clair’s Player of the Game and ended her career scoring 19 points and narrowly missed a double-double with 9 rebounds.

St. Mary’s Statistics

Montana Romeril                 34 PTS, 5 REB, 7 AST, 1 STL (Player of the Game)

Laura Belisle                        23 PTS, 8 REB, 6 AST, 3 STL

Mary-Jean Ritchie               13 PTS, 13 REB, 2 AST, 3 STL, 1 BLK

St. Clair Statistics

Jaide Lyons                          19 PTS, 9 REB, 5 AST, 2 STL (Player of the Game)

Shannon Kennedy             19 PTS, 9 REB, 6 AST, 2 STL

Torrie Handsor                     12 PTS, 4 REB, 1 AST, 1 STL