Michigan State University
Green & White (Exhib.)
MSU Women's Basketball Holds Green & White Exhibition
10/28/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Oct. 28, 2004
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State women's basketball team opened the 2004-05 exhibition season Thursday night with the annual Green & White intrasquad exhibition game. The Spartans played four 10-minute quarters against a group of male scout team members that regularly practice with the team, plus sophomore forward Alisa Wulff, a transfer from Virginia who will not be eligible until 2005-06, and junior walk-on Darina Parker. MSU emerged victorious with a 74-67 victory as junior guard Lindsay Bowen led four Spartan players in double figures with 18 points.
Sophomore guard Rene Haynes came off the bench to score 13 points for MSU, while sophomore guard Victoria Lucas-Perry added 11 and senior center Kelli Roehrig chipped in with 10. Wulff had 11 points for the practice squad.
MSU raced to a 27-14 lead after the first quarter led by six points from Roehrig and four points each from four other players. The practice squad got hot from three-point range in the second period, hitting five shots from behind the arc to trim the deficit to 43-37 at the half despite nine points in the quarter from Haynes.
In the third quarter, Bowen hit all three of her three-point attempts to help MSU forge ahead to a 64-57 lead entering the final period. Neither team did much in the fourth quarter, as both teams scored just 10 points, but two treys by Lucas-Perry helped keep the practice squad at bay. MSU led by as many as 13 points at 74-61 after another Bowen triple, but the practice players scored the game's last six points for the final margin.
Roehrig led MSU with nine rebounds while Lucas-Perry added seven and sophomore Myisha Bannister six. Lucas-Perry also dished out four of MSU's 13 assists and had three of the Spartans' 16 steals. Senior Kristin Haynie had four steals to lead all players.
MSU shot 43.3 percent from the field (29-of-67) while limiting the practice squad to 35 percent (28-of-80). The Spartans sank 9-of-21 three-pointers (42.9 percent), but had 21 turnovers while forcing 23.
Michigan State will continue the exhibition season when the Spartans host Ohio Girls Basketball Magazine Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m.
