OAKLAND, Calif. – A cold shooting performance by the Chaminade University women's basketball team resulted in a 66-47 loss to Holy Names University Monday at Tobin Gymnasium.
The team had its third-worst shooting night of the season at 31.4 percent as the defeat snapped the Silverswords' three-game winning streak against the Hawks who last beat Chaminade in February 2014.
Shana Kawakami had a team-high 12 points for Chaminade, which fell to 4-13 overall and 4-9 in the Pacific West Conference. Kawakami also had a team-best seven rebounds.
Lilia Maio added 11 points and six boards with
Carissa McBride also pulling down six rebounds and tying her personal best with three blocks.
Sabrina Angle scored nine points with a pair of 3-pointers while
Taylor Babbitt was a perfect 3-for-3 from the floor with eight points on the night.
Holy Names (7-15, 6-8) was led by Garysha Youngblood's 12 points.
Both teams crawled out of the gate as Kawakami's layup less than three minutes gone represented the game's first score. After a Taylor Krouse bucket put the Hawks ahead 6-5 at the 4:55 mark of the first quarter, both teams failed to score for the next 3 1/2 minutes before Babbitt's three-point play broke the scoring drought. HNU led 11-10 after the first 10 minutes.
Maio hit two free throws to put Chaminade up 16-15 early in the second quarter but the Hawks' 10-2 run to end the half gave them a 25-18 lead. The Silverswords went nearly eight minutes without a field goal in the second quarter, ending the drought with Henry's layup with 34 seconds left in the half.
The 'Swords' drought continued as they scored only six points in the third quarter, all from Kawakami. Chaminade was out-scored 17-6 in the third as HNU led by as many as 20.
Maio finally become someone other than Kawakami to get into the Silversword scoring ledger in the second half with a layup followed by Angle's 3-pointer. Maio's three-point play with 6:59 left drew them to within 13 at 46-33 but the deficit was too large to climb from as the Hawks built their lead back to a 20-point margin despite Chaminade's 23 fourth quarter points.
The 'Swords committed 26 turnovers to only four assists but did out-rebound the Hawks, 40-36. HNU was able to convert 16 of its 18 free throws while Chaminade was only 10-of-17 from the charity stripe. Holy Names had 14 assists to 15 giveaways and had 10 steals.
The Silverswords face Dominican Thursday in San Rafael, California.
