HONOLULU – The Chaminade University women's basketball team finished their season Sunday with a 58-43 loss to Hawai'i Pacific University at The Shark Tank.
Playing her final game in a Silverswords uniform,
Michaella Dean (Irvine, Calif./Orange Lutheran) posted her fifth double-double of the season with 12 points and 16 rebounds while also dishing out a pair of assists and making four steals.
Dean finished the season averaging 9.2 boards per game, the second highest in single-season history, only behind Brittnee Fonnesbeck's 9.8 during the 2006-07 season. Her 16 boards is also tied for fourth-most in a single-game history.
Sasha Phillip (Hau'ula, O'ahu, Hawai'i/Hawai'i Baptist Academy) also recorded the first double-double of her career with 11 points and a career-best 11 boards. Dean and Phillip helped Chaminade (1-19, 0-16 Pacific West Conference) amass 51 rebounds, its most this season and the fifth-most in program history.
Emma Morris (Tucson, Ariz./Tanque Verde) contributed with eight points while
Paige Relph (Las Vegas/Waianae, Hawai'i, HS) had eight rebounds and two blocks.
The Sharks (9-18, 6-14 PacWest) were led by Tavia Rowell's 13 points.
Trailing 11-2 in the early stages of the game, Dean, along with seniors
Arianna Blowe (Monument, Colo./Lewis-Palmer), Dean and
Jamia Bailey (Yokosuka, Japan/Yokota), who were also playing their final games, each sank buckets during a modest 6-0 run.
HPU slowly began pulling away in the second quarter, taking its first double-digit lead midway through. The 'Swords managed to get to within 36-27 but were held to just one field goal in the final six minutes of the third quarter, although they remained within striking distance, down 47-33 heading into the final quarter.
But the injury-ravaged 'Swords could not generate enough offense to go on a significant run in the fourth.
Chaminade shot 28.8 percent from the field but held HPU to just 27.7. The Sharks pulled down 43 rebounds, marking a rare instance were the 'Swords out-crashed HPU on the glass. Hawai'i Pacific had 13 assists to Chaminade's nine and had 15 steals. The Sharks also went 16-for-20 from the free throw line.
