She was also perfect on five free throws. Fahy also dished out 5 assists and grabbed 5 rebounds. She continued her offensive assault in Iona’s 61-57 loss to Manhattan. Here, she scored 24 points, shooting 8-for-13 from the floor (1-for-2 on 3-pointers) and 7-for-8 from the foul line. Fahy, with 1,107 career points, now stands in eighth place among Iona’s all-time scorers. The Gaels dropped to 3-9 overall and 2-1 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Dowling’s Laura Mullally, a junior from Athlone, Co. Westmeath, led the way with 15 points in a 67-57 victory over C.W. Post. She shot 6-for-11 from the floor, including 3-for-7 from beyond the 3-point line. In a 54-51 loss to New York Tech, Mullally threw in 11 points, on 4-for-9 shooting, 3-for-7 from outside the 3-point arc. Dowling is 5-5 overall and 5-2 in the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Quinnipiac won a pair last week, with Waterford junior Kim Fitzpatrick providing the conduit to the hoop. She was credited with four assists in a 78-62 victory over Lafayette. She also scored eight points, shooting 2-for-4 from the field and 4-for-4 from the foul line. She also had 4 steals. A 75-65 triumph over Mount St. Mary’s found Fitzpatrick registering 3 points and 7 assists. She had three steals here as the Bobcats improved to 7-3 overall and 2-0 in the Northeast Conference.
Another Connecticut school, Sacred Heart, improved to 7-4 and 2-1 in the NEC with wins over Monmouth, 70-50, and Fairleigh Dickinson, 78-67. The Pioneers’ Kate Maher, a Waterford senior, had solid outings in both wins. She scored 4 points in the Monmouth blowout, hitting 2-for-4 from the floor, while collecting six rebounds and earning three assists. She chipped in 9 points against FDU on 4-for-6 shooting, including 1-for-1 on 3-pointers, while hauling down 7 rebounds and assisting on three buckets.
Monmouth’s Niamh Dwyer was held to just 7 points against Sacred Heart. She finished the game 2-for-8 from the field and 2-for-2 on free throws. The Thurles, Co. Tipperary, junior and the Hawks (5-6, 1-1 NEC) then recovered in a big way to down Wagner, 77-60. Dwyer led all scorers with 26 points as she shot 8-for-17 from the floor and 7-for-8 from the line. She also grabbed 9 rebounds and had 5 assists and 3 steals.
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Aine O’Dwyer continues to progress in her freshman season. She was high scorer in a 71-68 loss to Caldwell, throwing in 19 points, shooting 9-for-16 from the floor, including 1-for-3 from long range. She was credited with 9 rebounds. The forward from Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, then scored 11 points in NJIT’s 68-56 loss to Teikyo Post. She shot 4-for-11 from the floor and 3-for-6 from the foul line. Eight rebounds fell her way. NJIT is 4-7.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Mt. Aloysius’ Barry Kelleher appears to prefer quality over quantity. The junior from Cork didn’t miss in a limited number of field goal attempts last week as his team lost to Hood, 83-73, and Baptist Bible, 105-89. Kelleher scored 4 points in the Hood loss, converting both field goal attempts. He also had 3 rebounds. The Baptist Bible game saw him rack up 8 points, making all three shots from the floor and dropping both foul shots. He also had 4 rebounds and 2 assists. All of that came in just 10 minutes. Unfortunately for Kelleher and the Mount (now winless in 12 outings), his big number for the night was a five. That was the number of personal fouls he amassed.
Perhaps a month’s break left Simon Behan a little too fresh. The Middlebury guard ran into foul trouble in his team’s first two games of 2004, a 66-55 victory over Norwich and a 76-68 loss to RPI. Behan, a junior from Dublin, scored 8 points in the Norwich win on 3-for-4 shooting from the floor and 2-for-2 from the foul line. He grabbed 4 rebounds and managed 2 steals in 17 minutes. Against RPI, Behan posted 12 points, hitting 4-for-6 from the field, including 2-for-3 from bonus land, plus 2-for-2 from the line. He added five caroms and four assists in his 23 minutes. Middlebury (8-2) also defeated Colby-Sawyer, 83-63, and Plattsburgh State, 76-75. Behan did not score in the Colby-Sawyer win, attempting only one field goal. He dished out 7 assists and grabbed 4 rebounds in just 13 minutes, though. He threw in 8 points against Plattsburgh (1-for-5 from the floor, 6-for-13 from the stripe), while distributing the ball on five baskets and reeling in 6 rebounds.
Davidson split games against two Southern Conference rivals last week. The Wildcats (6-8, 1-2 SoCon) defeated the Citadel, 68-44, with Dublin junior Conor Grace controlling the boards by grabbing 8 rebounds. He scored just 2 points in his 23 minutes on the floor. Grace then put in 7 points in a 95-91 loss to Chattanooga. He shot 3-for-7 from the floor and 1-for-3 from the foul line. He also collected 6 rebounds in 24 minutes, with his play limited due to 4 personal fouls.
Michael Westbrooks must have had Petula Clark’s “Downtown” ringing through his head in Colby’s 77-59 loss to Bates. The Dublin sophomore hit on three of his four tries from long range. He finished the game with 14 points, also hitting 2-for-4 from in close and 1-for-2 from the foul stripe. Colby (4-9) also lost a heartbreaker to Southern Maine, 66-65, with Westbrooks putting 8 points on the board, shooting 4-for-10 from the field. He also grabbed 6 caroms.
Colin O’Reilly chimed in with 9 points to help Teikyo Post (7-4) defeat NJIT, 93-83. The sophomore guard from Cork cashed on 3 of 5 from the floor, including 1 of 3 from bonus land, plus 2 of 2 from the foul line.
Eoin O’Brien scored 4 points, all on free throws (from six attempts), as Oakland City (8-7) defeated Temple Baptist, 96-73. O’Brien is a senior guard from Malahide, Co. Dublin.
GYMNASTICS
UCLA’s Holly Murdock competed in three events as the Bruins lost to Utah, 197.35-196.375. The best showing for the sophomore from Derriaghy, Co. Antrim, came on the bars, where she placed ninth of 12 gymnasts with a score of 9.700. She was 11th on the beam, scoring 9.750, and 12th in the vault with 8.550. The meet was the season opener for UCLA, the defending NCAA champions.
SWIMMING
Kentucky’s men’s team downed South Carolina, 131-108. Dublin sophomore Steven Manley recorded victories for the Wildcats in both the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle races. In the longer heat, he touched the wall in 9:30.48, with his closest pursuer along in 9:37.79. The 500-yard race found Manley finishing in 4:34.17, with the second finisher along in 4:40.73. Kentucky’s Mark Doyle, a Dublin freshman, was fourth in that race in 4:44.39. Doyle also took fourth place in the 200-yard freestyle, which he swam in 1:44.16, against a winning 1:40.23.
Florida’s women’s team, ranked third in the nation, defeated No. 16 Arizona State, 164-127. The Gators’ Chantal Gibney contributed a victory and two second-place finishes. Gibney, a senior from Dublin, won the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 2:03.53, with the runnerup finishing in 2:03.85. Gibney was runnerup at both 50 meters (in 26.53 against a winning 26.24) and 100 meters (in 57.89 against a winning 57.02).
Tennessee’s Andrew Bree picked up a win and a second in the Vols’ 135-106 loss to Virginia. Bree, a senior from Helens Bay, Co. Down, won the 200-yard intermediate medley with a 1:50.57 clocking, just a tenth of a second ahead of his nearest rival. He took second in the 200-yard breaststroke, which he swam in 2:00.48. The winner finished in 1:59.75.