Johnson Trips VTC 67-57

Jennifer Ferrari tallied 19 points and 11 rebounds as the Badgers defeated Vermont Technical College 67-57 on Monday night

JOHNSON, Vt. (November 29, 2010) -  Johnson State College evened their record at 2-2 on the early season as they turned over visiting Vermont Technical College 21 times en route to a 67-57 non-conference women's basketball victory.  The loss is Vermont Tech's first on the year falling to 3-1 overall.

Johnson State saw sophomore forward Jennifer Ferrari (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) toss in 19 points and grab 11 rebounds to lead the charge while junior Andrea Deuell (Milton, Vt./Milton) added 15 points and freshman Molly Grover (Cumberland, Maine/Cheverus) contributed 11 points.

Vermont Tech was led by Kelly Vellek (Burlington, Vt.) and her 17-point effort.  Abby Scholten (Weybridge, Vt.) scored 15 and Kelsey Ward (Swanton, Vt.) was a standout with a 14-point, 12-rebound effort.

Macy Lavoie (Swanton, Vt./Missisquoi) banked home a long three-pointer with the shot clock running down with 12:51 remaining to give the Badgers a 19-5 lead to open the game.  The margin would grow to 19 at 39-20 when Ferrari canned a 3-pointer of her own with 3:28 left to play in the first stanza.

But the Knights would cut the lead to 16 heading into the halftime break and continue to claw as Scholten hit a baseline jumper to cut the lead down to 13 points at 52-39 with 10:11 left to play.

JSC would answer though with a 11-3 surge to put the game all but away as the lead swelled to 21 points at 63-42 on a pretty fast break finish by Deuell.

VTC would shoot 24-28 (85.7%) from the free throw line on the night and outrebound the home team 38-29 to stay close.  Johnson's connected on 9-of-24 3-point field goal attempts on the evening while collecting 11 steals.

Johnson will play host to St. Joseph (Vt.) on Wednesday at 5:30 in their next contest while VTC will host Lyndon State on Tuesday night at 6:00 pm.