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Defense paves way for Girard in victories against Colgan The second point concerned defense.
“I told them we really needed to step it up,” he said. “Because our shots weren’t going in, we weren’t able to set up our pressure.” And the third point was over tempo. “We needed to get out and run the court,” he said. The Trojans got shots to fall, hitting their first four attempts in the third quarter. They stepped up their pressure defense, forcing 10 Panther turnovers after halftime. And they ran up and down the court, scoring 41 points in the second half after managing just 16 in the first. Carly Twarog, a 5-foot-6 sophomore guard, scored a game-high 16 points as Girard improved to 17-3 while completing an 8-0 run through the CNC. Sophomore Morgan Boore added 11 points off the bench and senior Alysha Poteat contributed nine points despite prevailing foul trouble. The Panthers, ending up at 6-2 in the CNC, got 15 points from Lisa Elmer and 10 from Ashley Werner. Annie Dellasega scored eight off the bench. Boore’s three-point play capped a 9-0 Trojan run for a 27-22 lead at the 5:33 mark of the third quarter and the Panthers got no closer than three the rest of the way. Twarog scored twice from under the basket early in the fourth quarter as the Trojans beat the Panthers down the floor for three easy buckets to open a 46-33 lead. Girard, 7-for-24 from the field in the first half, shot a sizzling 13-for-22 in the second half. Colgan wound up just 15-for-51 for the night. 
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