{"id":33252,"date":"2015-03-09T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=33252"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T02:42:53","slug":"rockets-down-miami-62-47-in-first-round-mac-tournament-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_09_2015\/rockets-down-miami-62-47-in-first-round-mac-tournament-contest","title":{"rendered":"Rockets down Miami, 62-47, in first-round MAC Tournament contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freshman guard Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott scored 17 points, and sophomore center Sophie Reecher added 12 points and 13 rebounds to lead Toledo to a 62-47 victory over Miami in first-round Women\u2019s Basketball Mid-American Conference Tournament action in Savage Arena Monday night.<\/p>\n

\"Jay-Ann<\/a>

Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott led the Rockets with 17 points in the win over Miami.<\/p><\/div>The No. 7 seed Rockets advance to play No. 6 seed Eastern Michigan at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Wednesday, March 11. Game time is officially 30 minutes after the first game, which begins at noon, putting tipoff at approximately 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Rockets out-rebounded Miami 50-32 and held the Redhawks to 32 percent from the floor and 1 of 14 from three-point range. Junior forward Ana Capotosto and senior guard Inma Zanoguera helped Toledo dominate the boards, adding 10 rebounds each.<\/p>\n

Kayla Brown led the Redhawks with 15 points, and Hannah McCue contributed nine points.
\nToledo (18-12) never trailed to No. 10 seed Miami (7-23). Both teams started slowly, with each squad shooting 16.7 percent (2 of 12) from the floor during the first eight minutes of play. However, the Rockets took a 7-2 lead on a jumper by Zanoguera with 14:27 left in the first half. <\/p>\n

The Rockets extended their lead to six (10-4) before Miami rallied to cut the lead to 12-9 with 8:51 remaining in the first half. The Midnight Blue and Gold then went on a 10-2 run capped by a couple of free throws from Capotosto to put the Rockets ahead 22-11 with 5:24 left. Toledo would maintain the lead throughout the rest of the first half and take a 30-20 point lead into the locker room.<\/p>\n

The Rockets started hot in the second half, extending their lead to 16 (42-26) on a 12-6 run capped by a three pointer from sophomore forward Janice Monakana with 15:56 remaining in the game. Toledo would continue to build the lead to as much as 20 points (56-36) before settling on a 62-47 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UT advanced in the Mid-American Conference Tournament by beating Miami, 62-47, Monday in Savage Arena. The Rockets will face Eastern Michigan Wednesday, March 11, in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}