Wahine basketball team suffers a lost weekend

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY This is not the way any college basketball team wants to head into the start of conference play.

“Tough weekend. Really good teams, lots of areas to improve on, ” said University of Hawaii women’s coach Laura Beeman on Sunday.

Her team suffered a severe reversal of fortune after an undefeated record was among the things it had to be thankful for before Friday.

“You don’t want to go 0-3, especially at home, ” she said.

That’s especially the case since the Rainbow Wahine open Big West competition at UC Davis on Thursday and Cal State Fullerton on Saturday.

Sophie Glancey scored 19 points and Kylee Fox added 18 to lead Santa Clara past Hawaii 76-57 on Sunday in the last game of the American Savings Bank Rainbow Wahine Showdown at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.

UH (4-3 ) lost all three games in three days of the round robin event. The scores widened on each day, starting with a six-point loss to Vermont on Friday and then by nine to Lindenwood on Saturday. On Sunday, UH trailed by 23 with 1 :25 left.

“There are areas where we need to grow very, very quickly, ” Beeman said. “Today we ran into a buzz saw. … They beat us in every statistical category that matters.”

The most glaring was a 24-2 difference in points scored off of turnovers. The Wahine gave up the ball 24 times compared to six for the Broncos.

Santa Clara built a 14-point lead with 3 :47 to go in the first half, thanks largely to 13 points off of 13 UH giveaways before the break. Two free throws by Santa Clara’s Ashley Hawkins, who was fouled on a buzzer heave, made it 35-25 at the break, and that could not have been good for the home team’s halftime morale.

Regardless, the Wahine battled back after intermission, closing the gap to 39-35 on Teyahna Bond’s driving layup midway through the third quarter. But Fox responded immediately with a 3-pointer to start an 8-0 run.

Worse was to come for the Wahine, though, as the Broncos assembled a bigger streak with 11 at the end of the third quarter and the start of the fourth. That run grew to 18-2, and a 71-45 Santa Clara lead. Izzy Forsyth, Kyra Webb and Bailey Flavell finally clustered seven points for a too little, too late Hawaii rally.

Flavell led the Wahine with 10 points and Imani Perez and Forsyth added nine each. Perez was team-high with eight rebounds, while Santa Clara’s Glancey had 12.

UH has won three of the last four Big West regular-season championships. But Hawaii is young and rebuilding, with eight newcomers joining seven returnees for the program’s last season before moving to the Mountain West.

To compound the personnel transition, several players have had limited court time with new teammates due to injuries.

“We have some growing pains, ” said Beeman, whose bench players outscored the starting five for the second time in three games.

Santa Clara (7-3 overall ) went 2-1 in the three-day event, as did Lindenwood (6-2 ) and Vermont (6-3 ).

Brooke Coffey scored 15 and Aleshia Jones had 14 as Lindenwood beat Vermont 58-54 in Sunday’s early game. Vermont’s Keira Hanson was game-high with 16.

Jones was voted MVP, and was joined by Flavell, Glancey, Coffey, Hanson and Vermont’s Nikola Priede on the all-tournament team.

SANTA CLARA 76, HAWAII 57 BRONCOS (7-3 )

NO. PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT OR-DR REB PF A TO BLK STL PTS 12 Glancey 32 8-19 1-6 2-2 5-7 12 2 0 0 0 1 19 30 Fox 29 7-12 4-8 0-0 2-4 6 1 2 1 0 2 18 00 Jones 20 5-10 2-5 3-3 1-3 4 2 5 0 3 1 15 23 Hawkins 28 2-9 0-3 4-5 1-1 2 0 3 0 0 1 8 13 Schmidt 24 2-10 2-7 0-0 0-2 2 1 1 1 3 4 6 20 Miller 20 2-6 1-2 0-0 0-3 3 2 3 0 0 1 5 03 Schat 6 1-2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 02 Hooker 28 1-7 0-2 0-0 1-2 3 1 0 2 0 3 2 34 Gildersleeve-Stiles 9 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 06 Grieger 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 11 Goodchild 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 Grover 0 + 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TEAM 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 200 28-77 11-34 9-10 13-26 39 11 16 6 6 13 76 Percentages 36.4 32.4 90.0 RAINBOW WAHINE (4-3 )

NO. PLAYER MIN FG 3PT FT OR-DR REB PF A TO BLK STL PTS 03 Flavell, 23 3-10 1-1 3-4 0-6 6 0 1 2 0 0 10 12 Perez 23 4-7 1-2 0-0 1-7 8 0 1 0 1 1 9 02 Bond 23 2-5 0-0 0-0 0-2 2 1 2 4 0 1 4 33 Neverson 14 0-2 0-0 2-2 1-4 5 3 1 2 0 0 2 08 Moors 11 0-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 20 Forsyth 20 3-7 3-5 0-0 0-1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 24 Tamilo 15 3-4 0-0 1-1 1-1 2 1 1 2 0 0 7 06 Webb 20 2-6 0-0 1-2 0-1 1 2 1 1 0 0 5 07 Collins 5 1-3 0-1 2-2 1-0 1 1 0 3 0 0 4 01 Filemu 17 1-5 1-3 0-0 1-2 3 1 0 3 2 1 3 10 Kujovic 6 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 17 Serra 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 Curtis 12 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 3 1 0 3 0 0 0 22 Peacock 9 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 TEAM 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-7 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 Totals 200 21-55 6-13 9-11 9-35 44 12 11 24 6 4 57 Percentages 38.2 46.2 81.8 Score By Period SANTA CLARA 20 15 21 20—76 HAWAII 8 17 18 14 – 57 Technical fouls—none. Officials—Starr Rivera, Dominique Hunter, Robert Scofield.

A—1, 594.