Photo Courtesy / Neil Hogan

The blustery winter weather outside the UTSC gymnasium may have been the perfect cover for UTM’s Eagles to sneak onto campus and install Plexiglas over top of the basketball hoop on their end of the court.  It took a full seven minutes for UTSC women’s basketball team to figure out how to penetrate it, which cost them a fourth-straight loss, this one 38-34.

Despite being blanked for nearly an entire quarter, UTSC did take possession of the lead in the game’s final quarter with just over five minutes to play, spurred on by four quick points by Danielle Ridout. In the end, the women from Scarborough simply ran out of gas. Though their ball movement far outmatched their Mississauga opponents’, the ladies got into foul trouble in the first half of the game, accounting for 10 UTM points from the line.

The girls just couldn’t seem to sink anything in the first half, though the court seemed tilted in their favour early on. Mississauga’s counter offense and solid rebounding proved effective enough to have an eight-point lead over Scarborough heading into the third quarter.  UTSC outscored the Eagles 22-18 in the second half.

Freshman star, Angela Lecce led UTSC in, scoring with 14 points, while veterans Cris Arribas and Anna Moncada were held largely off the score sheet, each tallying only a single basket.

UTSC’s women are in action downtown against St. George A on Sunday, Jan. 30.