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Dec 1- Junior Michelle Cozad led the Broncos in scoring for the third straight contest, netting 34 points to lead the Santa Clara University women's basketball team to a 79-69 victory over Sacramento State tonight at Hornet Gym
lt;bgt;Pictured:lt;/bgt;lt;igt; Cozad's 34 points ties for the second best individual game performance by a Bronco.lt;/igt; lt;pgt; Dec 1- Junior Michelle Cozad led the Broncos in scoring for the third straight contest, netting 34 points to lead the Santa Clara University women's basketball team to a 79-69 victory over Sacramento State tonight at Hornet Gym. Her output ties for the second best individual game performance by a Bronco, last seen by Caroline Gruening against Saint Mary's at the 00 West Coast Conference Championships. lt;pgt; Senior Whitney Sutak added 17 points off the bench, as the Broncos improve to - on the season. The Hornets drop their home opener and remain winless at 0-. lt;pgt; "I didn't think we started the game with as much intensity and we got in tremendous foul trouble," head coach Michelle Bento-Jackson said post-game. "However, everybody stepped up and we pulled off a win on the road, which is something to be proud of." lt;pgt; Tyeisha Brown came off the bench to lead Sacramento State with 18 points, while Danielle Iceman and Katelyn Ciampi added 14 and 11 respectively. Jessica Voisard pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds for the Hornets. lt;pgt; The Broncos shot a season-high 1 percent from the field, but 9 fouls gave Sacrament State 4 chances from the free throw line, the most in a single contest against Santa Clara in program history. lt;pgt; Bronco freshman Ashley Graham opened the night with a three from the left wing, followed by senior Jennie Rondel's lay-up to extend the team's advantage. Early foul trouble sent Sacramento State to the line often, and the Hornets scored 14 of 1 from the charity stripe in the first half. lt;pgt; During a four-minute stretch midway through the frame, Sutak and Cozad hit back-to-back threes to spark a 16- Bronco run. The duo capped the streak with back-to-back drives that opened a 3- lead, Santa Clara's largest of the half. A time out allowed Sacramento State to regroup and the Hornets cut the lead to four just outside the two-minute mark, but Sutak answered with another three and had 10 points by the break. lt;pgt; In all, the teams traded leads four times and saw five ties during the period, but the Broncos came away with a 4-36 advantage at intermission, marking the team's first halftime lead of the season. Santa Clara accomplished the feat by shooting 60.7 percent from the field, including -9 from behind the arc. lt;pgt; Foul trouble found the Broncos again to start the second half, as Santa Clara was whistled five times in the period's first and one-half minutes. The Broncos recovered and slowly extended their lead, with a three-point play by freshman Ashley Gonnerman returning Santa Clara's advantage to double digits, 8-48 midway through the half. Two minutes later, the Broncos pushed that lead to 1, 6-0, with two free throws from Gonnerman. lt;pgt; Three Broncos fouled out in the final eight minutes: Gonnerman, Rondel and redshirt freshman Tori Markey. lt;pgt; The Hornets mounted a charge and halved that lead to seven, at 74-67, just inside the three-minute mark, with two free throws from Samania Black. It would be as close as Sacramento State would come, as a three-point play by Cozad restored the double-digit lead. lt;Pgt;
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