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Julie Ganz


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WBBALL: Hot shooting spurs Judges past New York

With 11 minutes, 41 seconds left in last Saturday's game against New York University, reserve forward Amber Strodthoff '11 found point guard and co-captain Kiersten Holgash '08, who nailed her third consecutive outside shot in a span of less than two minutes.Holgash's shots gave Brandeis a 14-point lead, and the Judges held off a 24-13 Violets scoring tear down the stretch to win 63-60 and secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season.


WBBALL: Team tops Case after loss to Emory

With just under 15 minutes remaining in the second half of last Sunday's game against Case Western Reserve University, the women's basketball team was at a critical point, leading by just two points after surrendering a double-digit first-half lead.


ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jaime Capra '08

Coming off of an all-American 2006-2007 season, guard Jamie Capra '08 began this season with the worst shooting slump of her college career, hitting just 28 percent of her field goal attempts.


WBBALL: Judges vanquish two foes on road

Down by a point with 1 minute, 58 seconds remaining in last Sunday's game at Emory University, captain and guard Jamie Capra '08 found herself in her familiar spot at the free throw line-where she had made all nine of her shots thus far in the game- attempting to put Brandeis ahead following one of the strangest sequences one will ever see."That was a big point in the game," Capra said.


WBBALL: Judges go cold in second half

Prior to the start of the season, point guard Kiersten Holgash '08 said one of the women's basketball team's goals would be to "play a solid 40-minute game." But while the Judges have been able to accomplish that goal for the most part so far this season, they were unable to do so in their first University Athletic Association game against No.


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