North Carolina State University Athletics
Fields' Career Day Leads Hoops for Hope Win
2/10/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
RALEIGH, N.C. Shayla Fields scored a career-high 24 points to lead NC State to a 60-41 victory over Boston College during the third annual “Hoops for Hope” game on Sunday at Reynolds Coliseum.
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With all of NC State’s players donning pink jerseys and the name “Yow” on the back of their specially made Nike uniforms, the Wolfpack mustered a dominating defensive effort to snap a two-game skid.
Fields, who scored a then career-high 20 points last season at BC and scored 16 in a 60-59 setback earlier in the year at Chestnut Hill, converted 10 of 16 shots in the game, including 3 3-points in her ninth 40-minute effort of the season.
Khadijah Whittington added 13 points and eight rebounds for NC State (15-9, 3-6 ACC).
The freshmen duo of Carolyn Swords and Stefanie Murphy combined for 26 points and 20 boards for Boston College (17-7, 5-4 ACC), who have now dropped two straight in the league.
The top-ranked defense in the ACC held the Eagles scoreless for a 9:28 stretch that spanned both halves. The Pack broke open a 19-all game with 10 straight to close the first half. Fields and Amber White ignited the late run to give NC State some breathing room at the intermission.
White was a spark plug off the bench for the Wolfpack with seven points and a career-high six steals with four of those coming in the opening 20 minutes.
The Eagles 30 turnovers were its undoing as it led to 31 points off those miscues for the Pack.
NC State head coach Kay Yow and the Susan G. Komen Foundation teamed up again for the third edition of the “Hoops For Hope” game. The event is a breast cancer awareness event, in addition to a fund raising opportunity for the foundation. Hoops for Hope is a basketball game centered around hope hope for early detection, hope for increased survival and hope for a cure.
NC State and Boston College were among over 900 schools that are participating in “Think Pink” week (Feb. 8-17). “Think Pink” is the WBCA’s global, unified effort to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. Of course each NC State game is played with special meaning as Coach Yow has battled the disease since 1987.
NC State hosts Miami on Thursday at Kay Yow Court at 7 pm.
