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ODU Women Played Hard But Lost Their Shooting Touch and Fell to No. 3 NC State, 87-50

By Harry Minium

NORFOLK, Va. – For much of the first half Wednesday night, the Old Dominion women's basketball team played on nearly even terms with No. 3 NC State.
 
Brenda Fontana, ODU's 6-foot-1 junior forward from Argentina, made a fallaway three-point shot that gave the Monarchs a 19-18 lead with 8:29 left in the second quarter as a Chartway Arena crowd of 3,874 roared its approval.
 
But then the bottom fell out for ODU as the Monarchs missed 14 of their next 15 shots and Wolfpack quickly took control and routed ODU, 87-50.