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Senior Jessica Adair posted her 15th career double-double with 15 points and 12 boards in GW's 55-48 victory over Rhode Island Sunday.
 
Senior Jessica Adair posted her 15th career double-double with 15 points and 12 boards in GW's 55-48 victory over Rhode Island Sunday.
  

Feb. 8, 2009

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WASHINGTON, DC - Powered by senior Jessica Adair's 15-point, 12-rebound double-double, George Washington won for the seventh time in its last eight games and extended its winning streak to 15 straight over Rhode Island with a 55-48 victory at Charles E. Smith Center Sunday afternoon.

GW (14-9) remains in a three-way tie for third place in the Atlantic 10 standings with Temple and St. Bonaventure at 6-2 in league play. The Colonials travel to Cincinnati Wednesday to face two-time defending A-10 champion No. 23/21 Xavier.

Adair was nearly perfect offensively, connecting on 6-of-7 field goals and 3-of-4 foul shots in posting her third double-double of the season and 15th of her career. She also added two blocks and two steals, while seven of her game-high 12 rebounds came on the offensive end. Senior Yolanda Lavender added 11 points and a game-high four assists, followed by eight points and five rebounds from freshman Tara Booker.

The teams' traded the lead five times in the first half and were tied at 20-20 with less than three minutes left in the period until Jessica Adair gave the hosts the lead for good with a fadeaway jumper to make it 22-20 and the Colonials led 24-22 at halftime.

GW widened its lead to 33-24 with a 7-0 spurt early in the second half, but Sierra Cooper scored URI's first eight points of the stanza and helped narrow her team's deficit to 35-30 on a pair of foul shots with 12:37 remaining. Cooper led all players with 20 points.

The Colonials quickly rebuilt their lead to the largest of the game, 41-30, just two minutes later behind a pair of baskets from sophomore Ivy Abiona and transition layup from freshman Tiana Myers.

 

 

Rhode Island (9-14, 2-6 A-10) again cut the margin to five, 44-39, on Sherrie Session's three-pointer with 6:36 remaining, but GW converted 9-of-12 free throws in the final minutes to improve to 19-0 all-time against the Rams at Smith Center.

GW shot just 36.2 percent (17-of-47) and committed 22 turnovers, but limited URI to 32.2 percent shooting, including an 8-for-29 effort (27.6 percent) in the first half.

Jessica Adair passed Anna Montanana to move into 14th on GW's career scoring list with 1,344 points. She also passed Whitney Allen for 10th on the career rebounds list with 700 boards.

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