The second seeded Axewomen did that and dug down deep to erase a nine-point deficit at the fourth quarter going on a 30-15 run in the final quarter to pick up the 71-65 victory over the Capers, ranked fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmsdale\u2019s Sarah Delorey was a key player on the inside for the Axewomen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the final against CBU, the Hants East Tigers girls basketball alum contributed 11 points and nine rebounds (four offensive and five defensive) in 29 minutes played. Delorey also had one block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reached by phone after arriving back in Wolfville, Delorey said it still hadn\u2019t hit her that they won the AUS Women\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis has been what we\u2019ve been working for all year,\u201d said Delorey. \u201cThe sound of that is so good. It\u2019s still so surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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She said her family were in the crowd and got to celebrate the special moment post-game with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI got to see them after the game and get pictures,\u201d said Delorey. \u201cIt was great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am just so thankful for all the support from my family and friends and happy they could all be there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delorey spoke about how the Axewomen rallied back from trailing to win the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGoing into half we knew we could do it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t playing our game the first half, so we had to come out in the second half and play our game as strong as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGoing into the fourth quarter, being down by only single digits we knew it was still possible. We knew it could be our last quarter of basketball for the season, so we wanted to make a push, and get the win. That\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the semi-final on Saturday, an 86-82 victory over SMU, Delorey had 19 points in 22 minutes of action; six rebounds (three offensive and three defensive); two assists; and one steal and one block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She talked about her performance on the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have great teammates that are good at finding me when I\u2019m open,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just going to keep working and get ready for nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delorey commented about teammate Jayda Veinot\u2019s offensive explosion notching 34 points in leading the resilient Axewomen\u2019s charge back from trailing in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJayda is always someone we can rely on,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s the engine of our team. She gets us going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delorey and the Axewomen will now represent the AUS at the U-Sports women\u2019s basketball championship next week in Kingston, Ont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”156″] HALIFAX: The Acadia Axewomen knew they had to get back to playing their game in the second half of the SUBWAY AUS Women\u2019s basketball championships against a game and fierce Cape Breton University squad. The second seeded Axewomen did that and dug down deep to erase a nine-point deficit at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[1665,3380,2781,69,986,1198,197],"class_list":["post-27182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-acadia-axewomen","tag-atlantic-university-sport","tag-aus","tag-basketball","tag-elmsdale","tag-hants-east-rural-high","tag-herh-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOUdiypXoAANzTt-768x1024.jpg\")