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Quick Titan Start Sinks Saginaw Valley, 85-61

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Post-game chat with Autumn Rademacher and Yar Shayok

A torrid getaway and senior guard Brigid Mulroy's 19 points – all in the first half – fueled the Titans' 85-61 victory over visiting Saginaw Valley State Wednesday in Detroit's lone exhibition game of the 2009 pre-season.

Demeisha Fambro tossed in 18 more for the Titans, while Yar Shayok (16), Lauren Allen (13) and Kassandra Hooten (10) also posted double figures for Detroit. Shayok completed an impressive double-double by collecting 20 rebounds.

Guard Kelly Wesp paced three Cardinals in double figured with 13 points.

Behind a barrage of three-pointers, the Titans opened up a 17-1 lead in the first four-and-a-half minutes before SVSU even made a shot from the field, and UDM kept the lead the rest of the way. Mulroy did the heavy lifting in the early going, connecting on four of her first five shots from the floor to score 11 of the Titans' opening 17 points. The Cardinals, meanwhile, missed their first four attempts while also committing three turnovers in the early going before finally connecting.

 “We made a conscious effort to find Brigid on the floor,” Titans coach Autumn Rademacher said. “Her strength is her three-point shot and, when we get in the paint, if she is open we know where to get the ball. That's what we did during the first run.”

Saginaw Valley made three runs at UDM after the Titans' quick start though, cutting Detroit's lead to six on three occasions before ending the half with a 45-38 deficit. It took the Titans just 4:08 to push their lead back into double figures following intermission, though, and the visitors never crept closer than 10 the rest of the night before Detroit settled for its 24-point victory

Detroit shot .429 from the floor – making 11 of 28 attempts from three-point territory – while holding SVSU to .379 accuracy. Detroit outrebounded the Cardinals, 52-38, and had just 13 turnovers as compared to the visitors' 19 miscues.

The Titans will now turn their attention to their regular season schedule, which is just around the corner. They open up Friday, Nov. 13 at Oakland, two days prior to their home debut against 10th-ranked Michigan State. Game time against the Spartans on Nov. 15 is 12:00 noon in the first game of a UDM men's-women's doubleheader.

In other Titan news, Rademacher announced on Wednesday that sophomore Jaleesa Trussell has left the women's basketball team for personal reasons and will not return to UDM for the winter semester.

 -Detroit Titans-
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