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Georgia beats Stanford to reach the NCAA women’s regional final

<p>The result of Georgia versus Stanford basket ball match was exactly similar to what was anticipated by the Georgia coach Andy Lander&period; Andy Lander had anticipated a long time ago that Georgia will win the match against Stanford and even the final score of the match was exactly the same&period; Georgia scored 61 and won the match&comma; while Stanford scored 59 and lost the match&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jasmine Hassel was one of the top scorers of the match&period; She scored thirteen points in the match and out of these thirteen point&comma; six points were scored in the last three minutes of the match&period; With the help of this final minute score by Jasmine Hassel&comma; Georgia was able to beat Stanford&period; With this much anticipated win&comma; Georgia reached the NCAA regional final for women&period; Since 2004&comma; this is the first time that Georgia reached the final of the tournament&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;&quest;attachment&lowbar;id&equals;2906" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-2906"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2906" alt&equals;"Georgia beats Stanford to reach the NCAA women’s regional final" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;04&sol;Georgia-beats-Stanford-to-reach-the-NCAA-womens-regional-final&period;jpg" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" &sol;><&sol;a>During some of the moments in the match&comma; it seemed that Georgia will lose the match&period; There was a time in the match when the score was 9 for Stanford and 0 for Georgia&comma; but Georgia played flawlessly and was able to beat the top seeded Stanford&period; With this defeat&comma; Stanford’s hope for reaching the final four ended for six years at a stretch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jasmine James was one of the other top scorers from Georgia&comma; she scored 16 points&period; With these 16 points she was able to help her team to reach the regional finals for the 11th time under the coaching of Andy Lander&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After the end of the match&comma; the Georgia coach praised the players of his team&period; He said that all the players did very well in the match&period; He also added that it was the dedicative effort of the players on the floor that fetch them the victory&period; Chiney Ogwumike was another top scorer from Georgia&comma; she scored 26 points&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Georgia will have another match on Monday night against the Golden Bears&period; If they win the match on Monday&comma; then they will reach the final four&period; Since 1999&comma; Georgia has not reached the final four&period; Only in 2005-07 and in 2010-11 Georgia reached the round of 16 and every time they were ousted from this stage&period; In 2010&comma; they suffered a huge defeat of 36-73 against the same Stanford&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amber Orrange was one of the top scorers from the team of Stanford&period; She scored 17 points&comma; but out of 24 she scored only 7 points on the field&period; Joslyn Tinkle was the second leading scorer from the team of Stanford&period; In spite of being the second top scorer from Stanford&comma; she was suffering in the first half from foul trouble&period; She was unable to score for a stretch of 35 minutes in the first half&period; At last she managed to score at least 5 points&period; In the final seconds Tinkle scored 3 points&comma; but it was not good enough to fetch Stanford a victory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At last&comma; Lander added that Georgia’s defense was very good in the match and that they suffered from droughts rarely&period; This was the main reason why Georgia had won the match on Saturday night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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