STANFORD, Calif. – Elena Bosgana and Chloe Clardy combined for 28 points and 13 rebounds and Stanford snapped a two-game skid with a 58-46 win over visiting Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
The game was sparse on offense at the start. The two teams combined to shoot 15-of-65 (.231) in the first half and neither team made a 3-pointer. Stanford (11-9, 3-6) was 0-of-16 and Pitt (9-13, 1-8) was 0-of-12. Bosgana made a driving layup as time expired, however, and the Cardinal led 19-14 at the break.
Bosgana was playing in front of her parents, Elisavet and Georgios, for the first time in a Cardinal uniform. The couple arrived from Greece on Monday, their first visit to Stanford, to see their daughter score 14 points and grab six rebounds. Bosgana scored nine of Stanford’s 19 first-half points on 4-of-9 shooting.
The Cardinal was much better in the third, shooting 9-of-14 (.643) from the floor and 4-of-7 (.571) from behind the arc. Stanford took its first double-digit lead when Bosgana drilled a triple from the left wing with just over two minutes remaining in the third quarter to make it 39-28.
Clardy scored 12 of her 14 points in the second half and pulled down a career-high seven rebounds. She hit Stanford’s first two shots in the third quarter to get her team going, a midrange jumper and a 3-pointer, and added seven more in the fourth, nailing another from distance and four free throws to close it out.
As a team, Stanford was 15-for-15 at the line, a program record for makes without a miss, surpassing a 14-for-14 effort at Arizona State on Jan. 11, 2019.
Pitt’s Khadija Faye led the Panthers with 21 points and 15 rebounds, but Stanford limited the rest of her squad and forced the fifth-year senior into a career-high eight turnovers.
Courtney Ogden came off the bench to score 10 points and grab a career-high nine rebounds. Brooke Demetre tied a career high with three blocks.
The Cardinal is back in action on Sunday at noon when it hosts No. 15 North Carolina on The CW.