Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
All of a sudden Coach Trina turned into Dr. Phil.
There were just 5 minutes, 46 seconds left in the seesaw game and Wright State was trailing longtime rival Green Bay by five points when – right there on the Nutter Center sideline Thursday night – Raiders’ coach Katrina Merriweather morphed into the TV talk show psychologist.
Angel Baker — the sometimes magnificent, sometimes mercurial sophomore standout for the Raiders — had momentarily lapsed into the latter.
She had fouled Frankie Wurtz who was launching a three-point attempt and that meant the Phoenix sharpshooter — she’d end up making 12 of 15 free throws and scoring 27 points — would be getting three foul shots.
As soon as Baker had been whistled, the emotions began swirling and she ran the length of the court, stopping near the baseline in front of her own bench. That’s when the frustration and self-flagellation momentarily took hold.
“I was just worked up, telling myself I had to be smarter than that,” Baker said later.
It was her third foul in just 75 seconds and her fourth of the night.
