Women's Basketball: Jan. 29 Scoreboard
Lamar 87, Sam Houston State 68
McNeese State 78, Southeastern Louisiana 57
A&M-Corpus Christi 63, UIW 54
Abilene Christian 53, Houston Baptist 50
Nicholls 56, New Orleans 40
Lamar 87, Sam Houston State 68
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The Lamar Lady Cardinals made the Sam Houston State Bearkats their latest victim of larceny.
The Lady Cardinals, ranked third in the nation in steals, had 12 steals as they forced Sam Houston State into 28 turnovers in Lamar’s 87-68 Southland Conference women’s basketball victory on Thursday. With the win, Lamar (10-10 overall, 7-2 Southland) moved into a first-place tie with Northwestern State.
Lamar outscored Sam Houston State (5-14, 4-5) in points off of turnovers, as the Bearkats couldn’t handle the Lady Cardinals’ relentless defense.
Lamar had four players score in double figures, led by
JaMeisha Edwards with 22 points.
Shauna Longhad 19 points, while
Addesha Collins and
Kiandra Bowers added 16 points apiece. Collins also contributed a career-high seven assists.
Lamar led 44-34 at halftime. The Bearkats cut the Lamar lead to 60-54 with 11:18 remaining before the Lady Cardinals went on a 12-3 run to take control for good.
Lamar drained 10 3-pointers on the game, led by Long, who was 5-of-6 from beyond the arc. Edwards had three treys, while Collins added two 3-pointers.
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McNeese State 78, Southeastern Louisiana 57
HAMMOND, La.—McNeese State put together a good second half from the field and had three players score in double figures in a 78-57 Southland Conference over Southeastern Louisiana Thursday.
Allison Baggett led all players with 21 points on 8 of 15 from the field and a perfect 5 of 5 from the free throw line. Baggett was 1 for 7 in the first half and 7 for 8 in the second half.
Amber Donnes, the Hammond native returned to her familiar surroundings to score 18 points including 4 of 7 from three-point range. Donnes ended the game 7 of 15 from the field to go along with six rebounds.
Johnson chipped in 13 points and was 4 of 6 from the free throw line. Johnson, who ranks third in the SLC in assist, ended the game with seven.
After shooting 29.3 percent from the field in the first half, the Cowgirls bounced back to shoot 56.3 percent in the second half (18 of 32). McNeese scored 26 of their points in the paint and outrebounded Southeastern La. 43-35.
Frederica Haywood grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds with six coming on the offensive end. Talisa Boyd was credited with seven rebounds while Ann Nwosah picked up five.
McNeese opened the second half on a 6-0 run to take its largest lead of the game of 10 points (38-28). SE La. responded with a 5-0 run of their own to cut the Cowgirl lead in half. McNeese never gave up the lead and held as much as a 20-point lead with 2:17 on two free throws by Johnson and then again with 1:07 on a layup by Boyd.
McNeese played through a sluggish first of shooting 29.3 percent from the field to take a 32-28 lead into the half.
Southeastern La. scored the games first four points on jumpers by Elizabeth Styles. Hammond native Amber Donnes got the Cowgirls on the scoreboard with her first of three 3-pointers of the half to cut the SE La. lead to 4-3. Allison Baggett was fouled while attempting a three and Baggett sank all three free throws to give McNeese their first lead of the game four minutes into the game.
After the Lady Lions tied the game at six all on a layup by Jameika Hoskins layup, Talisa Boyd’s jumper gave McNeese the lead for good. The Cowgirls extended their lead to seven points on back-to-back treys by Jayln Johnson and Donnes with less than 10 minutes in the half.
Nanna Pool entered the game for SE La. and scored the next six points to cut the Cowgirl lead to one (18-17) but the Cowgirls responded by scoring the next seven points on a jumper by Baggett, a three by Hannah Cupit and a Mercedes Rogers jumper to push the Cowgirl lead to 25-17. McNeese took its largest lead of nine points on another Donnes three.
McNeese (11-8, 5-3 SLC) ends a four game road swing with a 3-1 record and will return home Saturday to host New Orleans in a 4 p.m. game.
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A&M-Corpus Christi 63, UIW 54
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's basketball team improved to 6-2 in Southland Conference play after defeating Incarnate Word, 63-54, at the Dugan Wellness Center Thursday night behind
Shay Weaver's 22 points.
Incarnate Word's Jazmine Holman cut the lead to just four points with 3:22 remaining before the Islanders (10-9, 6-2 SLC) answered with four quick points on the other end. Junior
Ashanti Plummer, who finished with seven points, connected on a tough jumper in the paint with 1:52 remaining, drawing the foul in the process. Plummer missed the ensuing free throw but
Olivia Fouty corralled the loose ball for one of her four offensive rebounds and put it back up to make it an eight-point game with 1:50 left.
Weaver, an Arlington, Texas native scored 10 of her game-high 22 points in the second half to go along with seven rebounds. Sophomore
Camesha Davis added 12 points and eight boards, while
Jennifer Ramirez recorded a career-high 11 points on the night to go along with three rebounds and steals.
Though the Cardinals (5-13, 2-5 SLC) dressed just seven players, it did not stop them from hanging around throughout. The Islanders started the opening period on fire, knocking down four of their first five shots to go up 9-4. Incarnate Word answered right back though, with an 8-2 run to take the lead at 12-11.The hot start did not last for A&M-Corpus Christi though. From the 17:06 mark to the 7:09 mark the Islanders went 4-of-16 from the field.
On the other side of the ball, shots fell throughout for the Cardinals, who finished the half at 52 percent on 13-of-25 shooting. Desoto, Texas native C. Davis sent the Islanders to the locker room with a 31-28 lead on a buzzer beating shot from the baseline as time expired. Weaver paced the team in the half with 12 points, while C. Davis finished with six points and three boards.
Melina Merritt led the Cardinals with 15 points on 4-of-7 shooting. Yvonne Maosa added 13 points and three rebounds in the loss.
The Islanders out-rebounded the Cardinals 43-31 on the night and 17-10 on the offensive glass, but turned those second chances into just 11 points.
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Abilene Christian 53, Houston Baptist 50
ABILENE, Texas - An incredible 19-3 game-ending run by the Abilene Christian women's basketball team carried the Wildcats to an exciting 53-50 comeback victory over Houston Baptist Thursday night at Sharp Gym.
The triumph was ACU's third straight and lifted its overall and conference records to 11-8 and 3-5, while the Huskies fell to 8-11 and 2-6.
It appeared tonight's game just wasn't going to go the Wildcats' way during some stretches, but after the Huskies' Monet Neal sank a layup with 9:37 remaining, ACU's defense went into total lockdown mode by forcing eight turnovers and holding HBU to 0-for-7 on field goal attempts.
This team effort on defense translated into points on offense as the Wildcats steadily chipped away at their game-high 14-point deficit starting with a pair of free throws by
Alyssa Echols and continuing with back-to-back layups from
Lizzy Dimba and
Sydney Shelstead that made it a 46-34 game.
ACU later scored eight straight points coming out of an officials' time out taken to get within five (47-42) with 9:05 to go, and made it a one-possession game after
Alexis Mason buried one of her two 3-pointers.
A layup from
Suzzy Dimba tied the game at 48-48 with 2:44 to go, and after a pair of free throws by HBU's Rachel Arthur dropped in, West countered with a huge 3-pointer that gave the Wildcats their first lead (51-50) since the 4:11 mark of the first half.
West came through once more in the closing seconds, blocking out to grab an offensive rebound after Mason missed both free throws with her team clinging to the one-point lead. And on the final play of the game,
Suzzy Dimba pulled down her eighth rebound off a missed 3-pointer by Erin McGarrachan.
ACU buried some 3-pointers early in the first half to jump out to a 20-12 lead but soon went cold as the Wildcats failed to score a single point from the 12:08 to the :25 second mark.
Suzzy Dimba hit the last of three Wildcat treys in the first half with 12:49 to go and that would be ACU's final field goal as the Huskies finshed on a 18-2 run to take a 28-22 lead into halftime.
The Wildcats shot 24.1 percent (7-29) in the first half and connected on just 3-of-17 long-range attempts. HBU didn't exactly shoot much better, making 11-of-31 attempts (.355), but outscored ACU in the paint, 14-8, and off the bench, 18-0.
The Huskies also carrried a 27-19 rebound advantage into the break.
For the game, West, Mason and
Suzzy Dimba shared the team lead in points with 12 as the Wildcats finished shooting .315 (17-54) with five 3-pointers. West and
Suzzy Dimba also led their side with four steals.
The Huskies shot .328 on the night with most of their scoring taking place in the latter part of the first half and the start of the second when they produced 32 of their 50 points. Neal was their high scorer with nine points, while Anna Strickland had 17 rebounds off the bench in 35 minutes.
The Wildcats return to action Saturday at 4 p.m. for the start of a home-and-home series with Lamar. The Cardinals face the Wildcats in Abilene Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.
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Nicholls 56, New Orleans 40
THIBODAUX, La. – It was not the prettiest display of basketball put on by the Colonels, but Emani White and Jenny Nash scored 12 points each to lead the Nicholls State University women’s basketball team to a 56-40 victory over New Orleans on Thursday night at Stopher Gym.
The duo, who is looking to become the 12th and 13th players in program history to reach 1,000 points, came through with buckets when needed, including a four 3-pointer day by Nash. The senior from Houston needed 19 points to reach the plateau, and she will head into Saturday’s home game with 993 career points. White, who scored in double figures for the first time since returning from an injury, is right behind at 971.
Nicholls (9-10, 5-3 SLC) shot just 37 percent from the field, but the defense helped force 25 turnovers by New Orleans (2-15, 0-8 SLC), which made only 13-of-50 from the field. The Colonels recorded 16 steals in the win, led by Nash with five. Nash also collected a team-high six rebounds and added three assists.
The Colonels took a 28-20 into the break after both teams failed to score over a six-minute stretch in the early going. With the game tied at 6-6, neither team could make a bucket until Marina Lilly, who had six points and two blocks off the bench for the Colonels, broke the tie at the 10:30 mark with a field goal inside. It wasn’t until the 3:40 mark that Nicholls would grab a double-digit advantage following a basket-and-one by White, putting the count at 21-11.
After the break, UNO trimmed the lead to six, but Nash drained a 3-pointer to spark a 7-0 run. From then on, the game was never in doubt as the Colonels led by as much as 20 before going on to improve their home record to 5-2 on the season.
Nicholls will go for its third consecutive victory as the Colonels host UIW on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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