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Appalachian State 64, Winthrop 47
ROCK HILL, S.C. ? Sophomore Whitney Tossie (Oviedo, Fla.) recorded a career-high nine steals and the Appalachian State University women’s basketball team came one steal short of a team record with 21, as the Mountaineers defeated Winthrop University, 64-47, Wednesday afternoon at the Winthrop Coliseum.
The Mountaineers pick up their first win of the season, moving to an even 1-1, while the Lady Eagles drop to 0-3 overall. ASU compiled its most steals since tying a school record with 22 against Winthrop Dec. 2, 1995.
Free throw shooting was key for Appalachian as it went 23-of-25 at the charity stripe (.920), while Winthrop shot just four free throws, making all of them.
Adding to her nine steals, Tossie tied career highs with 19 points and six rebounds. The guard played 34 minutes for the Mountaineers and finished 9-of-11 from the charity stripe and a perfect 2-for-2 from beyond the three point arc. Tossie added five assists and a block in her effort.
Three others scored in double-digits for Appalachian, as senior Eboni Kirby (Tallahassee, Fla.) put up 13 and classmates Kiki Conyers (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Jocelyn Wyatt (Lawrenceville, Ga.) each added 10 points. All three of those seniors finished a perfect 4-for-4 from the free throw line.
Winthrop was led by Tiffany Rodd and Ashley Fann with 15 and 10 points, respectively. Jessica Dukes compiled a team-high six rebounds for the Lady Eagles.
Freshman Whitney Ketner (Spartanburg, S.C.) added a career-high eight points for ASU.
The two teams came out of the locker rooms at halftime with ASU leading, 25-17. The Mountaineers quickly extending their lead to 10, at 35-25 with 16:20 remaining in the game. Winthrop wasn’t going to back down as the Eagles scored five unanswered points to pull within five with 14:43 to play.
Tossie broke the Eagles’ momentum with a steal and lay up to extend the lead to 37-30 with 13:39 left. With the score at 40-32 with 11:54 on the clock, ASU pulled away, outscoring Winthrop, 22-5 in the next nine minutes. The Lady Eagles added eight points in the final two and a half minutes, as Appalachian went on to defeat Winthrop, 64-47.
Appalachian scored the first nine points of the game, extending its lead to as much as 13 at 23-10 with 4:18 remaining in the first half.
Wyatt scored eight and Kirby added five in the first half, as ASU went into halftime with a 25-17 lead. Conyers added four in the first, while Tossie chipped in two points, three assists and four steals in the opening 20 minutes.
The Mountaineers remain on the road as they head to Atlanta, Ga., to take on ACC powerhouse, Georgia Tech, Sunday at 2 p.m. at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
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Furman 74, Alaska-Anchorage 54
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The University of Alaska-Anchorage opened Wednesday's consolation game at the Great Alaska Shootout with a 14-7 run, but Furman answered with a 17-0 drive that put the Lady Paladin advantage at 10 with 6:32 left in the first half, and set the stage for a 74-54 victory over the Seawolves.
"Our press only works on missed shots by our opponent and there weren't a lot of those by the UAA in the first few minutes," said coach Sam Dixon after the win that put Furman at 2-1 on the year. "Once we got it going we went on a run and followed our gameplan, which involved keeping it out of No. 54's (Rebecca Kielpinski) hands and contesting every three."
The Seawolves connected on just six-of-23 treys for the game, with three made in the first period and three in the second. Kielpinski ended the game with a UAA-best 15 points and nine rebounds, while guard Mari Riser added 11 points and five assists to the effort.
The Lady Paladins used that first-half run to establish a quick tempo for the game and led the Seawolves 39-24 at the break. In the first half, the Lady Paladins also dominated the boards 24-8, and outscored UAA 12-3 on second-chance points and 10-6 in points in the paint.
Furman won the second half 35-30 to earn the 20-point victory. Tommi Paris poured in a Furman-best 14 on the night while Chrissy Phelps and Melynda Gant each added 11. Gant also paced the Lady Paladins to a 39-25 advantage on the boards, claiming eight of her own, while Megan Scott and Katie Johnson each totaled six. As a team, the Lady Paladins were 21-for-23 (91.3%) from the line and connected on 47.1% (24-for-51) of their field goal attempts.
Furman's win over UAA comes on the heels of a 33-point loss to Arizona on Tuesday. Point guard Tommi Paris, who saw limited minutes in the opening game due to a head cold, expressed the team's relief in gaining the victory. "No words can descibe how important this win was to us. We wanted to redeem ourselves because we were not happy about the way we played last night. The nice thing about basketball is that you can come back 24 hours later and redeem yourself, and that is what we did."
With the loss the UAA Seawolves fell to 2-2 overall while Furman moved to 2-1 on the year. The Lady Paladins will host intrstate rival Clemson on Wednesday, Nov. 30, in a 7 p.m. game at Timmons Arena.
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Wofford 86, Southern Virginia 45
Senior Nakia Mister tied her career-high scoring output with 20 points to lead all players and lead the Wofford women's basketball team to an 86-45 victory over Southern Virginia Wednesday afternoon in the Benjamin Johnson Arena.
Mister finished with a 10-of-16 effort from the field to match the total she scored as a freshman versus East Tennessee State January 27, 2003. She added season-highs of six rebounds and three steals.
The Terrier victory was the second in as many games for Wofford over Southern Virginia as the Terriers handed the Lady Knights an 86-47 loss Nov. 24, 2004 in Spartanburg.
After Lynette Adams put Southern Virginia on the board first with a layup at the 19:26 mark, Wofford responded with six straight points as part of a 25-6 run over the next 10 minutes to put the game out of reach. The Terriers continued to pour in the points, mostly on layups, and held a 47-15 advantage at the break.
Back-to-back 3-pointers from juniors K.C. Correll and Mary Jo Yee opened the second half and provided a 53-15 Wofford (2-1) lead. The Lady Knights then scored the next nine points, including five from Adams, to cut the deficit to 29 at 53-24 with 13:53 to play. It would be the closest the visitors would get the rest of the game.
Over a two-and-a-half minute stretch, from 13:24 to 10:52, Mister scored six consecutive points for the Terriers before freshman Laura Depko took over. Depko finished with a career-high 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting and 4-of-4 from the foul line.
Fellow rookie Summer Nichols garnered 13 points, while the team's leading scorer, Kelsi Koenig was held to 10.
Junior Jenny Weurding finished with a game-high eight rebounds and four blocks. With her four blocks, she moved into third place on the Terriers' all-time blocked shots list with 122 surpassing the 121 accumulated by Anita Cooper (1993-97). She also jumps into eighth place on the career Southern Conference chart overtaking Davidson's Courtney Laird (2000-04). Weurding also made her only 3-point attempt, the first trey of her career.
Freshman point guard Liz Miller added a career-high seven points and dished out a game-best seven assists with just one turnover.
Adams paced Southern Virginia (4-2) with 19 points on 8-of-19, including a 3-of-8 effort from behind the 3-point arc. She tied Chelsea Lund with a team-high six rebounds.
Wofford forced 33 turnovers and held a 23-to-2 steal edge over the Lady Knights.
The Terriers will return home following Thanksgiving to host North Carolina A&T at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Benjamin Johnson Arena. Southern Virginia plays at Coastal Carolina Friday in Conway, S.C.
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Georgia Tech 66, College of Charleston 50
Junior Stephanie Higgs scored a game-high 17 points and sophomore Janie Mitchell recorded her second career double-double to lead Georgia Tech (3-0) to a 66-50 victory over College of Charleston (1-2) Wednesday at Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, Ga.
Higgs and Mitchell joined sophomore point guard Jill Ingram in double-figures in the scoring column, as Mitchell scored 14 and pulled down 10 rebounds while Ingram added 13 points, three steals and two assists for the Yellow Jackets.
Tech shot over 80 percent from the free-throw line, converting on 21-of-26 from the charity stripe, while the Cougars were limited to just seven free throws on 11 attempts.
The Jackets scored 14 second-chance points, pulling down 15 offensive rebounds, while limiting the Cougars to just two points and five offensive boards. Overall, Tech recorded 21 more rebounds than the Cougars, outrebounding the College of Charleston, 46-25.
Senior Jessica Williams led all players on the boards on the night, pulling down 11 rebounds while scoring four points in 23 minutes off the bench.
Tech carried a 14-point lead into the locker room at halftime, scoring 15 of its 31 points off 12 Cougar turnovers in the frame. Tech also converted on 12-of-15 from the charity stripe while limiting the Cougars to just four free-throw attempts in the first 20 minutes of the game. Janie Mitchell led all scorers with 10 points in the half, while senior Jessica Williams came off the bench to record six rebounds for the Yellow Jackets.
College of Charleston was led by Melissa Chambers, who hit seven field goals, scoring 15 points, and Marketta Talley, who added 11 points and four assists. Erica Irick pulled down six rebounds to pace the team.
The Yellow Jackets will return to action Sunday when they host Appalachian State at 2:00 PM. The Cougars return home Dec. 3rd for a 2:00 PM tip-off.