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Davidson 69, UNC Greensboro 57
GREENSBORO, NC ? Jessica Mitchell and Danielle Hemerka combined for 33 points in leading Davidson to a 69-57 victory over UNC Greensboro in Southern Conference women’s basketball action Monday afternoon at Fleming Gym.
UNCG (4-4, 0-1 SoCon) junior guard Jasmine Byrd scored a season-high 16 points, while junior forward Kaleah Latham added 13 points on 4-of-6 shooting. Sophomore guard Kristen Boone scored all 10 of her points after intermission.
Mitchell scored a game-high 17 points, while Hemerka tossed in 16 points. Honna Housley scored 12 points.
UNCG suffered through its second straight poor shooting performance, but this time the Spartans were unable to over come it. After beating Wake Forest 70-64 last Wednesday by shooting 33.3 percent from the field, UNCG drained only 32.7 percent of its shots against the Wildcats. By comparison, Davidson hit on 43.8 percent of its shots.
Davidson (3-6, 1-1 SoCon) used a key 12-3 second half run that increased its slim one point, 42-41, lead to a comfortable 54-44 advantage with 5:31 left in the game. Hemerka fueled the run with seven points. UNCG never got any closer than five points the rest of the way as the Spartans dropped their fourth straight SoCon opener.
Byrd quickly erased UNCG’s five-point halftime deficit by draining three treys in the opening five minutes of the second half to knot the score at 35-35, but Kelly Gassie’s conventional 3-point play put Davidson back up for good, 38-35.
Early in the first half, Latham scored six straight points to give UNCG its only lead of the game, 8-6, but Davidson answered with a 9-0 run to extend its lead back to five points, 13-8, at the 12:17 mark. The Wildcats maintained their lead for the remainder of the stanza and would extend their lead to 27-18 on a 3-pointer by Housley with 4:11 left until halftime. Davidson went into the break with a 31-26 lead.
Latham scored 10 points and the Spartans canned all 11 of their free throws to off set their 29.2 percent (7-for-24) shooting clip from the floor in the opening 20 minutes of play. Hemerka paced the Wildcats with eight points.
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High Point 89, Western Carolina 87
HIGH POINT, NC - Despite four players in double figures, including a season-high 20 points from senior Teyawna Hardy, Western Carolina faltered on the road, falling to the High Point Panthers, 89-87, Monday night in non-conference action at the Millis Center.
The loss was Western's eighth-consecutive to start the season and its fourth by three points or less this year.
The four Lady Catamounts in double figures were led by Hardy with a season-high 20 points off the bench. The Ellenboro, N.C., shot 6-of-11 from the floor with a 5-of-6 showing from the free throw line, adding nine rebounds, three of which were on the offensive end.
Sophomore guard Chevon Keith added a dozen in the loss, also boarding right at her seasonal average with nine. Her classmate, Monique Dawson, scored 11 including a 6-for-7 showing from the free throw line, with freshman Lauren Powell notching her sixth double-digit scoring output with 10, while Teshymia Tillman, playing in her hometown of High Point, scored nine and dished out a career-best four assists.
Five minutes into the second half, Western cut the High Point advantage to one point, 47-46 on an Amelia Miller lay-up. Yet a 13-3, 10-point spurt by the Panthers pushed the advantage to double-digits at 11, 60-49. The Lady Cats would not go away, however, clawing back into the ball game with a 14-4 run of their own to again close the deficit to one, 64-63. It was as close as Western would get until the closing seconds of the game when Keith drained a 3-pointer with two seconds showing.
The Panthers, who entered the game shooting 66-percent from the free throw line as a team, hit right at their average over the final two minutes to seal the win despite outscored 15-8 over the final two minutes of the game.
High Point (6-3) was led by the double-double performance of senior Katie O'Dell, who scored 21 points and boarded 10 in the win. Junior Candyce Sellars scored 12 of her 15 in the second half, including a pair of treys, while Raven Truslow scored 13 to round out the Panthers' double-figure tallies.
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Appalachian State 66, Elon 63, OT
BOONE, NC - Appalachian State University women's basketball fought back from a 15-point deficit midway through the second half to notch a 66-63 overtime victory over Elon on Monday night at the Holmes Center. With the win, Appalachian moved to 2-0 in Southern Conference play this season.
With just 18 seconds remaining in regulation and the Mountaineers down by three, senior Kiki Conyers (Tallahassee, Fla.) hit a clutch three-pointer from the right side of the arc to tie the game at 57. Elon missed its final shot and Conyers came up with the rebound to send the game into overtime.
The Mountaineers faced another deficit late in overtime. Down by one at 63-62 with 16 seconds remaining, junior Danielle Edwards (Winston-Salem, N.C.) hit a layup to give ASU a 64-63 lead. Whitney Tossie (Oviedo, Fla.) stole the ball on Elon’s next possession and Greteya Kelley (Suwanee, Ga.) hit two free throws to give Appalachian a 66-63 victory in overtime.
Edwards paced the Mountaineers as she tied her career-high with 17 points and tallied her fourth double-digit scoring game in just five games this season. The junior also tied a game-high with eight rebounds and added three steals.
The win marked the Mountaineers’ third-straight victory moving them to 4-4 overall and 2-0 in the SoCon. With the loss Elon drops to 3-6 on the season and 0-2 in league play.
Kelley was one point shy of her career high with 16 points on the night. The freshman added three steals and four rebounds. Tossie, a sophomore, also scored in double-digits for the Mountaineers, putting up 11 points. The Southern Conference’s steal leader added a game-high four steals and five assists.
Three Phoenix players scored in double-digits as well, led by 16 points from sophomore Kitara McMoore. McMoore also tied a game-high with eight rebounds and dished out six assists.
Junior Nikko King added 13 points and eight rebounds for Elon, while classmate Myra Donkin chipped in 10 points.
The Mountaineers were solid on the defensive end, grabbing 15 steals, compared to just three by Elon. Appalachian also committed a season-low 15 turnovers and out-rebounded its opponent for just the third time this season with 40 boards.
The Mountaineers trailed by nine at 32-23 coming out of the locker room at halftime. The Phoenix built on its lead, reaching a 15-point advantage at 51-36 with 11:07 to play in the game. Down 55-41 with just over nine minutes to play, Appalachian went on a 13-0 run to pull within one at 55-54 with two minutes to play.
Elon scored just two points in the final nine minutes of the game, while Appalachian used its 16 points in that time period to tie the game in the final seconds and force overtime.
The Phoenix jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead following the tip-off, taking advantage of the Mountaineers’ poor shooting to lead by as many as 13 in the half. Nicole Allison hit a jumper at the buzzer to give the visitors a 32-23 lead heading into halftime.