Tuesday, January 15, 2013

FAYETTEVILLE STATE STROLLS PAST BOWIE STATE LADY BULLDOGS 70-59


FAYETTEVILLE STATE STROLLS PAST BOWIE STATE LADY BULLDOGS 70-59


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – The CIAA Southern Division leading Lady Broncos of Fayetteville State University strolled to a relatively easy 70-59 victory over Bowie State University. The win keeps the Lady Broncos unbeaten in the conference at 6-0 and improved their overall record to 14-2. Bowie State’s record dips to 1-5 in the CIAA and 4-10 overall.

Leading the way for the Lady Bulldogs was sophomore Channell Mackey (Clinton, Md.) with 10 points and the junior duo of Kammera Johnson (Germantown, Md.) and Brooke Miles (Upper Marlboro, Md.) tallied nine points each in the loss. Freshman Sandra Davis (Bronx, N.Y.) recorded a season-high eight points and a season and team-high eight rebounds. Senior Jasmine Jacobs (Baltimore, Md.) handed out a career-high seven assists to go along with seven rebounds.

Fayetteville State opened the game with 5-0 shutout before Bowie State was able to put their first points on the Capel Arena scoreboard. The Lady Bulldogs trimmed the Lady Bulldogs lead to 9-7 by the 16:01 mark.

The Lady Broncos used a 12-0 run to give the home team some breathing room at 21-7 before a layup by Bowie State junior Moriah Goodman (Baltimore, Md.) with 10:07 remaining in the first half stopped the run.

A layup by BSU junior Alessandra Flores Conway (Hagerstown, Md.) and 3-pointer by Miles knocked the Fayetteville State lead down to nine, but the Lady Broncos pushed the advantage back up to double digits and led 39-21 at intermission.

BSU’s Lady Bulldogs managed only 8-of-28 first half field goals and were led by Mackey and Flores Conway with five points each in the opening stanza.

The Lady Broncos shot 13-of-27 from the field in the first half (48.1 percent) and converted 12-of-15 (80 percent) from the free throw line.

BSU’s Miles began the second half with a triple only to have Fayetteville State explode on a 16-4 run to break the game wide open at 55-28 by the 11:18 mark. Besides the bucket by Miles to start period two, the only other offense during that stretch provided by the Lady Bulldogs came from layups by Jacobs and Davis.

Bowie State improved their second half shooting to 43.8 percent (14-of-32), which included 5-of-7 beyond the arc.  The Bulldogs were 7-of-17 from behind the 3-point line for the game and 22-of-60 (36.7 percent) overall from the field.

The Lady Broncos ended the evening with a 41.1 field goal shooting percentage (23-of-56) and knocked down 21-of-26 (80.8 percent) free throws.

Leading the charge for FSU’s Lady Broncos was Kristen Hanzer with a double-double of 20 points and 13 rebounds. Hanzer made 10-of-11 free throws and dished out a game-high five assists. Shaunda Ashford tied for team-high scoring honors with 20 points and DaQuondra Cuthbertson grabbed 10 rebounds.

Bowie State returns home after this three-game road trip to host Lincoln University of Pennsylvania on Saturday (January 19th) at 1 pm in the A.C. Jordan Arena.

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