Castle Jumper Helps Bowie State Lady Bulldogs Escape Felician with 70-68 Victory
RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Junior Ashley Castle (Brooklyn, N.Y.) tied for team-high scoring honors with 14 points, two of which included the game winner with 3.3 seconds left in the game to lead visiting Bowie State to a 70-68 road victory over Felician College at Job Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Bulldogs have now won all three meetings in the history of the two schools.
Bowie State (3-0) led the entire first half and went into halftime with a 41-31 advantage. Castle and graduate student Brooke Miles (Upper Marlboro, Md.) paced the Lady Bulldogs in the first stanza with 10 points each.
The Lady Bulldogs led by as much as 11 points in the first half on the strength of shooting 40.5 percent from the floor while holding the Golden Falcons to a 38.1 shooting percentage.
Felician (1-5) trailed most of the second half until a Gisell Peguero layup tied the game for the first of five times at 58-all with 6:06remaining in the non-conference contest.
Bowie State led by five at 66-61 with 3:26 left before Felician’s Ashley Morris knotted the score at 66 less than a minute later.
A Peguero jumper with 1:16 left to play shifted the advantage back over to the Golden Falcons only to have Bowie State junior Denver Clyde (Glen Burnie, Md.) stick two free throws to tie the game at 68 with just over a minute left in regulation, setting up the dramatic finish.
Miles posted 14 points to go along with a career and game-high 16 rebounds while senior Alessandra Flores Conway and junior Alisha Burley added nine and eight points respectively for the Lady Bulldogs.
Felician’s Peguero led the Golden Falcons with 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting and added a game-high four assists. Jac’Quel Saunders chipped in 14 points and Keisha Jean-Louis tallied nine points in the loss.
Bowie State will travel to Shippensburg University on Sunday, December 1 for a non-conference contest against the Raiders. The Lady Bulldogs then return home for back-to-back games versus Queens (NY) on December 7 at 2 pm and Washington Adventist onDecember 11 at 5 pm before taking time off to celebrate Thanksgiving later in the week.
RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Junior Ashley Castle (Brooklyn, N.Y.) tied for team-high scoring honors with 14 points, two of which included the game winner with 3.3 seconds left in the game to lead visiting Bowie State to a 70-68 road victory over Felician College at Job Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Bulldogs have now won all three meetings in the history of the two schools.
Bowie State (3-0) led the entire first half and went into halftime with a 41-31 advantage. Castle and graduate student Brooke Miles (Upper Marlboro, Md.) paced the Lady Bulldogs in the first stanza with 10 points each.
The Lady Bulldogs led by as much as 11 points in the first half on the strength of shooting 40.5 percent from the floor while holding the Golden Falcons to a 38.1 shooting percentage.
Felician (1-5) trailed most of the second half until a Gisell Peguero layup tied the game for the first of five times at 58-all with 6:06remaining in the non-conference contest.
Bowie State led by five at 66-61 with 3:26 left before Felician’s Ashley Morris knotted the score at 66 less than a minute later.
A Peguero jumper with 1:16 left to play shifted the advantage back over to the Golden Falcons only to have Bowie State junior Denver Clyde (Glen Burnie, Md.) stick two free throws to tie the game at 68 with just over a minute left in regulation, setting up the dramatic finish.
Miles posted 14 points to go along with a career and game-high 16 rebounds while senior Alessandra Flores Conway and junior Alisha Burley added nine and eight points respectively for the Lady Bulldogs.
Felician’s Peguero led the Golden Falcons with 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting and added a game-high four assists. Jac’Quel Saunders chipped in 14 points and Keisha Jean-Louis tallied nine points in the loss.
Bowie State will travel to Shippensburg University on Sunday, December 1 for a non-conference contest against the Raiders. The Lady Bulldogs then return home for back-to-back games versus Queens (NY) on December 7 at 2 pm and Washington Adventist onDecember 11 at 5 pm before taking time off to celebrate Thanksgiving later in the week.
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