Ladies To Face Trinity In SCAC Opener On Friday
The Centenary women's basketball team will open Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play this weekend at home, beginning with a matchup with the Trinity University Tigers on Friday at 5:30 PM at the Gold Dome.
Shreveport– The Centenary women's basketball team will open Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play this weekend at home, beginning with a matchup with the Trinity University Tigers on Friday at 5:30 PM at the Gold Dome.
Live stats and live video are available for the game at the links below:
Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2022-23/boxscores/20221202_jxcg.xml
Video: https://collegetvticket.com/event/centenary-college-vs-trinity-university-9/
The Ladies (0-9) fell 86-40 to the Wiley College Lady Wildcats on Tuesday evening in a non-conference contest in Marshall, Texas. Trinity (7-0) defeated LeTourneau at home 93-55 on Sunday in its most recent game.
Trinity was chosen as the preseason based on balloting from the league's head coaches. The Tigers earned their second-straight conference championship a year ago by defeating Colorado College, 50-45, in the title game. Centenary was chosen ninth in the preseason poll.
Freshman G Amiyah Barrow (Baton Rouge, La.) led the Ladies with 10 points and was the only Centenary player to reach double figures. Barrow, who scored a season-high 16 points in Sunday's 102-101 loss to Birmingham-Southern College, recorded her third double-digit scoring game of the season. Senior F Amelia Bagwell (West Monroe, La.) scored seven points and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds with an assist and a blocked shot.
Barrow was 3-7 from the floor in 21 minutes and finished 4-6 at the free throw line. She recorded five rebounds and had one assist. Bagwell was 3-6 from the floor in 24 minutes and was 1-2 from the free throw line. Sophomore G Alana Jones (Shreveport, La.) added five points and five rebounds in only 16 minutes. She was 2-2 from the free throw line with a blocked shot and a steal.
Freshman G Brailey Major (Opelousas, La.) scored four points and grabbed six rebounds in 33 minutes on 2-8 shooting with three assists and two steals. Freshman G Madison Davis (Shreveport, La.) also scored four and had two steals in 25 minutes and was 2-4 from the free throw line. Freshman G Keyonna Armelin (New Iberia, La.) came off the bench and played 12 minutes and scored four points and had two assists and one rebound.
Senior G Patience Bates (Houston, Texas) scored a season-best four points with five rebounds in 18 minutes on 2-5 shooting with one assist. Freshman G Olivia Sepulvado (Zwolle, La.) scored two points and grabbed four rebounds in 31 minutes with two steals, an assist, and one blocked shot.
The Ladies were making their first visit to Marshall since Feb. 13, 1984 and lost to Wiley for the second time this season after falling at home by a score of 84-75 on Nov. 17. On Sunday, Centenary was edged in a thriller, 102-101, by the Birmingham-Southern College Panthers in the Millsaps College Thanksgiving Classic in Jackson, Miss. The Ladies were led by a career-high 33 points from Bagwell, which is tied for the third-most in a single game in program history.
Bagwell grabbed 16 rebounds and was 13-23 from the floor in 35 minutes. She added a pair of assists, went 7-10 from the free throw line, and recorded her second double-double this season. Her 13 field goals made are tied for the second-most in a single game in program history and her 21 attempts are tied for the number eight all-time record.
The 101 points are the most that the Ladies have ever scored in a loss, as the previous program record was 86 against Stephen F. Austin on Dec. 17, 2005. The 203 combined points also broke the previous record of 181 done twice before and most recently in that 95-86 loss to SFA in 2005.
Alana Jones is the team lead in scoring and rebounding, averaging a team-best 9.6 PPG and 9.7 rebounds per game. She has reached double figures four times this season and has a pair of double-doubles. Bagwell is averaging 8.3 PPG and 5.9 rebounds per game and has two double-digit scoring games, both of which were double-doubles. Barrow is averaging 9.3 PPG with four double-digit performances including three in a row. She is averaging 15 PPG over the last three and scored a season-best 19 versus Millsaps on Nov. 26.
Jazzmyn Jones is averaging 9.5 PPG and 8.0 rebounds/game and has reached double figures twice with one double-double. Sophomore G Dymon Drumgo (Alexandria, La.) has been solid this season as she averages 7.6 PPG and 5.6 rebounds/game and has reached double figures twice. Major is averaging 6.1 PPG, has made five starts, and exploded for a season-high 27 points in the loss to Birmingham-Southern. Davis averages 5.4 and has a pair of double-digit scoring performances in four starts. Sepulvado has started two games and averages 4.1 PPG and scored a season-best 10 at Millsaps on Nov. 26 and scored nine the next day in the marathon loss to BSC. Freshman G TaNyjah Plumber (Kinder, La.) has started six games and is averaging 5.1 PPG. She posted a season-high 20 points at Wiley on Nov. 17 and is also averaging 2.7 rebounds/game. Freshman F Kyra Stokes (Shreveport, La.) is averaging 3.0 PPG, made three starts, and shooting 75 % from the free throw line.
A look at Trinity: Trinity moved up one spot to fourth in the latest D3hoops.com poll, while the Tigers held firm at the No. 5 spot in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association rankings for NCAA III. Junior guard Maggie Robbins (Plano, Texas) was selected as the SCAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the second Tiger this season to win the honor. Robbins was also named the United States Basketball Writers Association Division III Player of the Week, which is the first time a Trinity player has won the award.
She broke her career-high in scoring twice last week, capped by 20 points in just 22 minutes of Sunday's win over LeTourneau. Robbins averaged 16.7 points, 6.7 rebounds, 5.0 assists, and 3.3 steals over the past week, hitting 19-of-36 (52.8%) from the floor. The Tigers are also ranked fourth in NCAA III in scoring average at better than 90 points per game. Trinity is second in total points this season as well as ranking second nationally with 21.1 assists per game. The Tigers also rank in the top 10 in both turnovers forced per game and turnover margin. In individual NCAA III rankings, Robbins is ranked fourth in the country in steals and 19th in assists this season.
The Ladies face Schreiner University (3-5) on Sunday at 1 p.m. to wrap up the weekend. The Mountaineers will begin conference play on Friday in Houston versus the University of St. Thomas.
See the Ladies' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2022-23/schedule
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