Women's Basketball Selected as "Team of the Week"
The Centenary women's basketball team has been selected as Centenary Athletics' "Team of the Week" after the Ladies edged the Concordia University Tornados 63-62 last Friday in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contest inside the Gold Dome.
Shreveport - The Centenary women's basketball team has been selected as Centenary Athletics' "Team of the Week" after the Ladies edged the Concordia University Tornados 63-62 last Friday in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contest inside the Gold Dome.
The Ladies (3-13, 2-5 SCAC) snapped their eight-game losing streak with Friday's win over the Tornados (5-11, 2-5 SCAC) and won their first home game of the season to improve to 1-5 while Concordia dropped to 1-5 on the road.
Concordia led 23-19 after the first quarter but a 17-13 advantage in the second by the Ladies sent the teams to the locker room tied at 36-36 at halftime. Centenary then edged the Tornados 15-14 in the third and each team scored 12 points in the final period.
Both teams shot the ball as the Ladies finished 22-55 (40.0 %) from the floor and the Tornados were 25-58 for 41.4 %. Centenary went 7-16 (43.8 %) from beyond the arc and 12-16 at the free-throw line.
Senior G Amiyah Barrow (Baton Rouge, La.) led all scorers with a season-high 20 points as she played 34 minutes and finished 8-10 from the floor, 2-2 from beyond the arc, and 2-2 at the FT line. Barrow added three assists, three rebounds, and one assist. Barrow scored in double figures for the eighth time this season and for the fifth time in seven games.
Junior F Natalya Senat (Killeen, Texas) had the best game of her career with an impressive double-double that featured career highs in both points (10) and rebounds (14). She played 26 minutes and finished 4-8 from the floor and 2-2 at the FT line with two steals and one assist.
Sophomore G Julissa Cabrera (Denham Springs, La.) matched her season high with 10 points as she was 3-4 at the FT line in 28 minutes with a trey, two assists, and two steals. Senior G Savannah Stowers (Waller, Texas) scored eight in 25 minutes off the bench with three rebounds, two steals, and an assist. Senior F Layla Powell (Fort Worth, Texas) also scored eight points as she went 2-5 from the floor, 2-4 from beyond the arc, and 2-4 at the FT line in 24 minutes with two rebounds.
Senior F Kyra Stokes (Shreveport, La.) scored five points and grabbed six rebounds in 27 minutes with three assists and was 3-4 at the FT line and freshman F Emily Cortez (Thibodaux, La.) played seven minutes and had two points. Sophomore G Madison Fontenot (Mamou, La.) came off the bench and played a very important 17 minutes and finished with five rebounds, an assist, and a steal.
The fourth quarter was low scoring but did not lack drama. Katelyn Tietjen scored the first points of the quarter at the 8:35 mark to give the Tornados a 52-51 lead and then two free throws by Barrow allowed the Ladies to regain the lead at 53-52 with eight minutes left. Two-straight baskets by Concordia made it 56-53 but Barrow drained a 3-pointer to tie the game at 56-56 at the 4:29 mark.
Shanna Brown then sank a pair of free throws and followed those with a basket to make it 60-56 Concordia with 3:06 remaining. Following a Centenary timeout, Barrow continued her hot shooting as she connected on a jumper at the 2:30 mark to make it 60-58 and tied the game at 60-60 on another basket just 21 seconds later. Taysie Trejo's basket with 2:06 remaining gave the Tornados a 62-60 lead, but that would be their final lead and final points of the game.
Cabrera was fouled with 1:15 left and went 1-2 at the FT line to make it 62-61. Trejo then turned the ball over on Concordia's next possession as Cabrera stole the ball and made a layup with only 44 seconds remaining to give the Ladies a 63-62 lead. Brown then turned the ball over but Trejo stole it right back from Cabrera with just 19 seconds left as Concordia called a timeout. The final seconds were a frenzied situation for both teams as Trejo missed a layup that was rebounded by Brown who then missed a short attempt herself that was rebounded by Trejo and then Brown's last-gasp jumper was no good as the Ladies escaped with the thrilling victory.
The Ladies will return to action this weekend at home versus Austin College and the University of Dallas, facing the 'Roos on Friday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 PM and the Crusaders on Saturday at 6 PM.
For more information or to donate to Centenary athletics and the women's basketball program, visit gocentenary.com/gocentenary/C_Club.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2025-26/schedule
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