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Shooting Prowess Carries
ETBU Past Schreiner,
78-68
Photo: Monica
Enriquez converts one of
her 11 made free throws
against ETBU.
With the game on the
line, visiting East
Texas Baptist made 11
straight free throws to
preserve a 78-68 road
win at Schreiner.
The Mountaineers were
unable to find similar
success from the same
charity stripe down the
stretch and that was a
telling factor in the
outcome of the game.
SU started slowly and
quickly found itself
down 10, 18-8, just
seven minutes into the
game. The Tigers
(3-5, 3-3 in ASC) were
on fire from long range
and that helped create
the early margin.
The lead widened before
senior Monica Enriquez
(21 points, 6 rebounds,
6 steals) and freshman
LaTisha Hall went to
work and got the lead
back to 8 points at
28-20. ETBU
maintained that
differential (41-33) at
halftime, despite SU
having only one assist
in the opening half and
shooting only 29% from
the field.
In the second half, SU
found some additional
offense and rebounding
from senior Xandria
White (11 points, 8
boards). While the
teams kept going back
and forth for the first
15 minutes, SU wasn't
able to pull even, but
ETBU couldn't pull away
either. White made
a short jumper and was
fouled with 6:10
remaining.
Although she couldn't
convert the free throw,
she got the back back
shortly after and made
another layup and again
was fouled. This
time, she made the free
throw and SU was only
down 65-61. That's
where the free throw
prowess of the Tigers
took over. While
ETBU was stringing 11
straight FT's together,
SU only managed 2-7 from
the line.
For the game, only
Enriquez made more than
50% of their shots from
the free throw line for
SU. She was
11-for-12 from the
stripe, but her
teammates converted just
9-for-27 (33%) of their
free shots for the game.
Freshman Lia Phillips
had eight points and
seven rebounds but ETBU
slowly pull away in the
closing moments.
For the second straight
game, Schreiner did keep
its turnovers down and
had two less than the
visitors. For the
game, the Mountaineers
had six assists.
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