Shreveport. – The Centenary women's basketball team fell 65-50 to the Schreiner Mountaineers on Friday in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contest at the Gold Dome.
The Ladies (1-18, 1-11 SCAC) will complete the weekend with another home conference game on Sunday against the Trinity Tigers set for 3 p.m. Live stats and live video will be available via www.gocentenary.com. Schreiner evened its overall record to 9-9 and improved to 7-4 in SCAC play with the victory.
Freshman forward Amelia Bagwell (West Monroe, La.) scored a career-high 14 points in just 15 minutes off of the bench to lead the Ladies in scoring on Friday, marking the first time she scored in double figures this season. Bagwell made seven of her shots from the field and grabbed four rebounds. Junior forward Bre Frierson (Shreveport) returned to the court after missing the Ladies' last two games and scored 11 points in 21 minutes off of the bench. Frierson, who reached double figures for the 12th time this season, entered the game averaging a team-best 13.5 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game which both rank in the top 10 in the SCAC. She also ranks in the top 10 in the SCAC in field goal percentage, blocked shots, and offensive rebounds.
Senior forward Deunya Small (Shreveport), junior guard Darelzray Bellard (Mamou, La.), and junior guard Jennae Mayberry (Clovis, Calif.) combined to score 17 points 17 rebounds, eight assists, three steals, and one block. Small entered the game second in the conference in defensive rebounds as she averaged 5.9 per game and ranked fourth overall in rebounds with 7.7 per game. She was also seventh in blocked shots and ranked in the top 15 in assists. Small had a team-high11 rebounds on Friday and collected double-digit rebounds for the eighth time this season and for the fourth game in a row and has 46 rebounds in those four games.
Centenary outrebounded the Mountaineers, 39-34, continuing a positive trend as the Ladies are one of the top offensive rebounding teams in the conference, averaging 40.6 per game entering Friday's game which was third best in the SCAC. Schreiner had three players in double figures led by Zahra Cross's 18. Sydney Williams added 13 and Miranda Vallejo scored 10 off of the bench.
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