Irving, Texas – The Centenary women's basketball team opens Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play on Wednesday as the Ladies face the University of Dallas Crusaders at 7:30 p.m. at the Maher Center.
Live stats and live video are available for the contest at the links below:
Stats: https://dallas.prestosports.com/sports/wbkb/2021-22/boxscores/20211208_zdn8.xml
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL1LOVCljQw&list=PLewq2uupOTb2ZcCQjnhqADU9XEiOU633j&index=9
The Ladies (2-6) are fresh off an 89-82 win over the Birmingham-Southern College Panthers on Saturday in Birmingham, Ala. Dallas (2-5) snapped a four-game losing streak with a 60-47 home win over Millsaps on Friday. Centenary was picked to finish ninth in the SCAC preseason poll while Dallas was predicted to finish seventh.
Centenary snapped its six-game losing streak and won on the road for the first time since a 64-55 win at Dallas on Feb. 5, 2019. The Ladies got off to a slow start offensively but found their footing and eventually took a 54-38 lead at halftime, shooting over 52 % in both the first and second quarter. Centenary connected on 9-17 attempts in the first quarter (52.9%) and 11-21 in the second quarter (52.4 %). The Maroon and White were hot from beyond the arc early, making 4-5 attempts in the first 10 minutes and made 1-2 in the second quarter.
Junior Destini Powell (Minden, La.) poured in a career-high 33 points to lead the Ladies as she made 11-26 shot attempts overall in 39 minutes and was 3-8 from three-point range. Powell also made 8-11 from the free throw line and grabbed a game-high 16 rebounds. The 33 points is the most scored by a Ladies player in a single game in the division III era (2012-present) and is tied for the third-most points in a single game in program history and is the most points scored by a Centenary player in 17 years. Penny Brill scored 33 on Feb. 16, 1984 and Laura Kizyte did so on Nov. 19, 2004.
Powell's previous career high in points was 26 which she accomplished twice. She did so as a freshman on Feb. 8, 2020 at Texas Lutheran and last weekend at Ozarks in a 79-58 loss on Nov. 27. Saturday marked Powell's first double-double of the season and the third time she has reached double figures. Powell was named the SCAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Monday, earning the honor for the first time in her career.
Sophomore guard Addy Tremie (Sulphur, La.) also had a fantastic game as she scored 20 in 37 minutes on 7-14 shooting. She was 3-5 from beyond the arc and 3-3 from the free throw line with 11 rebounds. She reached double figures for the fifth time this season and recorded her first double-double of the season.
Junior F Jazzmyn Jones (Normangee, Texas) joined Powell and Tremie in double figures as she added 14 in 23 minutes and grabbed six rebounds. She was 4-6 overall from the floor, made six free throws, and tallied one assist.
Freshman G Dymon Drumgo (Alexandria, La.) scored six points in 26 minutes, making 3-8 shots overall and grabbed six rebounds. Drumgo added two steals and one assist.
Junior F Amelia Bagwell (West Monroe, La.), freshman G Mary Leday (Opelousas, La.), senior G Jennae Mayberry (Clovis, Calif.), and freshman F Katelyn Simon (Lafayette, La.) each scored four points. Bagwell played just 12 minutes but grabbed eight rebounds on 2-5 shooting overall. She had a pair of assists and a steal.
Leday added three rebounds and two assists along with her four points in 22 minutes on 2-5 shooting. Mayberry played 34 minutes and collected eight rebounds with two assists and two steals. Simon played six minutes and was 2-2 overall and grabbed one rebound.
The Ladies shot 45.2 % for the game, their best shooting percentage in a game this season, and went 6-13 (46.2 %) from beyond the arc. Centenary's only offensive struggles came at the free throw line where the Maroon and White went just 17-27.
Centenary had a massive advantage on the boards, grabbing a season-high 64 to just 44 for the Panthers. Six Ladies grabbed at least six rebounds with 42 coming on the defensive end and 22 on the offensive end. The Ladies finished with a 38-34 edge in points in the paint and each team wound up with 17 second-chance points.
Tremie and Jones are currently tied for fifth and eighth respectively in the SCAC in scoring as Tremie is averaging 12.6 PPG while Jones is at 12.4. Mayberry currently ranks in a tie for 8th in the SCAC in assists (2.3/game)
A link to the Ladies' complete 2021-22 schedule can be found here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2021-22/schedule
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