Ladies Continue Homestand With Matchup Versus Texas Lutheran on Friday
The Centenary women's basketball team is set for another pair of tests in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play this weekend at home beginning with a matchup versus the Texas Lutheran University Bulldogs on Friday set for 7:30 p.m. inside the Gold Dome.
Shreveport - The Centenary women's basketball team is set for another pair of tests in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play this weekend at home beginning with a matchup versus the Texas Lutheran University Bulldogs on Friday set for 7:30 p.m. inside the Gold Dome.
Live stats and live video are available for the game at the links below:
Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2023-24/boxscores/20240105_xr7g.xml
Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZV0EEPjBAOA?si=8rFU7G8u_iY3yONi
The Ladies (1-11, 0-4 SCAC) will finish the weekend with another league contest against on Sunday against Southwestern University at 2 p.m. Texas Lutheran enters Friday's action at 11-3 overall and 4-1 in SCAC play and have won three games in a row.
Centenary hung tough with the Colorado College Tigers in a close first-half battle before falling short to the visiting Tigers by a score of 72-46 on Sunday at home in its last appearance. Centenary was back in action for the first time since an 88-67 loss at Louisiana Christian on Dec. 19 in Pineville.
Sophomore G Amiyah Barrow (Baton Rouge, La.) led the Ladies in scoring versus Colorado College with 18 points and she was joined in double figures by sophomore G TaNyjah Plumber (Kinder, La.) who scored 10. Barrow, the fifth-leading scorer in the conference, played all 40 minutes for the fifth time this season and was 5-9 from the floor and 8-10 from the FT line with five rebounds, four steals and two assists. She has reached double figures 10 times this season and done so eight-straight times. She is also tied for eighth in the league in assists, averaging 2.6/game.
Plumber is second on the team in scoring (9.3 PPG) and sophomore F Kyra Stokes (Shreveport, La.) and sophomore F Layla Powell (Fort Worth, Texas) are tied for third at 7.0 PPG. Freshman G Mallory Dougharty (Evadale, Texas) added eight points in 29 minutes off the bench against Colorado College as she was 3-6 from the floor, 1-4 from beyond the arc, and 1-1 at the FT line with three rebounds and a pair of assists. She is averaging 4.7 PPG this season.
The Bulldogs, 3-1 on the road this season, average 69.3 PPG and shoot 39.4 % from the floor. TLU shoots 67.1 % from the free throw line, 29.4 % from beyond the arc, and averages 41.9 rebounds per game and 18.1 assists/game. Junior G Kailey Mulkey is the Bulldogs' leading scorer (11.3/game) and sophomore G Lauren Sansano (10.8/game) is second. Mulkey and sophomore F Brianna Wilson share the team lead in rebounding (6.4/game).
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2023-24/schedule
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