Despite double-digit point outings from Ravae Payne, Kristina Kana and Bri-Anna Soliz, the Texas A&M women\u2019s basketball team suffered a first-round elimination at the hands of the West Texas A&M Lady Buffs, 74-51.
\nThis was the third match-up of the season for these two teams. The Javelinas won the first contest 86-84 on their homecourt, lost the next matchup on the road, and finished their season with a March 8 loss to the Lady Buffs at the Comercia Center in Frisco.
\nThe Javelinas were 19 for 64, making 29.7 percent of their attempts from the field and 5 for 17 from behind the three-point line, for a three-point percentage of 29.4 percent.
\nPayne led the scoring charge for the Javelinas with 14 points, eight of those coming from the free-throw line. Payne led the team\u2019s passing and defensive games with three assists and three steals.
\nKana made the most of her 23 minutes with a career-high 11 points. She was three-for-five from beyond the arc. She also dished off a team-high three assists.
\nSoliz, a freshman, was the other Javelina to break into the double-digit scoring column with 10 points. Soliz proved to be the Javelina\u2019s main force around the rim, pulling down a team-high six rebounds.
\nThe other Javelinas in the scoring column were Hannah Aucoin (8), Brynae Thompson (4), Danielle Meador (2) and Nicole Hutchins (2).
\nThe loss left the Javelinas with a 9-20 record for 2019.
\nWest Texas A&M was dominant offensively, shooting 52.6 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc. They never failed to lead after the game\u2019s first minute.
\nThe game in the paint proved to be the difference maker for the Lady Buffs.
\nThey pulled down 26 percent more rebounds and scored 44 of the 66 points made in the paint.
\nWTAMU was led by Lexy Hightower who shot 70 percent from the field, 80 percent from three-point land, and totaled 18 points.
\nThe three other Lady Buffs who placed themselves into the double-digit scoring column included Nathalie Linden (13), Megan Gamble (11) and Abby Spurgin(10).
\nThe Lady Buffs would go on to win the Lone Star Conference tournament by beating the Lions of Texas A&M-Commerce and Angelo State University.
\nThey then continued their winning run with a home victory over the Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico before falling in OT to Angelo State in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Semifinals.
\nThis contest was the Javelina\u2019s last under the leadership of head coach Wade Scott. Scott\u2019s contract ended after this season.
\nStay tuned for information on TAMUK\u2019s national coaching search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite double-digit point outings from Ravae Payne, Kristina Kana and Bri-Anna Soliz, the Texas A&M women\u2019s basketball team suffered a first-round elimination at the hands… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[182],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":182,"user_id":31,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dylan-dozier","display_name":"Dylan Dozier","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/fea1cc1fe742527221bdb9ee0ed32d0d.jpg?ver=1776215706","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}