Despite a strong first half, the TAMUK women\u2019s basketball team fell 78-52 to the Hilltoppers of St. Edward\u2019s University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Edwards captured the momentum early, blasting off on a\n12-point run. 10 of those points came off the hand of guard Charli Becker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
18 seconds after Becker hit her last bucket of the run, redshirt\nsenior Angelica Wall put the Javelinas on the board. Wall\u2019s jumper catalyzed the\nhost\u2019s first run of the game. The 13-point hot streak saw contributions from four\nJavelinas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Junior Anastacia Mickens kept the scoring alive with a layup\nat the 5:33 mark. With three minutes remaining in the first period, forward\nDaisah Purnell hit a triple to cut the visitor\u2019s advantage to 12-7. Two straight jumpers from sophomore Bridget\nUpton cut the Hilltopper lead to one. Mickens hit the go-ahead jumper with thirty\nseconds left to play in the frame, giving the host team their first advantage\nof the outing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hilltoppers got things going in the second period with a\n6-0 run that gave them an 18-13 advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
San Angelo-native Bria-Anna Soliz broke the second-quarter\nice for the Blue and Gold at the free-throw line after being hacked on an\nin-bound play. Mickens followed Soliz\u2019s visit to the line with a layup, cutting\nthe Hilltopper lead to 18-17. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With their advantage at one and 4:23 to go in the first\nhalf, the Hilltoppers began a 12-point scoring streak that would go unanswered until\nUpton scored four points in the last few seconds of the half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Up 30-20 at the beginning of the third period, Hilltopper\nguard Fairen Sutton hit a pair of triples, extending their lead to 16. A strong\noffensive attack kept the advantage in the hands of the Hilltoppers for the duration\nof the third, the largest lead being 22. A five-point effort by TAMUK cut their\ndeficit down to 54-37 at the end of the third-quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final period of regulation was all St. Mary\u2019s. A 24-point fame from the visitors led to a\n29-point advantage with 2:20 left in action. A free-throw from Madison Lucas\nand an Upton-jumper brought the final score to 78-52. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mickens and Upton each dropped a dozen points a-piece,\nleading TAMUK in the scoring column. \nMickens and Treazure Mouton led the Blue and Gold on the boards with 6\nand 5 rebounds, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Javelinas return to LSC-action on February 15th<\/sup>\nwith a homestand against Texas A&M International. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite a strong first half, the TAMUK women\u2019s basketball team fell 78-52 to the Hilltoppers of St. Edward\u2019s University. St. Edwards captured the momentum early,… <\/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-3535","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\/3535","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=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}