Dec. 5, 2006
SHREVEPORT, La. - The Lamar University women's basketball team opened a four-game road stretch Tuesday night, falling 80-68 to the Centenary Ladies at the Gold Dome in Shreveport, La.
The Lady Cardinals had no answer for Centenary's Holli Wilkins, who poured in a game-high 30 points while passing out seven assists, helping the Ladies (2-8) to their second win of the season. Lamar, who is off until they play next Wednesday at IUPUI, dropped to 3-5 on the year with the loss.
Trailing 42-33 at the half, Lamar was unable to slow down Wilkins who scored on Centenary's first three possessions of the second half to build the Ladies lead to 16 at 49-33.
Lamar went on a run late in the game which saw it get as close as seven points with 1:21 to play. The Lady Cards, however, could get no closer as Centenary responded by closing out the game with a 6-1 run to win 80-68.
The first half saw Lamar jump out to an early lead, but Centenary was able to build a nine-point lead behind 12 second chance points.
The Lady Cardinals shot 52 percent in the first half, knocking down 13 of their 25 shots, but Centenary drained seven 3-pointers to answer Lamar's hot shooting. Wilkins led the way for the Ladies, scoring 14 points, while Lamar was led by Williams who had eight.
Lamar cut the Centenary first half lead to three points on several occasions, but were unable to stop the Ladies from answering with a run of their own. The Lady Cardinals aided the Centenary effort in the opening 20 minutes with 11 turnovers.
The Lady Cardinals offensive effort was led by LaToya Carson who scored a season-high 24 points, while Brittney Williams posted her third double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Adding to Wilkins big night for Centenary was Cierra Bush and Bethany Joseph who scored 12 and 10 points respectively.
For the game, Lamar out shot Centenary 48 percent to 44.3 percent and they won the battle on the glass, out rebounding the Ladies 37 to 35.
The Lady Cardinals are off for the rest of the week, not taking the court again until Wednesday December 13 when they take on IUPUI in Indianapolis, Ind. at 7 p.m.
