BEAUMONT, Texas – The Lamar University women's basketball program will close out their home portion of their schedule when they welcome Stephen F. Austin to the Montagne Center on Saturday, February 27
th with a 2 p.m. tipoff.
Redshirt junior
Micaela Wilson continues to lead the Cardinals offensively with 12.2 points per game and leads the team in rebounds with 124 on the season. Freshman
Bebe Galloway leads the Southland in shooting percentage where she makes 60 percent of her shots from the field.
The Ladyjacks are led by Zya Nugent on the offense who averages 13.1 points a game while Avery Brittingham leads SFA's defense with 6.6 points a game. The Ladyjacks are coming off a 114-58 win over Northwestern State where they captured the 2020-21 Southland Regular Season title.
BROADCAST INFORMATION
- RADIO: There will be a radio broadcast on NEWSTALK 560 KLVI with Harold Mann on the call.
- TV: The contest in Beaumont will be broadcasted on ESPN+ with Dan Gresham at play-by-play and LeMont Williams at the color analyst spot.
LAST TIME OUT
- The Lamar University women's basketball program battled back and forth with the Incarnate Word Cardinals and came out on top at the final whistle over UIW, 59-55, at the Montagne Center on Wednesday night.
- The Cardinals battled in the first quarter despite falling down early in the frame. Freshman Bebe Galloway got the Big Red scoring open on a layup down low before another layup just seconds later by senior Jadyn Pimentel evened things out in the Montagne. Lamar took their first lead of the game on a free-throw by freshman Sabria Dean at the 6:37 mark in the period. Both teams almost carried the same shooting percentage in the first as UIW shot 46 percent from the field while limiting the Cards to just 40 percent. Lamar dominated the glass in the opening frame, outrebounding the Southland's other Cardinals, 12-4, in the first.
- The second quarter was another battle between the programs as senior Shedricka Pierson lead the Cards with five points in the frame. The Cardinals shot 56 percent from the field while limiting UIW to 40 percent in the second frame. The Big Red tallied nine points off of turnovers, but despite some hot shooting and pressure defense the Southland's other Cards took a 28-27 lead over Lamar into the halftime break.
- Going into the fourth quarter, the Cardinals were looking to create some breathing room, and they got that but UIW answered back with runs of their own to keep the game close. A massive three-pointer by Wilson helped seal the deal for the Cards and crucial fouls committed by UIW kept Lamar in the lead in the winding minutes of the contest and as the final buzzer went off, the Cards found themselves on top of UIW for a 59-55 win in the Montagne.
SERIES HISTORY
- This marks the 77th meeting between the programs with the Ladyjacks holding a 59-17.
- The last time out, SFA captured the first meeting in Nacogdoches, 69-39, over the Cardinals.
