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MOREHEAD, Ky. - The Morehead State women's basketball team drained a season high 12 three-pointers on a school and Ohio Valley Conference single game record 49 attempts and out-rebounded Presbyterian 53-36 Friday night as the Eagles topped the Blue Hose 62-51 in the first game of the MSU Invitational. MSU won its first game of 2009-10, improving to 1-2, while PC fell to 0-3.
Junior guard Chynna Bozeman led the Eagles with a season high 21 points, hitting five of the 12 long balls. Sophomore Courtney Lumpkin scored 10 points, dished out a team high seven assists and grabbed five rebounds. Freshman Ashar Harris, the OVC leader in offensive rebounds, grabbed six o-boards and finished with 10 overall rebounds.
As a team, the Eagles posted 26 offensive rebounds and 27 defensive caroms and took 76 overall shots. Presbyterian only had one more overall shot attempt (50) than the Eagles did three-point shots. But, the offensive rebounding ultimately gave head coach Mike Bradbury's team the opportunities it needed to hold off the Blue Hose.
"We rebounded well and that won the game for us. They were giving us so many open shots and we just couldn't hit. We didn't shoot well, but we'll take it and get back to work tonight. This is a tough stretch with three games in three days," he said.
The Eagles won despite shooting just 26 percent from the field and only 24 percent in the second half. MSU was 6-of-22 from long range in the first 20 minutes and hit 6-of-27 in the final half.
Presbyterian was led by the 14 points from Amanda Mills. Dria David hauled in a team high seven rebounds. The Blue Hose shot 36 percent (18-of-50) for the game.
MSU led 21-16 with 5:56 left in the first half but then went on a 12-5 run to end the half up 33-21. Tiffanie Stephens hit back-to-back treys to end the half. Tiffany Hamilton and Lumpkin drained triples to open the second half, and MSU opened up its largest lead at 18 (39-21).
The Blue Hose cut the Eagle lead under double digits only once in the last 10:45. At that point, two Mariah Pietrowski free throws had the game down to eight (46-38). But, MSU went on a 9-2 run and pushed the advantage back out to 15 with 4:29 left.
Morehead State plays Lipscomb on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The Lady Bisons lost to Winston-Salem State in the opening game of the tournament.
