Box Score (PDF)
MOREHEAD, Ky. - Morehead State's women's basketball team knocked down a school single game record 16 three-pointers and held off a pesky Detroit Titan squad, 84-71, Sunday, at Johnson Arena. The Eagles won their fourth straight game and picked up their seventh win in eight tries to up their 2009-10 mark to 7-3.
Senior Tiffany Hamilton led the three-point barrage with a 6-for-9 showing from beyond the arc for a season high 20 points. Junior Chynna Bozeman led the team with 22 points, including four triples, and also added a team high eight assists and six rebounds to nearly pull off a triple-double. MSU also received a trio of three-balls and 13 points off the bench from senior Tiffanie Stephens as she reached double figures for the first time this season. Sophomore Counrtney Lumpkin scored 12 points and handed out six of the Eagles' 19 total assists.
The Eagles shot a season high 48 percent (30-of-63) from the floor overall and were even better from distance, canning 16 of their 30 attempts for a season best 53 percent. The Eagles lead the nation (NCAA Division I) in three-pointers attempted per game at 30.3. MSU also out-rebounded the Titans 38-31. Freshman Ashar Harris grabbed a team best 11 boards.
Detroit landed five players in double figures, led by speedy guards Jalesa Jones and Dameisha Fambro. The Eagles had trouble containing the quick Jones who scored 15 points mostly in the paint on penetration. Fambro also scored 15. Kassandra Hooten tallied 14, Yar Shayok netted 12, and Bridig Mulroy, UDM's leading scorer entering the game, pumped in 10.
MSU drilled seven three-pointers in the first 8:50 of the first half to take a 29-13 lead in what appeared to be a one-sided contest. But, Detroit was relentless as they went on a 12-2 run, capped by a Shayok layup, during the next four minute span. Suddenly, MSU's lead was cut to six (31-25). The Titans trimmed the margin down as low as five (38-33) before Ashley Martin's jumper gave MSU a 40-33 halftime lead.
The tempo kind of see-sawed back and forth in the second half as Detroit cut the Eagle lead to only four (43-39) with 18:07 left. Mulroy canned a trey at the 12:51 mark to cut it to six (55-49), but Hamilton answered right back with a three-ball. Hamilton canned another triple at the 9:42 mark to thwart another Titan rally.
From the 8:07 mark down to the 3:40 point on the clock, MSU effectively put the game away as it went on a 13-1 run. Hamilton again capped the rally with the record-breaking three-pointer to make it a 76-58 MSU advantage. The Titans made one last push, cutting the game back down to nine, but MSU hit all six of its free throws in the final minute to hold on.
The Eagles host Kentucky Christian on Monday night at 7 p.m.
