24-25 WBB Conference Action

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Lamar women return to SLC action Thursday at 7PM versus UIW.  Cards won their opening conference game in December before closing out the non-conference schedule and taking a long Christmas break.

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Ladies open like they never took any time off with a 21-7 first quarter.  Cards shoot 64% from the field and lead in rebounding.  Only rusty spot is turnovers where the Cards have two more than UIW.

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Lamar up 41-15 at the half.  Second quarter was almost a repeat of the first quarter 20-8.

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UIW outscore Lamar by one in the third quarter as Lamar's shooting percentage falls and UIW starts hitting some shots.  Lamar still committing way too many turnovers as they now have twenty-one for the game.

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UIW outscores Lamar in the second half but are unable to overcome the first half deficit.  Lamar improves to two and zero in conference play one game back of Southeastern who has won their first three conference games.  Final score LU 69 - UIW 47

 

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The Ladies return to action this evening taking on UNO.    UNO is currently 0-3 in conference action.  Tip-off is at 7PM

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Lamar outscores UNO 22-8 in the first quarter.

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Lamar up 76-43 going into the fourth quarter.

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Final score 94-52 Lamar on top.  Cards hold UNO to single digits in the first and fourth quarters.  With big wins, it is kind of picky to look for negatives, but the coaches will, so free throw percentage was lower than normal, and first half turnovers.  Ladies will take on SFA Saturday afternoon beginning at 3 PM.

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Tight first half with Lamar up by two points, 34-32.  Lamar shooting better from the field, but SFA has eight more free throws made than Lamar.  Lamar took pretty good care of the ball with only six turnovers.

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SFA outscores Lamar in the third quarter to tie the game at 50.

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1:45 left in the game with Lamar up by three points.

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32 seconds left, Lamar has the lead by two points and the ball.  71-69

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SFA hits a three-pointer with 9.5 seconds left to pull within one point 75-74.  Fouls Dean with six seconds left.  She hits both free throws and SFA is unable to make their last attempt.  Cards win 77-74.  Ladies remain a half game back of SLU in the standings as SLU won again to move to 6-0 on the season.

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Women play at Nicholls tonight with a 6:30 PM tipoff.

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Tough first half finds Lamar down three 31-28.  Cards got out to an eight-point lead but then stalled out.  Nicholls came back with a 9-2 run to take the lead at the end of the first quarter.  Davis picked up two fouls in the first quarter, only playing about seven minutes of the half.  Davis and Dean only have two points each only scoring from the free throw line.

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After three quarters the Cards lead 55-40.  Davis played five minutes before picking up her third foul and helped get Lamar going with sound defense and her rebounding.  When she went out Lamar kept building the lead and playing solid defense holding Nicholls to nine points for the quarter.

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Lamar wins 67-53.  Nicholls outscored Lamar by one point in the fourth quarter, but part of that was that the Cards obviously slowed down their offensive intensity and therefore did not get the same quality of shots that they got during the third quarter.  Dean led the way with nineteen points, followed by Denley with thirteen and Taylor with ten.

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Ladies keep things going with a with 68-52 win over McNeese in Lake Charles.

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Ladies defeated ET A&M Saturday and return to action this afternoon for the post postponed game versus NWST at 4 PM.

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Ladies start out extremely slowly making only two field goals in the first quarter on eighteen attempts while NWST hits 6-8 three-point attempts before missing their last two.  NWST up 20-9 after the first quarter.

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Ladies play better in the second quarter, but only close the gap by one point.  NWST still up 33-25 at the half.

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Ladies come out in the second half and turn the tables on NWST, tying the game up in the third quarter and then taking the lead and then holding on to get the win 59-55.  Next up for the Cards is league leading SLU on Thursday evening in Hammond, La.

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Ladies return to action this evening with a 6 PM start time from Hammond, La. against SLU.  This game features the last two undefeated teams left in the conference race.  This game is doubly critical as it will be the only meeting between these two teams before the conference tournament and will likely determine the number one seed.  Go Lady Cards.

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Game tied at fourteen after one quarter.  SLU got out to the early lead then Lamar came back and got to as much as a 14-7 lead before SLU made another run to tie the game.