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Sha'Donnaver Young
LeTourneau Athletic Communications
42
LeTourneau LETU-W 1-2
53
Winner Birmingham-So. BSC-W 1-3
LeTourneau LETU-W
1-2
42
Final
53
Birmingham-So. BSC-W
1-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
LeTourneau LETU-W 6 10 15 11 42
Birmingham-So. BSC-W 14 14 14 11 53

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Contact: Matt Kinney, Sports Information Director, mattkinney@letu.edu

Early Hole Too Much To Overcome For LeTourneau Women's Basketball

JACKSON, Miss. – Falling behind 14-6 at the end of the first quarter, the LeTourneau University women's basketball team would be unable to overcome a 28-16 halftime deficit in a 53-42 neutral-site defeat to Birmingham-Southern University in the 2018 Millsaps Thanksgiving Classic at the Hangar Dome in Jackson, Mississippi on Saturday, November 24th.
 
LeTourneau is now 1-2 overall this season while the Panthers picked up their first win of the season to improve to 3-1 overall.
 
How It Happened:
  • Defense for both squads shined in the opening minutes of the game as points would prove hard to come by for a majority of the first quarter.
  • Trailing 7-3 with 7:03 left in the opening period, the YellowJackets would trade free throws with BSC as the game would go 5:23 without a made field goal before an Alexandria Throne layup pulled LETU within two at 8-6.
  • The basket would prove to be the last field goal of the quarter for LeTourneau as a 6-0 run for Birmingham-Southern gave the Panthers a 14-6 lead.
  • Plagued by a slow start to the opening of the second quarter, LETU would see BSC go up 21-8 with 7:21 left in the first half, ending the 7-2 run after Keauna Whitfield would knock down a jump shot 21 seconds later.
  • The Birmingham-Southern lead would grow to as many as 15 at 25-10, but the YellowJackets would manage to double up the Panthers 6-3 in the final four minutes of the half to trail 28-16 at halftime.
  • Needing to find a spark to be able to get back into the game, LETU would be unable to cut into the lead out of the halftime break as Birmingham-Southern used a 9-0 run to break the game open and take their largest lead of the game at 42-20.
  • Down but not out, LeTourneau responded by scoring the final 11 points of the third quarter which started with a Whitfield triple as the lead would be cut to just 11 at 42-31.
  • Neither team would be able to match their third quarter scoring output as the first four minutes of the fourth period would go scoreless before Sha'Donnaver Young pulled LETU back within single-digits at 42-33.
  • Despite multiple efforts from LeTourneau to cut into the Panther lead any more, Birmingham-Southern would manage to hit timely shots and hold the YellowJackets at bay to come away with the victory.
 
Key Stats:
  • LETU would start the game just 5-for-22 from the field, scoring five of their 16 first-half points from the charity stripe.
  • Adding to the shooting woes in the game for the YellowJackets was a 3-of-19 performance from beyond the arc, with two of the three triples coming in the second half.
  • A 19-12 advantage in points off turnovers would spark the Panthers, who would force 22 LeTourneau turnovers while being guilty of 17  turnovers of their own.
  • Young would manage to be LETU's only player in double-digits, finishing with 10 points while Olivia Eweni and Whitfield each had nine points.
 
What's Next?
LeTourneau will look to bounce back tomorrow afternoon when they close out the Millsaps Thanksgiving Classic with a 3 p.m. game against the host Majors. Millsaps is scheduled to play Howard Payne University at 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. In last year's meeting at the 2017 Millsaps Thanksgiving Classic, LETU pulled out a 70-63 win by outscoring Millsaps 22-14 in the fourth quarter.
 
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