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Kyndall Hardeman layup vs. UTD 2-4-21
Sarah Bell
Kyndall Hardeman gave LETU a late lead, but the Jackets couldn't hold on against UTD Thursday.
67
Winner Texas-Dallas UTD 8-2,4-1 ASC
62
LeTourneau LETU 9-3,5-2 ASC
Winner
Texas-Dallas UTD
8-2,4-1 ASC
67
Final
62
LeTourneau LETU
9-3,5-2 ASC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Texas-Dallas UTD 15 17 18 17 67
LeTourneau LETU 12 8 23 19 62

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

LETU Falls to UTD, Despite Late Charge

LONGVIEW – LeTourneau University women's basketball team made a late push, but it wasn't enough to knock off the University of Texas at Dallas Thursday at Solheim Arena. The YellowJackets fell, 67-62.
 
LETU (9-3, 5-2 American Southwest Conference) trailed by nine to start the fourth quarter after UTD's Kaitlyn Judge sank two free throws to open the period. But the Jackets erased the deficit with a 9-0 spurt. Scruffy Hopkins scored in the paint, Keauna Whitfield canned a three-pointer, Ajanae Thomas converted a layup, and Malacia Guy had a lay-in of her own to knot the score at 52-52 with 6:22 to play.
 
Kyndall Hardeman scored on an assist from Guy at the 5:16 mark to give the Jackets a two-point lead. UTD's Asia Mitchell converted a three-point play to cap a 5-0 Comets run. Thomas scored off an offensive rebound on the Jackets' next trip down the floor to bring LETU within one, 57-56. Mitchell and Thomas swapped buckets over a 21-second span to keep it a one-point game. But Raenett Hughes hit a layup, Kelley Skinner sank four free throws, and Madison Hill split a pair as the Comets (8-2, 4-1 ASC) pulled away in the closing minute. Guy drained a 3-pointer with 16 seconds to go, and sank one of two free throws with three seconds to go, but it wasn't enough.
 
Guy finished with 18 points, eight assists, five rebounds, four steals and a block. Whitfield had 16 points and nine boards. Thomas scored 10 points, and grabbed six rebounds. Flora Akingbade had eight points, 12 boards and one steal. Hardeman had six points, six rebounds and a block. The YellowJackets shot 32.4 percent.
 
Skinner had 20 points and seven rebounds, Hughes had 13 points and eight boards, Kaitlyn Judge scored 11 points, and Mitchell 10 for the Comets, who shot 41.5 percent.  
 
LeTourneau outscored UT Dallas, 22-6, in second chance points in a game with six ties and four lead changes. Both teams scored 34 points in the paint.
 
LETU trailed, 32-20, at halftime, but outscored UT Dallas 23-18 in the third quarter to pull within seven.
 
The Jackets will host Ozarks at 1 p.m. Saturday.
 
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