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Louisiana Tech beats Southern Miss 16th consecutive time at Ruston
News Highlights: Louisiana Tech beats Southern Miss 16th consecutive time at Ruston
By: Adam Ledyard (ETBU Athletics)
MARSHALL, Tx (ETBU Athletics) – Lighting the nets for the second game in a row, the East Texas Baptist University women’s basketball team scored more than 90 points to run their winning streak to 16 games with a 97-66 win over Belhaven University. With 16-0, ETBU is now 7-0 in the American Southwest Conference and pegs NCAA Division I University of Louisville for the most victories in NCAA women’s basketball this season.
ETBU was led by Kenidi White (15 points), Bridget Upton (14 points) and Brooke Webster (12 points), who all had double digits for the Tigers. Grace Stephens led ETBU with five assists while her older sister Mallory converted all eight of her free throws. Mariah Collins and Sydney Martin posted double digits with 12 and 11 points respectively.
Bria Neal (10) led HPU with 18 points in Saturday’s loss to ETBU. [Photo by Derrick Stuckly]
In what marked their first official American Southwest Conference basketball game of the season, the Howard Payne Lady Jackets shaved an 18-point deficit down to a single bucket but could not complete the comeback as the undefeated East Texas Baptist Lady Tigers prevailed with a 69-63 victory Saturday afternoon at the Brownwood Coliseum.
The loss halted a three-game win streak for the Lady Jackets (3-4, 0-1), while East Texas Baptist – under the direction of head coach Blake Arbogast, a former Yellow Jacket, and assisted by Jordan Young, an ex-Yellow Jacket player and assistant men’s coach – improved to 14-0 overall and 6-0 against league foes.