KINGSVILLE, Texas- The Texas A&M-Kingsville Women's Basketball Team would travel to Wichita Falls, Texas where they would face off against the Midwestern State Mustangs coming away with a 64-52 victory.
"I thought we played three decent quarters and had one bad quarter offensively." said coach
Michael Madrid. " Need to clean up a lot of things still in terms of securing defensive rebounds and valuing the basketball. We were very loose with the ball and didn't make solid decisions. However, a win is a win and anytime you get one on the road in this league it's a good thing. We are looking forward to our next opportunity".
Junior
Janessa Payne shined in the game this time for the Javelinas scoring 12 points securing 2 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 steal. The only other Javelina scoring double digits being
Mia Rivers who also made a huge impact as she scored 17 bringing in 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and a block to her line.
The Javelinas led in almost every category on the day, dominating offensively shooting 44.2% from the field compared to the mustangs 36.7%. Same went for the rest of the shooting categories as the Javelinas led in 3PT% 35.0% to 13.3% and FT% 64.7% to the Mustangs 50.0%. The Javelinas also spread the ball around with 19 assists to MSU's 8 as well as had more blocks 6 to 1. The Mustangs did manage to best the Javelinas in two categories, rebounds 39-33 and Steals 10-7.
The game would begin as a battle with both squads immediately trading layups,
Georgia Ohiaeri being the first points on the board for the Javelinas.
Mia Rivers follows directly after with a deep ball, putting the Javelinas up early with 8:42 left in the quarter. The Mustangs would climb back with a jumper bringing the Javelina lead to one before an
Abby Bala layup would extend it to three once again. MSU would make a three tying the game up at 7 apiece with 6:02 left in the first.
Aina Maynou would join the scoring as she would add a layup to the mix putting the Javelinas in front again 9-7 with 5:55 left in the quarter. The Mustangs would go on a 6-0 run putting things at 9-13 and them in the lead with 3:19 left in the first. The Javelinas would get hot from behind the arc as a
Maynou layup would be the start of an 8-3 run that includes an
Alyssa O' Malley and
Jayde Tschritter deep ball sending things into the second with the Javelinas on top 17-16.
The second would take a little bit to get going as the first points wouldn't be recorded until the 7:54 point where the Mustangs would make a layup starting a 6-1 run going up 22-18 with 6:27 left in the second.
Janessa Payne would stop the run with a three putting the Javelinas within one 21-22 with 5:24 left before the half. MSU would go on another run a 6-0 run this time putting things at 21-28 with 2:54 left. The Javelinas would themselves go on a 5-0 run in the last 1:18 putting the score at 26-28 heading into the half.
Coming out of the locker room, it would be
Ohiaeri who ties things up at 28 with a layup early before the back-and-forth battle would again ensue. The Mustangs would go on a 7-2 run putting them in front 35-30 with 5:11 left in the third. The Javelinas would gain their ground right back however going on a 6-2 run putting them down only one with 3:41 left 36-37. A MSU jumper would put the Mustang lead to three but a
Shelby Ray deep ball would tie things up at 39 and it would be a new game with 3:18 left in the third. Both squads would trade jumpers tying things at 44 before the Mustangs would make a layup sending things into the fourth 44-46.
The fourth would start with a
Veyda Lake jumper tying things at 46 early in the fourth.
Payne would follow with a three seeing two minutes plus of gametime pass before MSU would respond with a layup putting the Javelinas lead to one. Both squads would go back and forth before a
Ray layup would begin a 12-2 run that would last the full remaining 4:51 of the fourth closing out the game 64-52 with the Javelinas walking away winners.
The Javelinas will be back out on the road for the last time of the regular season facing off against the Cameron Aggies Saturday February 24
nd, at the Aggie Gym in Lawton, Oklahoma, tip off slated for 1:00 P.M.
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