COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M used strong team offense to prevail over Prairie View A&M on
Friday night at Reed Arena by a score of 74-52 in front of 4,915 fans. Texas
A&M improves to 9-4 with the victory while Prairie View A&M fell to 3-7
with the loss.
Reigning SEC Player of the Week, espnw.com National Player of the Week and
Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week Kelsey Bone continued her strong play with
her sixth straight game of double figure scoring with 18 points, Bone has raised
her season average in points in each game during the stretch. Over the last
three weeks Bone is averaging 23.8 points and 9.5 rebounds, Bone was just shy of
yet another double-double with nine rebounds on the night. In addition to
scoring and rebounding the basketball Bone dished out six assists on the
night.
"Kelsey enjoys the pass as much as the shot," Head Coach Gary Blair said after the game. "This is the
first time we've ever had a national player of the week. I hope that will give
our team and her some good national attention. She's playing like an
All-American right now."
The Aggie offense jumped out to an early 10-6 lead at first media timeout, Kristi Bellock (6) and Bone (4) combined for
all 10 of A&M's points. Beginning at the 17:05 mark in the first half the
Aggies went on a 11-0 run over 2:16 of game play capped off by an old-fashioned
three point play from Tori Scott to make the score 17-6.
The Maroon and White began the game on an impressive run of nine assists on
the first nine made field goals in the game, en route to 24 Aggie points. The
assist streak came to an end with a Karla Gilbert offensive rebound and put-back
to make the score 26-10 with 7:46 remaining in the first half.
The Aggie offense continued to share the ball throughout the game as the
Aggies ended with 23 assists on the night, just one off the season high of 24
set against Old Dominion eight days ago. Texas A&M has had at least 19
assists in each of the last four games and is averaging an impressive 22.3
assists per game in that stretch.
The home team used an early 6-2 run in the second half to stretch the Aggie
lead out to a then game high 23 points with 17:25 remaining. Senior Adrienne Pratcher ignited the run with a
nifty step-back jumper, Pratcher ended the game with four points and seven
assists to lead the team.
Later in the second half the Aggies put the game out of reach with an
impressive 16-4 run to give Texas A&M a game-high 32 point lead. In the run
Texas A&M post players combined for 12 of the Aggie points, Freshman Courtney Walker made two jumpers for the
remaining four points on the run.
Bellock had an efficient night scoring 14 points and pulling down eight
rebounds in 25 minutes of play. Joining Bone and Bellock in double figures
scoring were Walker and Gilbert with 11 points apiece. Texas A&M forced 13
Panther turnovers leading to 25 points and out-rebounded Prairie View 38-21,
limiting the Panthers to only four offensive rebounds.
The Aggies will return to Reed Arena for a New Year's Day contest against
Rice at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday's game will continue the half-price holiday hoops
promotion.
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