Sunday, March 9, 2014

SIAC Tournament: Birmingham native, Benedict's Amanda Toliver leads Tigers to title game win



BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --  Birmingham native Amanda Toliver scored 16 points and while pulling down seven rebounds and dishing out as many assists to help lead Benedict College to a 67-64 overtime victory against Albany State in the women's final of the SIAC basketball tournament Saturday night. 

"It feels pretty good," said the junior, who attended Minor High School. "I'm glad I'm with this certain team right here. This is a different team from any other I've played with. I've never experienced a team like this. We've had ups and downs, people got hurt and still came back. Like coach (James) Rice always says, 'You gotta go through something' and we went through something today and we proved that we grew up as a team." 
Saturday, the Tigers trailed by nine against ASU with under ... 



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