CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – In a key Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA) Monday afternoon matchup, Bowie State University women's basketball handed Johnson C. Smith University a 52-50 setback at JCSU's Brayboy Gymnasium.The loss is the first conference loss for the Golden Bulls in three outings and sets the Johnson C. Smith overall record at 9-5.
Bowie State improves to 8-3 for the season and 1-0 in CIAA play.
Sophomore Kyah Proctor (Capitol Heights, Md.) led the Lady Bulldogs in scoring with 21 points (14 in the first half). Sophomore Kiara Colston (Burtonsville, Md.) contributed 13 points and junior Ashley Jennings (Newark, N.J.) chipped in 10 points in the win. Jennings and Proctor led Bowie State on the glass, ripping down 10 and eight rebounds respectively.
MaryAnna Moore (Laurens, S.C.) and A'Diyah Ussery (Shelby, N.C.) led the Golden Bulls with 11 points each. Ashley Porter (Winston-Salem, N.C.) pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds and Larryqua Hall (Atlanta, Ga.) grabbed 10 in the loss.
The Bowie State Lady Bulldogs led Johnson C. Smith 12-10 after the first quarter and took a 27-19 lead into halftime. As a team, Bowie State shot 29 percent from the field (9-of-31) in the first 2o minutes and made 8-of-10 free throws. On the other side of the stat sheet, the Golden Bulls made 7-of-29 first half field goals (24.1 percent) and 50 percent (5-of-10) of its free throws.
A Hall jumper at the 1:59 mark of the third quarter tied the score at 34-all and the Golden Bulls took their first lead (43-41) since 9-8 of the first quarter, at the 5:45 mark of the final quarter.
A Colston jumper followed by a pair of free throws shifted the advantage back over to Bowie State after a technical foul on JCSU's Quinseha Lynch (Rocky Mount, N.C.) with 4:22 left on the clock.
After JCSU's Lynch was fouled on a put back attempt, she tied it once more by nailing two free throws at the 3:03 mark, but Bowie State responded when Proctor hit a jumper to provide a 47-45 score. After a JCSU miss, BSU's Colston missed two free throws, but the Golden Bulls could not capitalize, turning it over on their next possession.
Following an Ussery miss, Ashley Porter boarded the miss and was fouled. She then hit one free throw to draw JCSU to within 47-46 with 1:20 left.
Bowie State's Jennings found her way to the line after a JCSU foul, knocking down one shot with 1:09 left to give the Bulldogs the 48-46 lead.
Bowie State would then get a steal from Jennings and she converted a jumper to provide the 50-46 lead. JCSU then got a layup from Porter to bring JCSU to within 50-48.
After a travelling call on the Lady Bulldogs with 14.5 remaining, JCSU was able to get another layup from Porter with 7.9 left to knot the game at 50-50.
After a BSU timeout, Colston knifed through the JCSU defense and got a layup to drop in traffic with 4.9 seconds left to make it 52-50.
Offensively, the Lady Bulldogs shot just 31 percent from the floor 18-of-58, hitting just 2-of-10 from three-point range. The Golden Bulls made 18-of-57 from the field (31.6 percent) and 3-of-16 from long range (18.8 percent). Johnson C. Smith outrebounded Bowie State 43-35 but committed 21 turnovers.
The Bowie State Lady Bulldogs will continue its CIAA Southern swing playing again on Tuesday (1/5), making a short hope over to Livingstone College for a 5:30 p.m. tilt against the Lady Blue Bears.
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