'It's always good': Defense powers Southern women's win over Grambling in SWAC home opener

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The box score wasn’t pretty.

Sometimes it doesn’t need to be.

In the Southern womens' first home Southwestern Athletic Conference victory this season, the Jaguars pounced on Grambling from Saturday’s tip with defense, outworking Grambling in a 63-44 victory Saturday at the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

“Tonight was won defensively, rebounding — which has been a big thing for us — steals, boxing out,” Southern forward Briana Green said.

“Staying aggressive defensively,” guard Skylar O’Bear added. “We knew our offense would come.”

With Green’s 15 points and O’Bear’s 13, Southern’s offense did come. Southern (3-9, 2-1 SWAC) fluctuated between large leads with smaller ones as its defense forced 28 Grambling turnovers. The Jaguars’ defiant defense sortied their offense. Southern turned Grambling’s giveaways into 25 points and pounded the Lady Tigers’ defensive interior for 24 points in the paint.

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