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Resize vs. Nelson
Ian Kinder
73
Winner Nelson (Texas) NELSON ( 4-8, 3-6
65
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 3-8, 2-7
Winner
Nelson (Texas) NELSON (
4-8, 3-6
73
Final
65
UNT Dallas UNT DALL
3-8, 2-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Nelson (Texas) NELSON ( 18 21 16 18 73
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 27 12 13 13 65

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Strong Season Performances not Enough as Trailblazers fall to Nelson

DALLAS, Texas – University of North Texas at Dallas fell 73-65 to Nelson on Saturday afternoon at Ellis Davis Field House. The Trailblazers (3-8, 2-7 SAC) were unable to maintain a strong first quarter that saw them score a season-high 27 points in a quarter. Nelson (4-8, 3-6 SAC) erased a nine-point gap in the second quarter to even the score at halftime and would pull away in the fourth to secure the conference win.
 
Senior Skye Dugan (Richardson, Texas) tallied a game-high 23 points and registered her first career double-double with 10 rebounds. Dugan set a personal-best on the glass and the 23 points were her third highest scoring performance on the campaign. It is her second-highest scoring performance in a conference game.
 
Sophomore De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) notched the team's second double-double in the game with personal-high 18 points and a team-high 11 rebounds. Johnson has eclipsed double-digits in rebounds the past two games – the first of her career – and has 25 boards in that span.
 
Senior Eryka Patton (Hutchins, Texas) extended her scoring streak with double figures to seven games. She rounded out a trio of players to surpass double figures with 14 points.
 
Nelson jumped out to a six-point lead to start the game with consecutive trifectas in the first minute. The Lions built a quick 8-2 lead before UNTD responded the with a trey by Johnson and jumper by Patton. Johnson tied the game at nine with 6:13 left and Dugan drilled a three to give her team its first lead of the day and capped a 10-0 run. Dugan added a trio of treys during a 15-7 scoring span in the final 3:52 minutes of the first. Her final triple opened the largest advantage of the contest at nine (25-16) for the first time with 1:14 left. A basket by freshman Ke'Liyah Anderson (Dallas, Texas) ended the quarter with a 27-18 edge for the Trailblazers.
 
Nine quick points with three trifectas helped narrow the margin to two points (29-27) in the first minute and a half of the second quarter. A layup by junior Kaylyn Minor (Garland, Texas) and Patton kept the gap at four points and a trey by senior Mya Bills (Rockwall, Texas) maintained the lead for the Trailblazers until six straight points by the Lions flipped the score late in the period. Dugan split at the free throw line late in the game to send the teams into the break with the score tied at 39.
 
Nelson never trailed the rest of the game, as Kate Miller scored a triple and added a layup for the first five points of the second half. The Trailblazers battled to keep the game within a possession throughout the third. A 5-0 spurt that included a three-point play by Johnson and a tying layup by Bills led to the final time the scoreboard was deadlocked at 48 with 4:10 left. The Lions scored seven of the next 12 points to end the quarter with a 55-52 lead.
 
A layup by Johnson cut the deficit to a point to open the fourth, but the Lions rattled the next seven points to grab an eight-point lead (62-54) with 7:33 left in the game. Dugan netted the next five points with her fifth trey of the game and a layup by Patton nipped the deficit to three points (64-61) with just over five minutes remaining. A cold spell on both sides lasted nearly a minute as teams traded points and the Lions prevailed by closing the game on a 9-4 run. UNTD had two field goals in the final four minutes for all its points.
 
UNT Dallas shot 41.9 percent from the field and made a season-high 26 field goals. This included matching a season-high seven three-pointers. Both games were at Ellis Davis Field House with the other against Oklahoma City. Dugan was a major factor in both games making four treys in the OCU game and then improving on her season-high by one in Saturday's affair. The Trailblazers also set season-bests as a team with 15 assists and six blocks.
 
Sophomore Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) dished a personal-high seven assists and was two away from matching the single-game record done by Kayla James on December 9, 2023 vs. Central Christian. UNTD held a 13-5 advantage on fast break points including a 7-0 edge in the fourth quarter and 11-2 edge in the second half.
 
Both teams had 30 points in the paint.
 
Nelson held advantages on points off turnovers, 29-12, and second chance points, 22-8. The bench scored 34 points and had 19 in the 21-12 second quarter. Miller notched a double-double with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Paris Miller scored a team-high 21 points and contributed seven rebounds. Kyla McMinn tossed in 13 points and grabbed seven boards. The Lions shot 37.5 percent (30-80) from the floor and made eight three-pointers.
 
UNT Dallas closes the 2024 portion of the season and will resume play at Ellis Davis Field House on Saturday, January 4. Tip-off against Southwestern Christian will be at 2:00 p.m.
 
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