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66
Science and Arts SCIENCE 11-8, 9-6
76
Winner UNT Dallas UNT DALL 5-13, 4-12
Science and Arts SCIENCE
11-8, 9-6
66
Final
76
UNT Dallas UNT DALL
5-13, 4-12
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Science and Arts SCIENCE 18 20 9 19 66
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 22 15 26 13 76

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Bills' Career Game; Defensive Prowess lead Trailblazers past USAO

CHICKASHA, Okla. – Senior guard Mya Bills (Rockwall, Texas) was scorching hot shooting from the floor Monday afternoon, as she dialed in a career-best 33 points and nearly redid the record books while tying one of her own to headline a University of North Texas at Dallas 76-66 victory over University of Science and Arts. Making the trip a second time this season to Drover Field House, the Trailblazers split the season series by delivering a 10-point victory this go-around.
 
Down a point at halftime, the Trailblazers defense stifled USAO by holding the Drovers to 2-of-16 from the field and nine points. Meanwhile, the Trailblazers posted 11-of-21 from the floor at 52.4 percent and were a combined 16-31 to shoot north of 50 percent in the second stanza.  
 
The triumph snapped a five-game losing streak and brought UNT Dallas to a 5-13 record overall. The win is the second Sooner Athletic Conference for 2025 and improves the team to 4-12. USAO fell to 11-8 overall and 9-6 in league play, sitting in fifth at the start of the day.
 
The game was back-and-forth throughout the first half and saw the opening quarter with five lead changes. UNTD grabbed the advantage three times and tied once, while the Drovers went on top twice. Bills had the first five points and a three gave the Trailblazers their first lead of the game at 5-4 two and a half minutes into action. USAO led by three a few times over the next several minutes. Senior guard ShanDrell Yeldell (Dallas, Texas) scored a quick layup to spark three baskets in a row that led to six points and put the Trailblazers ahead 15-12 with 3:16 remaining. Freshman Ke'Liyah Anderson (Dallas, Texas) swiped a steal and found Bills for a layup on the breakaway. Bills added another jumper to increase the margin. A triple by senior Skye Dugan (Richardson, Texas) pushed the lead with 1:46 left to 20-16 and Bills capped her big first quarter with a jumper to open UNTD's largest lead of the game at that time at six. Bills finished with 11 points in the frame to suggest a special scoring game for the senior. USAO did get a last-second basket to close the quarter down 22-18.
 
Science and Arts carried the last bucket momentum into the second quarter, going on a 12-0 run to build an eight-point advantage (30-22) through four minutes of action. The Trailblazers finally found the bottom of the net and snapped the drought with a jumper on a fastbreak by freshman Lauren Pete (Rockwall, Texas). Senior Eryka Patton (Hutchins, Texas) split at the free throw line and Bills buried a trey just past the midway point of the quarter to make it a 30-28 game. The Drovers pushed the lead back five points with three and a half minutes before intermission. Patton, Bills, and Pete scored the final six UNTD points and helped close the half on a 6-2 run to trail 38-37 at halftime.
 
Things were back-and-forth to start the third quarter, as the Trailblazers scored first to go on top. After a layup changed the one-point score to favor USAO, Bills knocked down a triple on the fastbreak with an assist from Patton. The Drovers tied the score two more times, but with things knotted at 44, the Trailblazers erupted for 12 straight points from 5:56 to 3:28 to swing the pendulum to their side. Sophomore De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) made the go-ahead layup, Dugan had a layup and then Patton followed an offensive rebound to putback to make it a six-point streak. Bills kept her hot scoring game going with a jumper and Dugan added a jump shot, then forced a steal that transitioned to two more points on the fastbreak. Three free throws is all USAO could tally to finalize its scoring in the frame, as Yeldell and Pete had layups to stretch the advantage to 13 and 14, respectively. With seven seconds left, Bills capped the 26-point third for UNTD with her fourth trey of the game and give her squad a 63-47 lead.
 
The greatest lead for the Trailblazers was 17 at 5:37 in the fourth quarter. Bills notched her seventh three-ball to match a program record, which the senior last achieved in February of 2024. That opened a 74-57 score. UNT Dallas scored two points the final five and a half minutes, but the game was secured as it dribbled the clock out most of the way and the gap never went beneath 10.
 
Bills was three points away from matching a single-game high achieved by Zyunn Cormier on February 18, 2023 versus Central Christian. Bills shot 12-of-16 from the field and was one field goal make shy of tying Cormier's three-time record. Bills adds this game to the fifth installment of making seven three-pointers. Bills did it last against Oklahoma City last season on Feb. 10, 2024. Cormier holds the other three occasions. Bills does have pride in being the highest success percentage with both her record-tying games being 7-of-10 from downtown. Bills added two rebounds, assists, a block and steal to her big day.
Dugan tossed in 13 points, giving her 14 double-digit scoring games. She has seven in the past eight games. Dugan dished six assists, giving her four games now to eclipse that total for a single contest. She came down with four rebounds and swiped two steals. Yeldell posted 11 points, four assists, and two steals. Patton ended her 13-game double-digit scoring streak with nine points. She also had six rebounds, which was the first time this year the forward did not crack double-digits in either category.
 
UNT Dallas shot a season-best 48.4 percent from the field and tied a season-high 30 made field goals. The Trailblazers scored 30 field goals in both games on this road swing to Oklahoma. The team sank a season-high nine three-point field goals and went seven-for-eight at the charity stripe. The team dished 16 assists and has surpassed double-digits in seven-of-eight games and the past three. This is the third game for the team to reach 16 assists and is second-most in a game this season. The team also had five blocks and matched USAO with nine steals. The Trailblazers held an 18-14 edge on points off turnovers and 29-16 advantage on fastbreak points, which included a 15-2 second half advantage.
 
The Drovers took advantage of second chance points, 17-6 and held a narrow difference on points in the paint, 36-34. USAO shot 35.3 percent from the field, which was mainly hampered by an 8-of-30 second half and 1-of-15 from three-point range for the game. They did well at the free throw line with a 17-for-24 display. USAO won the battle on the glass, 48-32. They turned the ball over 16 times, while UNTD committed 15 turnovers.
 
Alexia Corrales scored a double-double with a team-high 24 points and 16 rebounds. Hannah Harris had 16 boards to match the game-lead. Ashley Gonzlez was the other double-digit scorer for USAO with 10 points.
 
The win snapped a six-game losing streak head-to-head between these programs and was the first win for UNTD at Drover Fieldhouse. The other victory for the Trailblazers was the first meeting in Dallas, 62-59, on November 18, 2021.
 
UNT Dallas returns to the DFW area and will be down the highway to Waxahachie to face Nelson on Saturday with a 2:00 p.m. tip-off.
 
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