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59
University of North Texas - Dallas NTD 0
71
Winner Texas A&M - San Antonio TAMUSA 0
University of North Texas - Dallas NTD
0
59
Final
71
Texas A&M - San Antonio TAMUSA
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
University of North Texas - Dallas NTD 17 12 16 14 59
Texas A&M - San Antonio TAMUSA 22 9 18 22 71

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Women's Basketball Drops first Game on San Antonio Swing

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – University of North Texas at Dallas women's basketball fell 71-59 against Texas A&M-San Antonio on Thursday night at TAMUSA Gymnasium. Despite a slow start, the Trailblazers battled back quickly and trailed by five after one quarter. They were down three at halftime, as the team's traded leads twice and tied each other once. The Trailblazers were within striking distance most of the night, but an eight-point advantage in the fourth quarter saw the Jaguars pull away down the stretch.
 
UNTD snapped its two-game winning streak and is now 2-2 overall and 1-1 in Red River Athletic Conference action. Texas A&M-San Antonio improved to 5-3 and 2-0 in RRAC.
 
The Trailblazers struggled shooting overall from the field with a 29.2 percent (21-72) result. This included 20 percent (3-15) from three-point range. The difference between the teams came at the charity stripe, where UNTD was 14-of-22 compared to 21-of-26 by the home Jaguars. Texas A&M-San Antonio slumped shooting 23-of-66 (34.8 percent) and made just one more three-pointer (4-26).
 
Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) led the team with 12 points and scored a season-high. She was 3-of-6 overall and drained a pair of three-pointers in as many attempts. Murphy-Showers also was 4-for-5 at the line. Her scoring total matched a season-high during the 2024-25 campaign and nearly a year from today with 12 points against Central Christian on December 7, 2024.
 
The other double-digit scorer was Jade Myles (Dallas, Texas) with 10 points. De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) nearly collected a double-double despite an off-shooting night with nine points and grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds.
 
ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas) tallied seven points, seven steals, and a personal-high nine boards. Allysa Pendley (Waco, Texas) garnered seven boards as the team combined for 52 rebounds. The team record in a single game is 60 from February 1, 2024 (vs. Central Christian).
 
Ke'Liyah Anderson (Dallas, Texas) and Channing Beauvais (Paradise, Texas) chipped in seven points each.
 
Texas A&M-San Antonio swiped 24 steals with all nine players collecting at least one. The Jaguars earned 33 points off turnovers, which UNTD committed 35 of. Typically aggressive and netting a positive turnover ratio, the Trailblazers did get TAMUSA into 29 miscues and swiped a season-most 19 steals. Yeldell and Johnson combined for 12 steals. The Trailblazers only scored 14 points off turnovers and this included 12 in the second half. Teams were even on second chance points (18) and points in the paint (30). The Jaguars ran in this game with a 22-11 edge on fastbreak points.
 
Aniya Lewis notched a double-double with 18 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Jaguars. Evelyn Lorenzo scored 17 points and had a team-high five steals. Hailee Brandon added 10 points.
 
The first two minutes of the contest belonged to the home team with a 9-0 lead starting things. Kayden Riley (Dallas, Texas) snuffed the run with an old fashioned three-point play to give UNTD three points. Eventually with 3:18 left in the first, Beauvais knocked in a trey to make it a three-point gap (15-12). A few players later, the score moved to within two points as Pendley completed a three-point play to make it 17-15 and just under three to go. The next five points went to TAMUSA before Johnson capped the quarter with a jumper.  The Trailblazers' bench contributed 10 points that frame.
 
After a quiet two and a half minutes Yeldell buried a triple to make it a four-point margin for the first UNTD points (24-20). Texas A&M-San Antonio countered with a trey to maintain a same gap in the early going. The gap never spread beyond that margin in the second quarter as sides traded points most of the way. The biggest surge in the stanza was with four minutes a steal by Yeldell found Beauvais on the fastbreak jumper to cut the score to 29-28. Murphy-Showers had hit a pair of free throws moments prior to that. The Jaguars scored the next basket and Anderson gave UNTD a free throw to close the final 1:57 minutes at a 31-29 home lead.
 
A steal by Yeldell found Myles on the breakaway to knot the score immediately out of intermission. Another steal by Pendley went for an assist to Yeldell for the Trailblazers first leading basket (33-31) of the night. UNT Dallas relinquished the slight edge and trailed by five after seven straight points (38-33) minutes later. With 6:26 left in the third, Johnson sparked a 6-0 swing on a layup. Myles tacked on the layup and Johnson's offensive rebound putback flipped the score a final time in favor of the guests (39-38) with just over five to play. Texas A&M-San Antonio answered by going on an 11-3 scoring swing. The third quarter closed at 11-6 thanks to a trifecta by Murphy-Showers to make it 49-45.
 
The early part of the fourth quarter featured a competitive back-and-forth, as UNTD reduced the margin to a point (52-51) after a jumper by Anderson. Myles had the steal prior to that field goal made. A 19-8 run over the last 7:12 of the game proved too much for the Trailblazers.
 
UNT Dallas remains on the road for Our Lady of the Lake on Saturday with a 1:00 p.m. tip-off.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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