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Photo Recap at Our Lady of the Lake
Photo Courtesy of Jared Horn
73
Winner UNTD UNT 0
63
OLLU OLU 0
Winner
UNTD UNT
0
73
Final
63
OLLU OLU
0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
UNTD UNT 16 14 20 23 73
OLLU OLU 16 12 13 22 63

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Yeldell Career-high 30 points; Johnson double-double lift Trailblazers past Saints

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas) dropped a career-high 30 points and became the third player from University of North Texas at Dallas women's basketball to eclipse that scoring plateau in history to headline a 73-63 victory on Saturday. Yeldell scored her highest total in the third quarter with 12, which proved to be the widest margin of scoring between the teams, as UNT Dallas edged Our Lady of the Lake University to split the Red River Athletic Conference road trip.
 
The win improves the Trailblazers to 3-2 overall and 2-1 in conference. The Saints fell to 1-7 and 0-3 in conference play.
 
Yeldell was the highlight offensively by shooting 12-of-20 from the floor and 5-of-9 from three-point range. The point guard dished a game-high six assists (nearly matching OLLU's team total of eight) and tied a team-high four steals.
 
De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) mustered a double-double with 13 points and matched a career-high 14 rebounds. The forward previously had 14 boards on January 11, 2025, at John Brown. Johnson did swipe two steals.
 
Jade Myles (Dallas, Texas) sandwiched between Yeldell and Johnson for top trio of scorers with a season-high 16 points. Nine of those came in the fourth quarter and she tied a team-high in steals with four. That total matched her highest number of thefts this year.
 
The Trailblazers shot 39.7 percent (25-63) from the field and were 8-of-24 (33.3 percent) from three. They shot under half from the free throw line with a 15-for-32 result. UNTD took advantage of second chance points (17-4) and fast break points (22-8), which included 8-0 in the last 10 minutes. Points off turnovers belonged to the guests with a 20-14 advantage and points in the paint was close with the slight lead to UNTD, 26-24.  
 
The teams were even on the glass with 42 each.
Our Lady of the Lake was led by Shayla Dede with 24 points and four steals. Alexandra Westerdijk-Martin registered a double-double with 16 points and 12 boards.
 
It was not an easy start for the Trailblazers, as they trailed early throughout the opening quarter. The Saints got a triple by Anissa Cardona to make it a 14-7 advantage with 1:45 minutes left in the first. Yeldell got started on her torrid scoring with eight of the final UNTD points of the quarter and had two treys with a Myles free throw filled between them to conclude the frame at 16-16. The Trailblazers had led by a point to start the game, but otherwise trailed until the Yeldell trifecta with 20 seconds left.
 
It was another quick lead for the Trailblazers to start the second quarter, as Ke'Liyah Anderson (Dallas, Texas) tallied a layup. Four different Trailblazers touched the ball in that possession as Johnson missed the first shot, Yeldell rebounded, and Myles dished an assist to Anderson. After a layup off a steal by Isabella Jaramillo from OLLU traded points, a pair of free throws by Channing Beauvais (Paradise, Texas) pushed UNTD up by two again. A trey by Dede flipped the score two minutes into the quarter, and rolled to an eventual six point lead (26-20) after eight straight points and six and a half minutes until intermission. A 10-2 run by the Trailblazers countered the momentum and a triple at the end of the half by Yeldell propelled them up 30-28. The surge started on a steal by Kayden Riley (Dallas, Texas) that led to an eventual layup by Johnson. Myles had a three to cut the margin to one (26-25) and after two OLLU free throws, Yeldell swung the pendulum with the final five points that were powered on a steal to a fastbreak layup and the last shot prior to the buzzer.
 
The Saints leveled the score out of the gate in the third, but Allysa Pendley (Waco, Texas) made two free throws, then Yeldell and Myles sprinted for fastbreak layups to build a six-point edge (36-30) through just beyond two minutes of the quarter. Another OLLU spurt knotted the scoreboard at 37 with 3:22 remaining in the third. Yeldell drilled a go-ahead jumper that sparked a game-changing 13-4 run for the Trailblazers to lead 50-41 after three quarters. Yeldell tossed in 10 of her 12 points in the last three minutes. Myles, Pendley, and Johnson each added a free throw in the run.
 
A trey by Myles and jumper by Yeldell started the final stanza and ballooned the lead to the largest of the game by either side at 14 (55-41) for UNT Dallas. The Saints slashed the deficit to as tight as six on two moments in the middle of the quarter. The final timestamp was with 3:49 left and a 61-55 UNTD lead. Johnson split at the free throw line and Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) scored on breakaway layup. After two free throws by the Saints, Myles split at the line and Johnson tickled the twine with about two minutes left to go up by double-digits again. Myles got the margin to 13 points (70-57) and the Saints gave one final push to pull within eight points after three free throws by Dede. It was too late as UNT Dallas put the game away.
 
This game marks the seventh time UNTD women's basketball has had an individual break 30 points. ZyUnn Cormier accomplished the feat in five games with four in 2022-23 and once in 2023-24. Cormier holds the all-time game record with 36 (at Central Christian 2/18/23). Mya Bills set a career-high for herself with 33 points in 2024-25 and was the last time this feat was achieved.
 
UNT Dallas returns home to Trinity Leadership for a pair of RRAC matchups next week. The Trailblazers host Xavier University of Louisiana on December 11 at 5:30 p.m. and North American University on December 13 at 1:00 p.m.
 
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