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Photo Recap WBB vs. Jarvis Christian
47
Jarvis Christian JARVIS C 3-13, 2-8
74
Winner UNT Dallas UNT DALL 7-5, 6-4
Jarvis Christian JARVIS C
3-13, 2-8
47
Final
74
UNT Dallas UNT DALL
7-5, 6-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Jarvis Christian JARVIS C 15 10 11 11 47
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 20 22 15 17 74

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Trailblazers continue 2026 with 3rd Straight Double-Digit Victory

DALLAS – 2026 continues to roll a positive direction as University of North Texas at Dallas women's basketball won a third time in as many tries, defeating Jarvis Christian 74-47 on Saturday afternoon at Trinity Leadership Public School. The winning streak is a season-long for the Trailblazers and first time to achieve a streak that long since December 10-16 versus Oklahoma City, John Brown, and Southwestern Assemblies of God in 2022.
 
The Trailblazers have outscored their opponents 218-147, which exemplifies the dominate run they have been on since the calendar turned to a new year. Saturday was another instance of strong UNTD defense limiting Jarvis Christian to 30 percent (15-50) shooting from the field and delivering enough offense to outscore the opponent in all quarters.
 
The triumph lifts UNT Dallas back to two games above .500 with a 7-5 record and 6-4 RRAC record. It matches the highest total amount of games above .500 this season and a third time. Jarvis Christian drops to 3-13 overall and 2-8 in RRAC.
 
De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) was the Trailblazers leading scorer a fourth straight game with 16 points. She matched a game-high and was the only UNTD player to reach double figures, as she went 7-of-17 from the field, 2-of-7 from three, and swiped five steals. After starting the home week tying a personal-best six steals, Johnson added five more to give her four games to reach that plateau.
 
Channing Beauvais (Paradise, Texas) chipped in nine points, five rebounds, and a season-high four steals. She was the team's second leading scorer in both games and overall on the home stand with 20 combined.
 
Jade Myles (Dallas, Texas) matched game-high five steals with her career-best and added five boards and six points. A trio of Trailblazers tallied eight points: ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas), Lauren Pete (Rockwall, Texas), and Khalaizah Martin (Dallas, Texas) – a personal-best for the freshman.
 
The Trailblazers eclipsed 20 steals consecutive games this week and for the first time on the year. The 21 total was seven shy of the team tying the single-game record on Thursday versus Texas College. The Trailblazers shot 38.7 percent (29-75), tied a season-most eight made trifectas, and were 8-for-11 at the free throw line. They matched eight made threes in an away game at Our Lady of the Lake University (Dec. 6, 2025). It was all Trailblazers in this game, with a 30-2 differential on points off turnovers, 36-18 differential on points in the paint, and 35-8 differential on points from the bench. They scored eight fastbreak points and did not surrender any.
 
For the second game in a row, at least 10 different players etched a point in the scoring column.
 
Jarvis Christian made four three-pointers and were 13-for-24 at the free throw line. Carmela Hayden was the other player to score double figures and matched the game-high 16 points, while adding seven boards. Shamya Champ garnered 10 rebounds, as the Bulldogs edged UNTD 49-41, which helped a 12-9 advantage on second chance points.


 
The Bulldogs did challenge early with a few slight leads in the first quarter. Three free throws on different trips helped JCU go up 3-2 in the early minute of the game. After layups by Pete and Johnson, the Bulldogs answered with five points on two baskets by Hayden with the go-ahead trey with 5:18 left (8-6). About three minutes later saw the Bulldogs' greatest lead stretch to six points (14-8). Consecutive treys by Johnson and Yeldell knotted the game in less than 30 seconds. The senior point guard followed her teammates triple with a steal and pulled up to sink one of her own. A minute passed and Allysa Pendley (Waco, Texas) drained a rare three of her own to propel the team in front for the first time since Beauvais' opening basket. A JCU free throw snapped the 10-point run, but another Pendley layup and free throw by Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) closed the quarter with UNTD up 20-15 and on a 12-0 scoring swing.
 
This momentum carried into the next 10 minutes, as the Trailblazers put JCU into a double-digit deficit that eventually reached as many as 18 points (4:39) on a layup by Martin and sat at 17 points multiple occasions. Altogether, the Trailblazers edged Jarvis Christian 22-10 in the second quarter. It took three minutes for UNTD to push to a 10-point gap (27-17) in the stanza. Beauvais opened a 13-point streak for the home team. Johnson had the layup to push the lead to double-digits, followed by baskets from Pendley, Yeldell, Myles, and the aforementioned Martin. A trifecta by Hayden ended the run with just under three minutes left. Each side countered baskets until the break, as Murphy-Showers had the final score for three points and sent her team into the break up 42-25.
 
Jarvis Christian's Sidney Minor scored six points on a trio of layups in the opening three minutes to reduce the margin to 11 points. At 6:20 left on the clock, Myles swiped a steal and completed the fastbreak to end the dry spell and sent UNTD on a 15-5 scoring stretch the rest of the third. A similar sequence for the transfer guard occurred with 1:42 left to lift the Trailblazers to their largest lead of the game at that juncture, 55-34. The 21-point gap was matched to conclude the quarter at 57-36.
 
It was all Trailblazers in the fourth quarter leading to a 17-11 advantage on the scoreboard in that span. The spread never closed under 20 points the rest of the game, while a free throw by Abigail Ramos (Irving, Texas) touched the lead to the largest of the game at 28 points (72-44) with 54 seconds left.
 
UNT Dallas goes on the road next Thursday and Saturday for a two RRAC games that will feature schools within a few minutes of each other. The Trailblazers are at Louisiana Christian University on Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m. and LSU-Alexandria on Jan. 17 at 1:00 p.m.
 
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