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Photo Recap WBB vs. LCU Senior Day
65
Louisiana Christian LCU 5-23, 4-18
82
Winner UNT Dallas UNTD 11-13, 10-12
Louisiana Christian LCU
5-23, 4-18
65
Final
82
UNT Dallas UNTD
11-13, 10-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Louisiana Christian LCU 13 19 17 16 65
UNT Dallas UNTD 13 26 15 28 82

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

UNTD Women's Basketball has Successful Senior Day

CEDAR HILL, Texas – "Senior Day" was a successful outcome for University of North Texas at Dallas women's basketball, who closed the regular season with an 82-65 victory over Louisiana Christian on Saturday at Trinity Leadership Public School. In front of its largest crowd of the season, the quartet of seniors: ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas), Allysa Pendley (Waco, Texas), Kaylyn Minor (Garland, Texas), and Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) were part of the starting five and had their own supporting contingents to watch an exciting final home game.
 
The group was recognized after the game as part of the UNT Dallas Athletics Senior Day presentation.
 
Also in attendance was a special guest group known as Lady Rising Allstars, who are a team coached by UNTD's Lauren Pete (Dallas, Texas). Coach Lauren received little ovations each time she had the ball and was able to give the young fans plenty to cheer for as the Trailblazers swept the final home stand and secured the sixth seed in the Red River Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament.
 
The Trailblazers sit 11-13 overall and 10-12 in conference play for seventh place in the RRAC standings. (North American is not eligible for the conference tournament). LCU ends its season at 5-23 and 4-18.
 
UNT Dallas won its highest number of games in a conference this season with 10. The program in its first year with the RRAC also returned to the conference tournament for the first time since 2021-22, when it was the No. 10 Seed in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
 
UNT Dallas will play at No. 3 Seed Texas A&M-Texarkana on Wednesday, February 25, at 5:30 p.m. RRAC Women's Basketball Tournament Central
 


The Trailblazers were led by ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas) with 14 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and four steals, as she was the top offensive scorer in both home contests this week. Yeldell maintained top place in the conference with 119 season assists and has shattered the season record from 2024-25 by Skye Dugan (104).
 
Myles followed with 13 points, going 5-of-9 from the floor and 3-of-5 from three-point territory. Pendley and Minor each had good scoring performances on their senior games with Yeldell by posting 12 and 11, respectively. De'Asia Johnson matched a team-high seven rebounds with Yeldell and Minor.  


 
The Trailblazers were in a back-and-forth battle throughout the game and trailed by 10 in the opening half. They corrected things late in the second quarter to go up at halftime by seven. After the Wildcats evaporated a double-digit lead in the second half, the home team pulled away in the final minutes of the fourth quarter with a 28-16 scoring advantage and ending the regular season on an outstanding note.
 
UNT Dallas shot 48.5 percent (32-66), which gave them the fifth contest to eclipse 30 made field goals. This includes both meetings against LCU, which the team swept in the regular season, as well as two in a sweep against Southwest. The season-high for successful field goals was last Thursday at Jarvis Christian (36), which resulted in a season-high 87 points. The team eclipsed 80 points for the fourth time on Saturday.
 
Both home games resulted in seven successful three-pointers and the team went 11-for-18 at the free throw line.
 
UNTD eclipsed 20 assists a fourth time this year and were one away from tying the season-high mark that was achieved twice. Both teams had 41 rebounds, while UNT Dallas picked up 18 steals and turned the ball over 22 times. The Wildcats had 26 turnovers and grabbed 13 steals. The Trailblazers held a 7-6 edge on blocked shots, as Channing Beauvais (Paradise, Texas) led the team with three and compiled seven over the home stand.
 
The Trailblazers held a 28-25 advantage on points off turnovers, with a 16-2 lead in the final 10 minutes. Both teams had 14 second chance points, points in paint (36-28) and fastbreak points (13-8) were on the home team's side for advantages.
 
LCU was led by Kylei Leblanc with a 20-point, 12-rebound double-double. Carlea Owens tallied 19 points and snatched eight boards. The visitors shot 37.1 percent (23-62), were 4-of-9 (44.4 percent) from three, and 15-for-26 at the free throw line.
 
The Trailblazers started the game shooting 33.3 percent from the floor in the first quarter but corrected to over 45 percent the remainder of the contest. This included shooting north of 50 percent in the second and fourth quarters, which saw the Trailblazers outscore LCU 54-35.
 
Neither team could gain much advantage in the opening 10 minutes, as the largest lead for both teams was two points and at the end of the duration it was a 13-13 game.
 
A 10-0 run started two minutes of the second quarter, and it appeared the Trailblazers "Senior Day" festivities had a sour taste looming, but the home team turned things around quickly. A 12-2 run for UNT Dallas that was highlighted by trifectas from Yeldell and Johnson swung the pendulum towards the home team with a 27-all result. The streak extended to 15 points, as Pendley got a fastbreak layup with an assist coming from Beauvais. The forward was fouled and converted on the free throw to complete the three-point play and go up 32-27 with four and a half minutes before halftime.
 
A minute later, Yeldell broke a 30-all score with a layup, Pendley split at the line, Johnson dropped a jumper and Minor had an offensive rebound to get putback to close a 37-30 advantage and two minutes before the break. Yeldell had a jumper make the lead raise to eight (39-31) with a minute left. One-of-two free throws by the Wildcats closed the half with the Trailblazers up 39-32.
In the third quarter, the Wildcats outscored UNTD by a pair of points. The way the period started that would seem unbelievable, as the Trailblazers scored nine points and defense suffocated LCU to zero points through four minutes at the start of the third. A 16-point Trailblazers lead (48-32) was erased in a blink with 15-0 run occurring from 6:01 to 2:08 and making it a one-point affair. Beauvais had the magic stroke and Murphy-Showers made her one field goal attempt to lift the Trailblazers on top by five. Beauvais capped UNTD's scoring with a jumper, but the Wildcats trailed by five (54-49) with the last layup being good with 19 seconds left.
 
A jumper by the Wildcats made it a one possession game, but the Trailblazers rattled the next nine points off capped by a trey by Myles to extend the margin to double-digits (12). LCU came withing nine points (69-60) with three and a half minutes remaining, but Myles had another three that sparked an 8-0 scoring streak that tied the largest lead of the game for UNTD at 17 points. It was all cheers down the stretch, as Yeldell intercepted a long Wildcats pass for her final steal of the game and Pete had a three and layup for the final five points of the game that had her bleacher section on its feet.
 
Overall, a successful day for the Trailblazers women's basketball program and fans that came out.
 
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