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Photo Recap WBB vs. LSUS
77
Winner LSU Shreveport LSU SHRE 20-2, 16-0
57
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 8-11, 7-10
Winner
LSU Shreveport LSU SHRE
20-2, 16-0
77
Final
57
UNT Dallas UNT DALL
8-11, 7-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
LSU Shreveport LSU SHRE 14 21 30 12 77
UNT Dallas UNT DALL 15 11 14 17 57

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | nathanyacovissi

Johnson Continues to Shine for Trailblazers; Latest shining moment against RRAC's Unbeaten LSUS

CEDAR HILL, Texas – A strong first quarter from University of North Texas at Dallas women's basketball highlighted an overall good effort against first-place and Red River Athletic Conference unbeaten LSU-Shreveport on Thursday night at Trinity Leadership Public School.
 
The Trailblazers went traded points with LSU-Shreveport and held a 15-14 lead through the first quarter. A 10-point swing in the second quarter and another double-digit advantage in the third quarter pushed the Pilots ahead for the rest of the game and seized control of the conference win.
 
UNT Dallas fell to 8-11 overall and 7-10 in league play as it suffered its sixth straight loss. LSUS improved to 20-2 and captured its 16th win in league play.
 
De'Asia Johnson (Dallas, Texas) paced the Trailblazers offense with 25 points, shooting 9-of-21 from the field with four three-pointers and three-for-four at the free throw line. Johnson tallied her third-highest point-total of the campaign and raised her season average to 16.7 points. Johnson also garnered six rebounds, two assists and steals.
 
Sanaa Murphy-Showers (Plano, Texas) was the next highest scorer with nine points behind a trio of triples that occurred in the second half.
 
ShanDrea Yeldell (Dallas, Texas) picked up seven assists and seven steals.
 
Allysa Pendley (Waco, Texas) matched a team-high six rebounds.
 
UNTD did force the Pilots into a season-high 34 turnovers.
 
UNT Dallas shot 33.8 percent (22-8) from the field with seven three-pointers. The team was 6-for-14 at the free throw line. The Trailblazers notched 23 rebounds, 11 assists, four blocks and 19 steals. They turned the ball over 19 times.
 
LSUS shot 51 percent (26-51) from the field, including three triples, and 22-for-29 at the free throw line. The Pilots logged 49 rebounds, 12 assists, and 12 steals.
 
Selma Markisic and Toni Coleman were top scorers for the Pilots with 23 points each. Coleman notched a double-double with 10 boards and dished four assists and swiped five steals to lead the opposition.
 
Down by six points out of the gate, the Trailblazers closed the first quarter on an 11-4 run through the last 3:54 minutes. A steal by Channing Beauvais (Paradise, Texas) led to Jade Myles (Dallas, Texas) scoring a layup on the fastbreak to cut the deficit to 10-7. After LSUS scored its final field goal of the frame at 2:40, Johnson knocked down consecutive trifectas to push the Trailblazers on top for the first time in the game at 13-12. Two free throws flipped the score in LSUS's favor, and a layup by Ke'Liyah Anderson (Dallas, Texas) wrapped up the first quarter scoring with the home team up 15-14.
 
After another basket to exchange leads for LSUS, Johnson buried another three-pointer with an assist by Yeldell. The senior guard found the team's leading scorer often for much of the team's offense tonight, as the tandem linked up on the next play with Johnson scoring a layup on the fastbreak to push the UNTD lead to 20-16. Around six minutes left in the second, Anderson picked a steal and broke away for an easy layup to maintain a four-point advantage for the Trailblazers (22-18).
 
The Pilots shifted the momentum with an old fashioned three-point play by Katie Ambrose and then a triple by Celina Vilcinskas to knot the score at 24 with 5:20 left. The Trailblazers countered to keep pace the next several plays, but a 9-0 run to close the remaining 2:31 minutes lifted LSUS to a 35-26 lead.
 
Johnson got the Trailblazers on the board to start the third quarter and closed the margin to seven points with Murphy-Showers dishing a dime to her. Murphy-Showers was perfect behind the three-point arc with two triples that headlined an otherwise LSUS dominant quarter for the game. The Pilots were 10-of-12 from the field and 9-for-12 at the free throw line to orchestrate a 30-14 scoring swing that manifested a double-digit lead.
 
The Trailblazers never gave up and were persistent with their full court press that is a tenacious trait to the team all season. They outdid the Pilots 17-12 in the final 10 minutes. A jumper by Pendley cut the deficit from 25 points to 16 (67-51) in 3:09 minutes to start the fourth. LSUS answered with eight points to keep the comeback from creeping closer, but UNTD can hold its head high with how it competed with a team receiving votes in the national poll.
 
UNT Dallas concludes a three-game home stand on Saturday versus Texas A&M-Texarkana with a 1:00 p.m. tip-off.
 
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