SUNDAY'S SCORES
SIUE 55, Southern 53
East Tennessee State 57,
@Morehead State 53
SIUE 55, SOUTHERN 53
TOLEDO, Ohio - SIUE women's basketball used a run to end the first half and another to open the second half to Southern University 55-53 in the consolation game of the Glass City Tournament.
SIUE, which improved to 4-4 overall, used a 7-0 run to end the first half and another 9-0 run to start the second half. The Cougars were down by as many as 12 points in the first half to the Jaguars, 0-7. It was the second double-digit comeback of the season for the SIUE Head Coach Paula Buscher and the Cougars.
Berry led SIUE in scoring with 14 points. The senior center also grabbed three steals and three rebounds.
Courtney Kenner returned from injury with nine points, including a three-pointer that put the Cougars up by 10 points with 4:36 to play.
Southern made a run on the Cougars with a three-pointer from Kendra Coleman and a three-point play from Jasmine Jefferson. Coleman added another three-pointer with 1:05 left to pull the Jaguars withing one at 54-53.
Kenner added a free throw with 22 seconds left, and the Cougars held on for the victory.
SIUE's bench outscored Southern's bench 24-15. CoCo Moore scored nine points and tied Tierny Austin for the team high in rebounds with seven. Jessie Wendt scored seven points. Michaela Herrod added four while Jazmin Hill and Ashley Capotosto chipped in two points each.
The Cougars now have three of their next four games at home. It begins Wednesday with Sacramento State in a 7 p.m. matchup followed by a second matchup this season with IPFW Saturday at 7 p.m.
EAST TENNESSEE STATE 57, MORHEAD STATE 53
MOREHEAD, Ky. - The East Tennessee State women's basketball team overcame 29 turnovers by knocking down 85 percent at the free-throw line en route to a 57-53 win over Morehead State on Sunday afternoon at Johnson Arena.
ETSU won its second straight game to even its 2012-13 record to 2-2, while MSU dropped its fifth consecutive game and dipped to 1-6. The Lady Bucs outscored MSU 23-12 at the free throw line.
Morehead State fell behind by its largest deficit, 45-36, with 3:38 left but clawed its way back and trailed by just one, 45-44, after freshman Kelsey Funderburgh’s second three-pointer. The Lady Bucs knocked down 12 of their last 13 charity tosses to hold on.
ETSU also had a 30-9 rebounding edge in the final 20 minutes, finishing with 46 boards to the Eagles’ 26. MSU outscored the Lady Bucs, 32-20, in the paint, but MSU was only 3-of-25 from three-point range.
Destiny Mitchell (15), Shawn Randall (11) and Maria Bond (10) reached double figures in scoring for the visitors. Serena Clark grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds, while Bond pulled down nine.
Sophomore guard Almesha Jones scored a season-high 15 points, one short of her career-high, and nabbed a career-best six steals. Junior guard Terrice Robinson totaled 12 points, while sophomore guard Whitney Kyle yanked down a career-best seven rebounds. Funderburgh tallied a career-high nine points, hitting all of MSU’s three-pointers.
Morehead State shot 35 percent (19-of-55) overall and held the visitors to 33 percent (16-of-49).
The Eagles held their final lead at 30-29 with 12:20 left following a Jones’ layup, but the Lady Bucs went on a 10-2 run over the next four minutes to pull ahead 39-32.
Morehead State hosts Western Kentucky on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET