NEWBERRY- The Newberry College women’s basketball team defeated Carson-Newman University 77-69, on Saturday afternoon. Today’s win was the second time Newberry defeated the Eagles this season.

With the win, Newberry improved to 10-8 overall and 9-3 in the South Atlantic Conference while Carson-Newman fell to 13-5 overall and 7-5 in the conference.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• At the half, Samantha Creed led the team in points with 14 followed by Hannah Lepaio with six. The Wolves shot 59% from the field.
• At the end of the third quarter, Newberry had a 60-51 lead. The Wolves shot 81.8% from the line and 55.0% from the field.
• For the game, Creed finished with 19 points, two assists and two steals. Nicola Handreck finished the game with 15 points, six rebounds, seven assists, and one steal.
• Jaya Schultz finished the game with 13 points followed by Hannah Lepaio who scored 10 points.
• As a team, Newberry shot 76% from the line and 48.1% from the field.

HOW IT HAPPENED

First Quarter

Newberry didn’t get on the board until the 7:51 mark when Creed hit a 3-pointer. Creed drained another 3-pointer a minute later for a 6-5 lead over the Eagles. Both of Creed’s baskets came off a pass from Handreck.

Lepaio got on the board with back-to-back layups starting at the 4:10 mark. Lepaio’s first layup had no assist but the second layup (at 3:31) came off a pass from Emily Perry.

The last six points were all from layups made by Schultz and Meg Essex. Schultz made the first layup with 2:03 left followed by another layup with 1:43 left. Essex finished the quarter with a layup with 1:10 left.

Second Quarter

Creed started the scoring off for Newberry with a 3-pointer at the 8:43 mark. Shelby Britten hit a jumper with 7:27 left followed by a jumper from Samara Hill with 6:52 left. Hill hit another jumper less than a minute later for a 23-19 lead.

Handreck increased the Wolves lead to 36-28 with a 3-pointer at the 1:53 mark. Essex closed out the second quarter with a layup off a pass from Handreck for a 38-31 lead.

Third Quarter

Essex opened the quarter with a 3-point play at the 8:19 mark. Essex made her layup off a pass from Hill but was fouled going up. Essex was sent to the free throw line and drained the shot. Handreck went 2-for-2 from the line with 7:14 left followed by Creed who also went 2-for-2 from the line.

At the 6:20 mark, Kirsten Dunsmore made a jumper off a pass from Creed. Dunsmore then went 1-for-1 at the line with five minutes left.

Schultz went 1-for-1 at the line with 1:41 left followed by Handreck who went 2-for-2. In the last three seconds of the quarter Handreck drained a 3-pointer.

Fourth Quarter

Handreck hit a 3-pointer at 7:22 followed by a layup from Lepaio at 5:29. Schultz was sent to the line at 5:04 and went 2-for-2. From the 2:26 mark to the 2:17 mark, Schultz scored four points. Schultz hit a layup with 2:26 left and then went 2-for-2 at the line with 2:17 left to play.

Britten went 1-for-2 at the line with 1:06 left followed by Creed who went 2-for-2 with 36 seconds left.  The last three points scored were all from free throws. Handreck went 2-for-2 at the line followed by Creed who went 1-for-2 in the last 11 seconds of the game.

UP NEXT
The Wolves will travel to Charlotte, N.C. on Wednesday, January 27 to play Queens University of Charlotte. The conference matchup with begin at 6 p.m.