NEWBERRY - The Newberry women's basketball team fall at home to Carson-Newman 59-78. 

After losing the opening tip, the Wolves were able to stop the Lady Eagles opening possession with a block from red-shirt freshman Erika Wiseley, which led to Newberry scoring first with a jumper by junior Kelsey Brett. The next Carson-Newman possession the Lady Eagles came back down the court and a three by Madison Bunch gave them the 3-2 advantage. Carson-Newman then went on an 8-0 run to take a 11-2 lead after that before Newberry scored their next bucket. After being held scoreless for the next five minutes, junior Keli Romas ended the drought with a three. Another three by Romas got the Wolves only being down 11-8 to make it a three point game. In the final three minutes of play the Lady Eagles outscored the Wolves 5-2 to make it 16-10 at the end of one. 

Newberry started off the second on the right foot with a four point swing in the first 1:30. Jumpers by Romas and freshman Courtney Virgo got the score to 16-14 for a two point game. Carson-Newman then went on a 10-0 run in a four minute span to re-extend their lead to 26-14, as Newberry did not score in that time frame. Romas ended that stretch by making another three to bring it back down to single digits, with a nine point difference. Kayla Marosites of the Lady Eagles put their lead back to double digits with a made jumper with 4:09 left until half. In the final four minutes of action Carson-Newman outscored Newberry by a 9-6 margin to find the Wolves down 37-23 at the end. 

Carson-Newman came out of the break by scoring the first four points of the half to extend the advantage to 41-23. Nearly three minutes of play went by before the Wolves scored their first points, which was a jumper by junior Dragana Petkovska. The next three minutes consist of each side scoring four points to make the score 45-29 with almost five minutes left in the third. Newberry than managed to go on a mini 4-0 run and force Carson-Newman to call timeout with 2:31 left in the quarter. In that final remaining time, the Lady Eagles slightly outscored the Wolves 7-6 to make it 52-39 heading into the fourth. 

Less than a minutes into the quarter, Newberry gets a big three from Virgo to get themselves within ten points. Though Carson-Newman was able to come down the court and Bunch made a three of her own and then got a layup from Harli Smith to make it a 15 point difference. After almost two minutes of no scoring, each side would trade off buckets for the next two minutes to make it 67-50. It looked like neither side was ready to give up down the stretch, until Newberry fell off slight where they allowed the Lady Eagles to go on a 6-0 run. In the final three minutes of the game the Wolves could not string together a big run, despite outscoring the Lady Eagles by a margin of 9-7. 

Top Performers:
Newberry
Keli Romas - 21 points and two rebounds
Kelsey Brett - Nine points, three steals and three rebound
Kelsey McDermott - Six points, five assists, and four rebounds

Carson-Newman
Braelyn Wykle - 24 points and three rebounds
Kayla Marosites - 15 points and 13 rebounds
Harli Smith -  15 points, eight rebounds, and four assists
 
UP NEXT:
The Wolves will be on the road this upcoming Wednesday Jan. 22nd to take on Coker. Tip-off is set for 5:30 PM