Box Score by Brian DeCandia, sports information
graduate assistant
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PEMBROKE, N.C.
– The Georgia College women's basketball
team (13-5, 5-4 PBC) salvaged the weekend trip with a last second
victory over UNC Pembroke (8-11, 4-7 PBC), 48-45.
After a halftime lead for GC, The Braves came
out fired up starting the second stanza on a 9-2 run. Dominique
Huffin (Tucker, Ga.) stopped the
bleeding with a three-point play to knot the game at 27. There were
five ties and only two lead changes in the second half.
After Chimere Jordan
(Gray, Ga.) lost a pass out of bounds, the Braves tied the
game with two free throws at 16 seconds left to play. Jordan took
the ball up the floor and drove the lane, collapsing the defense
and kicking it to the corner for a buzzer-beating three-ball by
Huffin to end the game and send the Bobcats out of North Carolina
with a win.
For the first time this season senior guard
Jordan did not lead the team in scoring. Instead another senior
leader stepped up in the clutch, as Huffin was the game's star,
producing her first double-double of the season. She went off for a
game-high 19 points and 14 rebounds shooting 4-of-11 from three and
5-of-7 from the charity stripe. Jordan finished with 11 points and
eight rebounds. Also in double-digits for the 'Cats, was Karisma
Boykin (Carrollton, Ga.) with 10 points and five
rebounds.
The Bobcats shot 17-of-63 (.270) from the field but the story
of the game was rebounding as GC out-rebounded UNCP 49-33, grabbing
22 offensive rebounds. GC lost the turnover battle 16-15. The
Braves shot 17-of-51 (.333) from the field. Talena Faison was the
only player in double-digits for UNCP with 16 points.
The Bobcats travel home to play PBC foe North
Georgia for Relay for Life Night Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 5:30
p.m.
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