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February
23,
2008
JACKSON – In
the season finale during "Take A Kid to the Game" Day at Millsaps
College, junior Tiffany Whitmore pumped in a career-high 29
points and fellow juniors Crystal
Dickerson and LaReina Adams posted double-doubles to help the
Majors to a 73-59 win over
visiting Hendrix College on Saturday afternoon.
Millsaps finishes
the season at 7-18 overall and 4-11 in SCAC play, missing out
of the conference tournament in Conway, Ark., next weekend by
one win after failing to split a weekend road swing at Trinity
and Southwestern last weekend.
In a game that
featured 13 lead changes and eight ties, it was the Majors who
took control late in the second half by going on a 14-2 run with
8:11 remaining for their largest lead of the game at 16 points,
67-51. They traded buckets with the Warriors the final 4:12 to
come away with the 14-point victory.
Whitmore netted
18 of her career-high 29 in the second period, connecting on
6-of-10 shots from the floor in addition to five rebounds and
a pair of assists. Dickerson also had a breakout second half,
scoring 11 of her career-high 23 and grabbing eight rebounds
for a game-high 14 to post her third double-double of the year.
Millsaps shot
the ball well for the game as a team, knocking down 46 percent
from the floor, while holding Hendrix and its top player, Christina
Byler, to 34 percent. Byler entered the game averaging a team-best
19.4 ppg (second in the SCAC) and managed to score 13 points
and grab 12 rebounds despite
shooting
a poor 2-of-15 from the floor.
Kendra Anderson
(11) and Chelsey White (15) were the other Warriors in double
figures with White scoring all her points off the bench and Lindsay
Merritt falling one point shy of a double-double.
Second-year
head coach Mary Bolton and the Majors don't lose any seniors
from this year's squad and will
hit the
recruiting trails this spring to bring in a strong class in the
fall.
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