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December
30, 2006
SOUTH PADRE, Texas -- In
the South Padre Island Shootout hosted by Sport Tours International,
Millsaps dropped its seventh-straight decision, falling to No.
11 Howard
Payne 76-42 on Friday and Ramapo 54-50 Saturday afternoon.
Millsaps (1-8,
0-2 SCAC) proved to be no match for Howard Payne (9-0), with
the Lady Jackets winning their ninth-consecutive game and seventh
by 30 or more points.
Howard Payne
took advantage of 26 bench points, 18 points off turnovers,
14 second chance points and 12 different scorers en route to
the 34-point win.
Stacey Blalock
led all scorers with 18 points in 22 minutes, while Meia Daniels
chipped in with 15 points and
a team-high five boards.
The Majors continue
their struggles from the floor and the search to find a role
player, as they couldn't overcome a 21-point halftime deficit
and 28 percent shooting
for the game.
Senior forward
Deborah Sturgis led all Majors with 12 points on 4-of-11 shooting,
while freshman guard Megan Bauerle had a season/career-high eight
points in 14 minutes off the bench.
In Saturday's
tournament closer for Millsaps, the Majors surrendered a 7-point
halftime lead and shot 2-of-17 from beyond the arc to give the
Roadrunners their second win of the season and first since Nov.
17.
Ramapo (2-7,
0-2 NJAC) was horrible from the floor in the first half, shooting
a dismal 16 percent (5-of-31). The Roadrunners, however,
rebounded in the second half to outscore the Majors 37-26 and
shoot 39
percent, thanks in large part to Keona Palmer's eight points
on 3-of-7 shooting.
With 3:18
remaining in the first half, LaReina Adams' layup gave the Majors
a 19-17 advantage, a lead which they held for nearly 23 minutes
and throughout the second half.
But with
58 seconds left in regulation, Palmer's lay in off
Kelly Bartz's miss knotted the game at 50-50.
The Majors
attempted to retake the lead with 43 seconds remaining, but senior
Leslie Frese missed a layup that would have given Millsaps
a two point
advantage and then committed a foul to send Bartz to the free
throw line.
Bartz missed
the first and then swished in the second to give the Roadrunners
a 51-50 edge, thus forcing the Majors to use a 30-second timeout.
After the timeout,
two consecutive misses by Smith and Sturgis and back-to-back
fouls by the pair allowed Ramapo to ice the game at the free
throw line.
Adams picked
up her fifth double-double of the season in the loss, chipping
in 13 points and a team-high 15 rebounds (eight offensive), while
Smith and Frese added 10 points apiece.
Junior Crystal
Dickerson also had 11 boards as the Majors out rebounded the
Roadrunners
55-46 for the game.
Millsaps looks
to snap a seven-game losing skid next weekend, traveling to
conference opponent Rhodes College on Jan. 6 and non-conference
opponent
Rust College on Jan. 8. Saturday's game tips off at 3 p.m., with
Monday's contest slated for 5 p.m.
The Majors
will then return home for a three-game homestand Jan. 10-14,
playing host to the University of Dallas, Oglethorpe and Sewanee.
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