Saturday,
December 1, 2001
Presbyterian
Basketball Defeats Livingstone 88-40
Hickory, N.C. - Senior Toni Leopard (Ninety-Six, S.C.) scored 29 points as the Presbyterian College women's basketball team defeated Livingstone College 88-40.
The
#18-ranked Blue Hose improved their season record to 6-0
overall while the Blue Bears fell to 1-5.
Presbyterian will be back in action on Tuesday as they
travel to the University of S.C.-Aiken for a 7 p.m. tip-off.
Livingstone will take a nine-day break before hosting
conference-foe Virginia State on Dec. 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Neither
team could manage a point until almost three minutes had past
in the first half. Presbyterian
scored the first two points of the game at the 17:02 mark and
never looked back. For
the first half, the Blue Hose shot a remarkable 75.8 percent
from the field while the Blue Bears connected on only 30.3
percent of their shots. Leopard's
20 first half points propelled the Blue Hose to commanding
55-25 lead after the first half.
The
Blue Hose did not let up in the second half as they pushed
their lead to as many as 51 points.
The Blue Hose held Livingstone to 15 points on 16.1%
shooting and outrebounding them 27 to 18 in the second half.
For
the game the Blue hose held Livingstone to 23.4 percent
shooting from the field and outrebounded them 46-32.
PC also outshot the Blue Bears from the three-point
line as they made 5 of 12 (41.7 percent) compared to 2 of 18
(11.1 percent) for Livingstone.
The Blue Bears were outscored in the paint 38 to 22,
and they only scored 11 points off turnovers compared to 27
for PC.
In
just 27 minutes of play, Leopard grabbed four rebounds to go
along with her 29 points. Freshman Dana
Birnie (Suwanee, Ga.) came off the bench to score 18
points and grab seven rebounds.
Sophomore guard Bonnie
Werner (Kennesaw, Ga.) contributed with seven assists in
the winning effort. Katie
Davis (Gainesville, Ga.)
added seven rebounds and three assists for the Blue
Hose.
Coming
off the bench to lead the Blue Bears in scoring was junior
forward Emmerita Foster who contributed seven points.
Junior forward Keneshia Jackson added six points and
amassed 10 rebounds in the effort for the Blue Bears.