Box Score MONTGOMERY, Ala. --
Eight of 11 Grambling State University (16-13; 13-5 SWAC) players scored points, including 10 from lead scorer Jazmine Boyd, but it was not enough as the Lady Tigers fell to the Alabama State University Lady Hornets 69-60 in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.
Combined with other SWAC women's basketball game results Saturday, the win puts the ASU in the #1 SWAC seed position for next week's Southwestern Athletic Conference basketball tournament in Houston. ASU's victory gives the team a share of the regular season SWAC championship, along with Texas Southern University of Houston and Southern University of Baton Rouge. A conference tie-breaker puts the Lady Hornets in the #1 seed for conference tournament play.In addition to her points, Boyd pulled down three rebounds and had three assists. ASU's Daniele Ewert finished the game with 22 points, five rebounds, four assists and one steal.The first half of the game began with the Lady Hornets on a 5-0 run. GSU's Chantiara Lewis was the first to score for her team, setting the tone for her teammates.
Although Alabama State kept the lead over the Lady Tigers during the first quarter and a large part of the second, a 3-point basket by Boyd also drew a foul and she nailed her free throw shot, placing the Lady Tigers in position to take the lead with 4:20 left in the second quarter. At halftime the score read 32-28, and the Lady Tigers continued to carry the lead. Lady Tigers Shakyla Hill and John'ea Thompson put up eight points in the game by then, and Daniele Ewert of the Lady Hornets had 10 points.
During the second two quarters of the game the teams toggled with the lead, but once the Lady Tigers lost the lead they lost the game momentum and could not turn it around.
In the last minute of the game, the Lady Hornets had a 10-point lead over the Lady Tigers.
The team's leading scorer, Shakyla Hill, ended the game with nine points, and Bre'nae Andrews also put nine in the bucket. Helping ASU teammate Ewert was Jasmine Peeples with 14 points, a whopping 16 rebounds and five blocks.
The Lady Tigers will enter the 2016 Toyota SWAC tournament, playing on Wednesday (March 9).
