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Feb. 6, 2010
NORFOLK, Va. - Three starters scored in double figures led by 20 points from senior April McBride (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and a double-double by junior Chena Parker (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore women's basketball ran past Norfolk State, 76-56, at Echols Hall Saturday. Parker recorded 17 points and 12 rebounds while sophomore Amber Cook (Greensboro, N.C.) chipped in with a career-high 16, including 3-for-4 from 3-point land, and eight boards to help UMES (8-11, 5-4 MEAC) snap a two-game losing skid. Norfolk State (3-15, 0-9) got a team-high 14 points from Tyisha Bridges but the Spartans lost their fourth straight. UMES has now won five consecutive games against NSU. The Lady Hawks led wire-to-wire and were 15-for-29 (51.7 percent) from the field in the second half and 29-of-63 (46 percent) for the game. UMES held the Spartans to 30.9 percent for the game (17-of-55) and had a commanding, 49-28, rebounding edge, marking the first time UMES outrebounded an opponent by at least 20 since Feb. 9, 2008 versus Howard. UMES opened the game on an 11-0 run and kept the Spartans off the scoreboard until a Raychele Payne bucket at the 14:55 mark. Cook had the first four points for the Lady Hawks. UMES was up 22-4 with 10:13 left as Adobi Agbasi (Columbus, Ga.) - making her first career start - hit a jumper for its biggest lead of the half. Norfolk State cut the led to 33-21 at the half on the strength of a 17-11 stretch. Payne had five more in the run for the Spartans. UMES shot 41.2 percent from the floor in the opening 20 and was led by McBride with 10 while Parker tallied eight points and eight rebounds.
NSU, which shot 25 percent in the half, got seven from Payne. The Spartans sliced the deficit to 44-33 with 14:53 on the clock with a Whitney Long layup from Recca Trice, but UMES engineered a 20-11 run over the next 10 minutes to take a 20-point lead at 64-44 on a Parker free throw at the 5:44 mark. McBride led the way with eight points in the spurt that put the game away. UMES cruised to the win from there. Agbasi finished with eight points and eight rebounds. Junior Latoya Buckner (Washington, D.C.) tallied five points and seven rebounds while Casey Morton (Mardela Springs, Md.) had seven and five, respectively, The Lady Hawks turned 18 offensive rebounds into 17 second-chance points while Norfolk State had nine on the offensive glass and five points as a result. UMES also had a 36-24 advantage in points in the paint. UMES heads to Greensboro, N.C., Monday to face North Carolina A&T at 6 p.m., in a game televised on ESPNU. |
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