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Aniyah Tate watching who she is defending
Thomas Hemingway
53
Greensboro GBORO 2-14, 2-7 USA So
71
Winner Methodist MUWBK 11-5, 8-1 USA So
Greensboro GBORO
2-14, 2-7 USA So
53
Final
71
Methodist MUWBK
11-5, 8-1 USA So
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Greensboro GBORO 16 8 16 13 53
Methodist MUWBK 30 18 14 9 71

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Michael Spratt

Methodist Takes Down Greensboro at Home

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.  Methodist University women's basketball played host to Greensboro College on Saturday, January 20, for a USA South Athletic Conference contest. For the third straight game, the Monarchs took care of business & score 70+ points, 71-53, in their victory over the Pride.

JUST THE FACTS
Final score: Methodist def. Greensboro, 71-53
Records: Methodist 11-5 (8-1 USA South), Greensboro 2-14 (2-7)
Location: March F. Riddle Center; Fayetteville, North Carolina

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Aniyah Tate scored the first six Methodist points to give her team an early edge to begin the ballgame. A couple of minutes later the Monarchs tacked on seven unanswered points to go up 13-4. Tate then recorded the next three Methodist baskets to push it to a double-digit lead, 19-9. In the last four minutes of the first quarter, the Monarchs outscored Greensboro 11-7 to take a 14-point advantage into the second.
  • After the Pride made the initial bucket of the new period, Tate kept her offensive output going by registering the first three scores for Methodist, 36-18. Seven of the next nine Monarch points were tallied by Kiley Hicks as Methodist increased its lead to 20 points, 45-22.
  • Another basket by Tate in the early stages of the third gave the Monarchs a 27-point advantage, their largest of the contest. After that Methodist struggled to score again for the next five minutes and in that time the Pride went on a 14-3 run to trim the deficit down to 16 points. The Monarchs managed to get out of their scoring drought by recording eight straight points, which also got them back to a 24-point lead.
  • A slow paced fourth quarter saw Greensboro utilized a seven-point scoring run to make it 63-48 with four minutes left. Down the stretch the two sides kept trading points with Jillian Peterson, Aneesa Irizarry, and Rebecca McGaughnea adding two points each to Methodist total.
MORE TO IT
  • After scoring 30 points in their last game, Tate went out and topped her previous career-high with a 31-point performance. She becomes the first Methodist women's basketball player to record 30 or more points in back-to-back games in program history.
  • Heading into this game Irizarry was only three assists shy from dishing out 200 in her career. She finished the afternoon with five and now sits at 202. She is the first Monarch to reach this milestone since Jackie Lyles in 2014.
UP NEXT
Methodist takes the court again inside the March F. Riddle Center on Tuesday, January 23, when the Monarchs host North Carolina Wesleyan University, in another USA South bout. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 PM.
    
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