Saint Augustine's University will be looking for its third consecutive victory when the Lady Falcons venture to Wilson, N.C., for a 5:30 p.m. women's basketball matchup against Barton College on Tuesday, November 26, 2013.
The Lady Falcons (2-2 overall) are coming off a 68-63 overtime win on the road against USC Aiken on Saturday, November 23. They defeated Claflin University 83-76 on Tuesday, November 19 to start the streak.
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The Lady Falcons made 7 of 7 free throws in the final 1:04 minutes of the extra session to seal the victory over USC Aiken. Sophomore guard
Jeanne-Marie Wilson (Temple Hills, MD) led the Lady Falcons with 15 points and nine rebounds and sophomore guard
Regime McCombs (Greenville, SC) added 14 points. Sophomore guard
Porscha Walton (Chesterfield, VA) contributed eight points, seven rebounds, five assists and two steals.
McCombs leads the Lady Falcons with a 15.3 scoring average. The duo of sophomore forward
Terri Jacobs (McDonough, GA) and Walton each average 9.8 points a contest with Jacobs snatching 7.3 rebounds a game. Wilson averages 8.5 points for the Lady Falcons, who shoot 38.3 percent behind the three-point arc.
The Lady Falcons are averaging 10.8 steals per game and forcing 24.8 turnovers a game with their trademark pressure defense. Walton averages 2.3 steals and Wilson averages 2.0 steals while McCombs averages 1.8 steals.
Barton (2-4 overall) enters its home contest with two consecutive losses by a combined total of four points. The Lady Bulldogs fell to Elizabeth City State University 56-55 on the road on Wednesday, November 20 and 64-61 to Chowan at home on Saturday, November 23.
Senior guard Nyeshea Willie scored a game-high 27 points for Barton and surpassed the 1,500 career point total against Chowan. She leads the Lady Bulldogs in scoring (21.2 ppg), assists (4.2 apg) and steals (2.5 apg). Other top scorers for Barton are senior guard Ashley Thornton (9.8 ppg), junior forward Brianna Thomas (8.7 ppg), senior forward Cassandra Brown (8.3 ppg) and freshman guard Tiffany Webster (8.3 ppg). Thomas averages 7.2 rebounds for the Lady Bulldogs, who are forcing 18 turnovers per game and shooting 74.8 percent from the free throw line.
This is the first meeting between both teams since the 2006-07 season.