NORTH CAROLINA A&T DEFEATS YALE ON A BUZZER BEATER, 80-79

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Senior Lamona Smalley tipped in a Crystal Murdaugh miss to lead the North Carolina A&T Lady Aggies to an 80-79 win over Yale in the consolation game of the New Mexico Thanksgiving Tournament at The Pit.

Five Aggies were in double figures led by freshman Amber Calvin and sophomore Tierra Thomas. Both finished with 14 points apiece. Smalley finished with 13 points and seven rebounds.

"The ladies really believed in themselves tonight,'' said Bibbs, who played with only eight players. "They used our situation as motivation, so you really have to be proud of young people for rallying around each other to finish off a task."

The task of winning the game looked bleak when Yale's Melissa Colborne scored on a layup with 1:36 to play to give the Bulldogs a 79-74 lead. Things weren't looking any better as the Aggies turned the ball over on their next possession. But a Murdaugh steal and a JaQuayla Berry layup turned momentum in the Aggies favor.

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AUBURN CLAWS LADY RATTLERS, 69-45

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- Auburn downed the Florida A&M, 69-45 in their final game of the Seminole Classic, Saturday afternoon at the Donald L.Tucker Center.

FAMU (3-2) had only one player to score double figures in Deidra Jones with 16.  Qiana Donald led FAMU on the boards with 12 rebounds.

The Tigers opened the game with a 10-0 run, capped on a three point play by Allison Smalley with 17:52 remaining.

A layup by Tameka McKelton at the 17:24 mark put the Lady Rattlers on the board at 10-2.

The Lady Rattlers would then return the favor as they cut the Tigers lead to 25-20 on a Jones layup with 6:55 remaining, capping a 10-1 run.

Another McKelton layup with 53 seconds remaining in the half would cut AU's lead to 29-27, but a Pascal West layup with 25 seconds left in the half, gave the Tigers a 31-27 lead at the break.

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Colonials Use Three-Pointers to Defeat Coppin State

PITTSBURGH -- Vega Gimeno-Martinez scored 24 points and Robert Morris outscored Coppin State 27-3 from the three-point line to defeat the Eagles 67-58 on Saturday at the Sewall Center.

Gimeno-Martinez finished the game 7-of-12 from the field, including 6-of-7 from the three-point line, to lead the Colonials.

Led by Gimeno-Martinez, Robert Morris made 9-of-21 three-point attempts while Coppin State was limited to 1-of-14 shooting from beyond the line.

Robert Morris was 5-of-9 from the three-point line in the second half, which helped the Colonials overcome a 29-26 deficit at the half.

Lakeytah Irving led the Eagles (2-3) with 15 points, while Jeanine Manley and Chanelle Downing each scored 11 points.

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Samford Routs NSU 70-33 in UAB Tournament

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Emily London scored a game-high 10 points to help the Samford women's basketball team to a 70-33 rout of Norfolk State in the UAB Thanksgiving Classic on Saturday afternoon at Bartow Arena.

The Spartans (1-4) had their roughest outing of the young season. They had season lows in points scored (33), field goals made and attempted (9-of-44) and field goal percentage (20.5 percent).

Samford (5-1) got on the board first on a layup by London with 19:10 left in the first half and never looked back. NSU first scored at the 15:04 mark on a bucket by Marquilla Evans to cut the Bulldogs' lead to five (7-2).

The Spartans could only manage 14 points in the first half and just 19 in the second. Samford exploded for 41 points in the second stanza and led by as many as 40, 67-27, with over two minutes left.

Samford shot 54.2 percent (26-of-48) from the floor for the game and was 8-for-14 (57.1 percent) from 3-point range. Hannah Dawson had 10 points and two rebounds for the Bulldogs, while Alex Crow had nine points and 13 rebounds.

Evans had a team-high six points for NSU. Recca Trice and Raychele Payne each added five points.

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LADY PIRATES FALL TO BULLDOGS IN SMU TOURNEY

DALLAS, Texas -Hampton finished fourth in the 2009 Southern Methodist University Hoops For the Cure Tournament, falling in the consolation game 66-54 to Fresno State on Saturday at Moody Coliseum.

Fresno State used a 19-8 run to open the second half and break a 30-30 tie, capping it off with a 3-pointer from Jaleesa Ross with 11:08 to play to give the Bulldogs a 49-38 lead. Emma Andrews hit a jumper with 9:25 left to give Fresno State a 53-40 lead, the Bulldogs' largest of the night, but Hampton would close within seven on the strength of a 10-4 spurt; when Quanneisha Perry hit a pair of free throws with 5:06 to play, the Bulldogs' lead was just 57-50.

Fresno State would close the game on a 9-4 run, as the Lady Pirates would only make one field goal in the game's final five minutes.

Junior Laura Lewis led three Lady Pirates in double figures, tying her career high with 18 points on 7-for-16 shooting and making all four of her free throws. Perry and Bernadette Fortune each added 14 points for the Lady Pirates (2-3), while Perry also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds.

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Late EKU Surge Downs the Lady Wildcats, 66-65

A three-pointer with only 9 seconds remaining pushed EKU on top amidst a B-CU scoring slump to give the Lady Colonels the win

GREENVILLE, N.C. -The Bethune-Cookman Lady Wildcats fell to the Eastern Kentucky Lady Colonels, 66-65, on a last second three-pointer by EKU junior Talisha Davis on day two of the Lady Pirate Invitational.  

B-CU led the entire game, with a fluctuating lead in the first half that reached as many as 10 points and dropped to just one before the Lady Wildcats rallied up and separated themselves. They went into the locker room leading 32-27, taking advantage of EKU missteps by scoring 13 points off turnovers.

In the second period, the Lady Wildcats pushed back off and gained a bit of breathing room, hovering around a double-digit lead for more than ten minutes of the second. The Lady Colonels began to make a move. It appeared that a three-pointer by Jalisa Isaac may have silenced EKU with 6:44 remaining, but the Lady Wildcats found themselves amidst a shooting drought, while the Lady Colonels climbed back into the game, forcing a tie at 61 all, with 2:45 remaining.

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SC State Falls to Charleston Southern in Women's Basketball

CHARLESTON, SC - Senior Sophilia Hipps scored a game-high 23 points but that wasn't enough as SC State suffered a 71-87 loss to Charleston Southern University (CSU) Saturday at the Buccaneer Field House.

CSU began the game on an 8-0 run but SC State quickly rebounded with a 6-0 run of their own to pull within two, 8-6.  From that point, the first half turned into a game of runs.  The Buccaneers went on a 10-4 run over six minutes to jump ahead 18-10.  The Lady Bulldogs then went on an 8-2 run to pull within three, 25-22.  The Buccaneers closed the first half with an 18-10 run to enjoy a 43-32 advantage at the half.

SC State opened the second half with a 9-3 run over six minutes of the half to pull within five, 46-41. Charleston Southern then went on a 13-4 run over the next five minutes to increase its lead by 12, 57-45.  The Buccaneers would go up by 16, 63-47, midway through the second half.  The Lady Bulldogs managed to get as close as nine, 75-66, with a little over three minutes remaining but could not get any closer and would eventually fall by 16, 87-71.

Freshman Paris Alston recorded a double-double, 17 points-11 rebounds and junior transfer Joi Walker dropped in 11 points as SC State fell to 2-3 on the season.

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