Box Score SAVANNAH, GA—Senior guard Tiara Gause scored a game and season-high 20 points, but Francis Marion University was defeated in Peach Belt Conference action 94-72 by Armstrong Atlantic State University, Saturday afternoon (Jan. 5) in women's basketball action.
FMU (6-4, 1-3) will return home to host three straight PBC opponents beginning with Columbus State on Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m.
Gause was 10-of-15 from the floor, while also grabbing five rebounds. Senior forward Jasmine Williams-Hayes tallied a career-high 15 points on near-perfect 7-of-8 shooting
Karolina Rykowska led Armstrong Atlantic (6-5, 1-3) with 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and nine rebounds.
Francis Marion committed 11 turnovers in the game while also forcing 14 turnovers, but the Patriots shot just 29 percent in the first half that saw the Pirates go into halftime leading by 21.
The Patriots held the lead for a short period of time after Gause made a layup to put FMU up 7-6 three minutes into the game. After Rykowska hit a layup just 30 seconds later, the Pirates never relinquished the lead. Winding down in the half, the Pirates scored the final six points to increase the lead to 43-22.
The second half saw the Pirates lead never drop below 18 points, even though the Patriots shot better than 57 percent from the floor in the second half, along with 3-6 from behind the three-point line.
1/5/13 1:30 p.m. at Savannah, Ga. (Alumni Arena)
ARMSTRONG 94, FRANCIS MARION 72
FRANCIS MARION (6-4, 1-3 PBC)
Tiara Gause 10-15 0-1 20; Jas. Williams-Hayes 7-8 1-2 15; Dee Gray 4-11 3-3
12; Camille Dash 4-4 0-0 10; Kim Roach 3-5 0-1 6; Briana Robinson 1-6 0-0 3;
Erin Pinkett 1-6 0-0 3; Kristen Dickerson 1-13 1-2 3; DeAsia Toney 0-1 0-0
0. Totals 31-69 5-9 72.
ARMSTRONG (6-5, 1-3 PBC)
Karolina Rykowska 7-10 4-4 18; Demisha Mills 7-11 0-3 14; Mauri Wells 5-10
2-2 13; Bryonna Davis 6-9 0-0 13; Tori Klewicki-McNutt 5-8 2-2 12; Stephenie
Coney 3-7 4-4 10; Tyler Carlson 2-4 2-2 7; Candace Carreras 1-2 4-6 7;
Marissa Rimbert 0-0 0-0 0; Hanna Bognar 0-0 0-0 0; Brianna McFarland 0-0 0-0
0; Dee Hayward 0-1 0-0 0; Morgan Mitchell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-62 18-23 94.
Halftime: Armstrong 43 Francis Marion 22
3-point goals--Francis Marion 5-14 (Camille Dash 2-2; Dee Gray 1-3; Erin
Pinkett 1-4; Briana Robinson 1-3; Kristen Dickerson 0-2), Armstrong 4-10
(Bryonna Davis 1-3; Mauri Wells 1-1; Candace Carreras 1-1; Tyler Carlson
1-2; Dee Hayward 0-1; Stephenie Coney 0-1; Tori Klewicki-McNutt 0-1). Fouled
out--Francis Marion-Jas. Williams-Hayes, Armstrong-None. Rebounds--Francis
Marion 23 (Tiara Gause 5), Armstrong 48 (Mauri Wells 13). Assists--Francis
Marion 12 (Briana Robinson 4), Armstrong 24 (Bryonna Davis 6). Total
fouls--Francis Marion 15, Armstrong 13. Technical fouls--None. A-216
