MARSHALL, Texas – It was another defensive night for the East Texas Baptist University women's basketball team as they dominated Austin College, 69-45, moving to 4-1 on the year. ETBU held AC to 26% shooting from the floor and 18% from the three-point line.
Taylor Singleton shot 8-of-12 from the floor for 19 points with seven rebounds and six steals.
Mollie Dittmar finished with 14 points and five rebounds with a perfect 6-of-6 shooting.
Kaia Williams,
Bridget Upton, and
Hanna Hudson all had seven points. Sarah Gwin led AC with 12 points.
It was a close first quarter as ETBU held a five-point advantage, 20-15. The game was tied three times at five, 10, and 12 and AC took the lead with 1:23 to go on a three-pointer, 15-14. ETBU answered with a 6-0 run for the five-point lead. In that run, Dittmar, Williams, and Hudson all scored to retake the lead.
TAYLOR SINGLETON
AC stayed within five points, 22-17, in the first minute of the second quarter but both teams couldn't find the bucket much in five minutes. At the 5:41 mark,
Mallory Stephens mad a layup for their first double-digit lead, 28-17. AC brought it back down to nine points, 30-21, with 3:58 left but ETBU went on an 8-1 run for a 16-point lead, 38-22. Dittmar,
Haley Fieseler, Singleton, and Williams came up with the points for the lead. AC hit a buzzer beater to trim the lead to 13 at the half, 38-25.
MOLLIE DITTMAR
ETBU dominated the third quarter only allowing AC six points. In the first five minutes, AC hit only one shot as ETBU had a 12-2 run to go up 23-points, 50-27. Singleton scored the first five points of the quarter on a three-pointer and put back off a rebound. Williams nailed a three-pointer followed by a
Grace Stephens lay up as Singleton finished off the run on a steal. Upton gave ETBU the 24-point lead, 55-31, to end the third quarter.
GRACE STEPHENS
The largest lead of the game came in the fourth quarter of 29 points, 65-36, on a Hudson three-pointer with 4:32 left. Both teams scored 14 points in the quarter as AC ended the game on a three-pointer to make it a 69-45 final.
MALLORY STEPHENS
STAT OF THE GAME
ETBU had 42 points in the paint to AC's 12 and produced 23 bench points and 17 second chance points.
NOTES
- It is the third game in a row the ETBU has held the opponent to under 10 points in one of the four quarters. AC had six points in the third quarter
- Mollie Dittmar had a career-high 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting
- Taylor Singleton ties her career-high of 19 points for the second time this season
- Magdalena Delascurain had her first career block vs. AC
- ETBU had their best shooting game of the year at 48% from the floor.
- ETBU grabbed the most rebounds in a game this year at 48
- ETBU now has a 12-game home winning streak
UP NEXT
ETBU opens American Southwest Conference play on the road against Texas Dallas on Monday, November 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Richardson, Texas.
