Box Score

After stumbling out of the starting blocks with a season opening loss Saturday the West Virginia State women's basketball team found its footing and more Sunday in the final game of the Wingate by Wyndham Conference Challenge.

A day after hitting only 27.5 percent from the floor, including a meager 1-of-29 from 3-point range, the Yellow Jackets knocked down 45 percent of their shots including 14 3-pointers on the way to a record setting 123-93 win over Kutztown Sunday.

The 123 points scored sets a program record bettering the 118 put up at Concord on December 1, 2006.

"I was very pleased with the way our team came out and played as one unit today," first-year head coach Charles Marshall said. "I think nerves had a lot to do with (Saturday's game)."

Sunday's first quarter gave very little indication of what was to come as the squads traded leads 13 time with buckets being exchanged at a rapid rate.

The Golden Bears actually led 27-26 after the first 10 minutes.

But after that WVSU gradually and steadily pulled away beginning with a 36 point second period that led to a 62-53 halftime advantage.

The Yellow Jackets constant full court pressure and relentlessly attacking offense wore down the visitors as WVSU won the second period by 10 points, the third by 11, and the fourth also by 10.

Yellow Jacket fans can expect more of the same the rest of the season.

"We just have to keep up the pressure," Marshall said. "We have to keep playing our kind of game."

All 11 Jackets that dressed for the game scored and seven hit at least one 3-pointer.

Jasmine Davis led WVSU with 21 points, Shealyn Shafer added 18, Tatyana Reynolds and Jordan Miller 17 each, and Sydney Bates 15.

"If we can produce like that on a nightly basis we will be tough," Marshall said. "That is something we really want to do."

WVSU also won the battle on the boards 49-37 and forced 17 turnovers while committing just nine in spite of the game's rapid pace. A total of seven Jackets recorded an assist and the 14 3-pointers was the third most in a game in program history.

Chowan defeated the University of Charleston 84-78 in the day's first game.

The Yellow Jacket women next face California-Pa. at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Walker Convocation Center on campus.