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Tema Celebration
65
Charleston (WV) UCM 14-4,9-3 MEC
88
Winner West Virginia St. WVSt 15-2,10-2 MEC
Charleston (WV) UCM
14-4,9-3 MEC
65
Final
88
West Virginia St. WVSt
15-2,10-2 MEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Charleston (WV) UCM 23 10 20 12 65
West Virginia St. WVSt 25 22 23 18 88

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Bryan Shepherd, Assistant Sports Information Director

WVSU clips UC’s wings, downs second ranked opponent this week

INSTITUTE, W.Va. – West Virginia State's women's basketball team knocked off their second top 25 team this week after taking down cross-county rival No. 20 Charleston (14-4, 9-3 MEC) in the Kanawha River Classic at the Walker Convocation Center on Saturday, 88-65. With the victory, WVSU will almost certainly crack the top 25 nationally, and very likely make it into the top 20. WVSU also enters into a tie for first-place atop the Mountain East standings with Glenville State.

The Yellow Jackets (15-2, 10-2 MEC) held one of the best shooting teams in the conference to under 38 percent from the field and blew up the league's best defensive team for more than 25 points above their average. 

Destiny Fields led all scorers with 21 points and seven rebounds. ZZ Russell, Anysa Jordan, and Alana Kramer all posted double-digit point totals with 17, 15, and 11 points respectively. 

UC's leading scorer, Trinity Palacio paced the Golden Eagles with 18 points. Markiya McCormick was not on the active roster for UC. 

UC's larget lead of the game came immediately after the opening tip when they scored the first bucket of the game to take a 2-0 lead. State then took a 5-2 lead before UC tied it up at 5-all. State held a 16-10 lead at the first quarter media timeout. The game was close for the remainder of the quarter but the turning point was an Alana Kramer launch from long range just before the horn to put the Jackets back in front 25-23.

The second quarter was all WVSU. UC hit the opening basket to tie the game at 25, State then rattled off a 7-0 run with Russell, Fields and Emyah Fortenberry all contributing points. State finished the final six minutes of the quarter scoring 15 points to UC's six, taking a 47-33 lead into the locker room. UC didn't hit a single long-range jumper in the quarter after pounding out three in the first quarter. UC was held to 17.6 percent from the field.

The scoring pace jumped dramatically in the third quarter, but for every basket that UC put in, State was able to find an answer. State saw the lead shrink to 10 twice in the quarter, 49-39 and 57-47. State then put together a 9-2 run, extending the lead back to 17, 66-49. The two teams traded four points to head into the final frame. 

UC only managed to score 12 points against WVSU's hounding full-court press defense in the fourth quarter while WVSU put 18 on the board to give the Yellow Jackets only their 10th victory against their cross-county rivals since 1999.

Up Next
WVSU heads up I-79 for a 5:30 pm contest against the Fairmont State Fighting Falcons, inside Joe Retton Arena in Fairmont. WVSU took down the Falcons on Dec. 3 inside the Walker Center by a final score of 90-85. Fairmont State defeated Frostburg State on Saturday 76-66.
 
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