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100
Winner West Virginia St. WVSt 3-1,1-0 MEC
89
Glenville St. Glen 3-1,0-1 MEC
Winner
West Virginia St. WVSt
3-1,1-0 MEC
100
Final
89
Glenville St. Glen
3-1,0-1 MEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
West Virginia St. WVSt 27 19 27 27 100
Glenville St. Glen 28 22 23 16 89

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

WVSU Women’s Basketball defeats Glenville State in MEC opener

GLENVILLE, W.Va. – West Virginia State's women's basketball team defeated the Glenville State Pioneers for the second consecutive time Saturday afternoon at the Waco Center. WVSU shot 46 percent from the field including 58 percent in the final quarter while Glenville State shot 36 percent from the field and 29 percent in the fourth quarter. State also outrebounded the Pioneers 61-42.

Both teams' records go to 3-1 on the season. WVSU is now 1-0 Mountain East play while Glenville State falls to 0-1 in the MEC.

Shelby Harmeyer and Anysa Jordan each had a double-double. Jordan scored 19 points and gathered 10 boards on 7-of-13 shooting while Harmeyer bucketed 15 points and 10 rebounds on 6-14 shooting. 

State opened the scoring in the game just over a minute into the game by Anysa Jordan. State eventually scored seven points before Glenville St. was able to score on a pair of free throws at the 8:17 mark. WVSU went cold from the field and Glenville went on a 16-0 run. State recovered and ended up tying the game at 19-all with 2:31 to play in the frame, then took the lead on the following possession. Glenville State took the lead with less than a minute to play and held it through to the end of the period. 

WVSU and Glenville State battled through the entirety of the second quarter with 10 lead changes and five ties. It was tied 43-all with 70 seconds to play after Glenville hit a jumper while being fouled. They converted the and-one opportunity only for Harmeyer to hit a long range jumper to give State the lead back, 46-44. GSU ended the half on a 6-0 run, however, and took a 50-46 lead into the locker room. 

The Pioneer lead got as high as 6 points in the early stages of the third quarter but Shanley Woods was able to tie the game up twice in succession after she hit a trey, Glenville answered with one of their own and then Woods canned another trey with just over seven minutes to go. Ashley Kerekes grabbed a pass from Hannah Shriver to can one of her own and give the Jackets their first lead of the second half with 6:24 to go. That lead ballooned to seven points with just over four minutes to play, but the Pioneers trimmed the lead and eventually tied it with 26 seconds to go. A late jumper attempt by Imani Reid was missed and Glenville State and West Virginia State went into the fourth quarter knotted up at 73. 

It took nearly two minutes for either team to score, and it was ZZ Russell that gave the Yellow Jackets the slim two point lead at the 8:04 mark. That lead lasted only eight seconds when Glenville State hit a three pointer. Shortly after, Fields gave the Yellow Jackets the lead for good with 6:31 to play and in the span of two-and-a-half minutes, went on a 12-0 run to expand that lead to 13 points, 95-82. The lead never went below 10 points for the rest of the game, and WVSU took home the 100-89 victory, their second straight win over the Pioneers.

State opens their home MEC schedule on Tuesday, Nov. 21 against the Concord Mountain Lions inside the Walker Convocation Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 2:00 pm.
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