The final double-digit scorer of the four for Longwood was Adriana Shipp. She finished with seven rebounds, one assists, and two steals on top of her total points. Quiet all game, McMakin started hitting shots late in the game and added to the large win over the Big South competitor. McMakin finished the game with 19, grabbing most of her points in the fourth quarter. Lead scorer on both sides was again junior guard Kyla McMakin for the Lancers. Plus, it takes pressure off our leading scorers as well, so they can just do their thing." So it's really great that now we're seeing more consistency with that. We know we have multiple people capable of doing that, and we've made it focus since the beginning of the year. When you have more people in double-figures, teams have to respect every women on the floor. Our offense, we continue to get consistent contributions from more different women. "Our defense keeps improving, which is critical to us. We have taken that message and really messed teams up with it." Our mentality is, don't let the person in front of you score, and if they are going to score, it's going to be a hard shot, it's going to be a contested shot. "Our mentality is everybody's guarding the ball, and we help each other out in doing that. "We've been able to really turn on the pressure on our defense, and having that high pressure system on opposing offensive teams that can't get into any sort of rhythm," said Calhoun. Teammates Bryonna McClean and Bridget Birkhead had a pair of eights on the day with a combine of eight assists – each grabbing four. Rachel LaLonde led the Highlanders with 12 points, nine rebounds, and three steals, just shy of a double-double. The Lancers were able to hold Radford (5-13, 1-6 Big South) for four minutes straight with no score, creating a gap large enough the Highlanders couldn't ever catch up to. In the second quarter, the energy shifted to Longwood's favor. Our defensive pressure leads to those plays where we can run and on offense for us anyone can be deadly." We get out and run, and it plays in our favor because we can hit three's, layups, everything in transition. "I think transition really helps us out with this, too. "Our offense is a continuous movement, so if you're open we're going to find you," said Kennedy Calhoun on the success from offense on Saturday. Smith went 2-4 from behind the arch, and 5-8 from the field finishing the game with 13 points while adding to her first rank status with seven more assists on Saturday. Alongside Smith, Tra'Dayja Smith claimed all ownership from the outside very early in the game. Smith finished the game with 18 points, seven rebounds, three steals and two assists. In the last meeting between the two teams back in 2021, it was the dynamic Smith duo that lead the Lancers to victory, combining for 50 points - Saturday it was some of the same story.Īkila Smith led the offense for Longwood early and throughout the majority of the game. "It felt really good to put all the pieces together and get a win."įollowing the first ten minutes played, it was all Longwood (11-10, 8-2 Big South) basketball for the remaining three quarters. "We were playing together as a team, and we responded to the challenges that Tillett and the other coaches have given us leading up to this game," said Adriana Shipp on the win. All these double-figure wins really speaks to how all our women go about their preparation, and their day-to-day focus." "I think our women are really focused on what the areas are that we need to improve on, and let's fix them because we have really big goals for the end of the season. "We're turning into the second half of the season and we're really trying to build that momentum," said head coach Rebecca Tillett on Saturday's victory. This is the fourth game in a row Longwood has taken a win over a Big South opponent by double-figures, making it now four wins in a row. – Saturday afternoon, Longwood added another conference win to its belt in south-west Virginia against the Highlanders 78-51.
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