COMMERCE —
Texas A&M University-Commerce’s women protected their hold on seventh place in the Lone Star Conference basketball standings with a 77-74 victory on Saturday over Texas A&M-Kingsville.
The Lions needed the win because only the top eight teams are invited to the postseason LSC tournament on March 6-9 in Allen. A&M-Commerce improved to 8-13 overall and 6-10 in the conference, while A&M-Kingsville dropped to 5-17 and at 3-13 is in 10th place.
A&M-Commerce hit four of its five five shots and seven of its first 10 to grab the early lead at 14-8. The Lions cooled off a little but not much to finish at 50 percent shooting for the game (29-of-58).
A&M-Kingsville shot 40 percent from 3-point range (10-of-25) to stay in the ball game but could not get Ashley Vera’s 3-pointer to fall at the buzzer.
A&M-Kingsville’s Sheana Jones was 5-of-7 from downtown to lead all scorers with 31 points. Viera finished with 13 points, five assists and four steals.
A&M-Commerce spread its scoring around among Breanna Harris (19), La’Tisha Hearne (19), Danielle Dixon (17) and Symone Brown (15).
Harris managed another double-double with 14 rebounds, including six on the offensive end.
Dixon also added eight rebounds, five assists and three steals to her total.
Brown, who was 2-of-2 from 3-point range, pulled down seven rebounds.
A&M-Commerce has just four games left in the regular schedule starting with a Wednesday night game at Midwestern State in Wichita Falls.
Lone Star Conference women’s game
Texas A&M-Kingsville 33 41 —74
Texas A&M-Commerce 33 44 —77
A&M-KINGSVILLE (74)
Sheana Jones 9-11 8-10 31, Brandi Clark 3-6 0-0 6, Kaitlyn Lowen 4-8 0-1 8, Breanna Gonzalez 0-5 2-3 2, Ashley Viera 2-10 8-12 13, Michelle Wagner 2-4 2-2 8, Madara Gulbe 1-4 0-0 3, Ashley Benavides 0-1 0-0 0, Ruby Robertson 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 22-52 20-28 74.
A&M-COMMERCE (77)
Danielle Dixon 6-15 5-7 17, Kourtney Briscoe 0-1 0-0 0, Breanna Harris 8-13 3-3 19, La’Tisha Hearne 7-8 5-7 19, Symone Brown 6-11 1-2 15, Michelle Sutton 0-1 0-0 0, Sarah Duran 1-3 0-0 2, Ashlee Johnson 0-2 0-0 0, Shanekqua Bibbs 1-2 0-0 3, Aubree Butts 0-2 0-0 0, Devin Oliver 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 29-58 16-21 77.
3-point goals — A&M-Kingsville 10-25 (Jones 5-7, Gonzalez 0-4, Viera 1-8, Wagner 2-3, Gulbe 1-2, Robertson 1-1); A&M-C 3-7 (Dixon 0-1, Briscoe 0-1, Brown 2-2, Johnson 0-1, Bibbs 1-1, Butts 0-1); rebounds — A&M-C 41 (Harris 14), A&M-Kingsville 26 (Clark 8); assists — A&M-Kingsville 17 (Viera 5), A&M-C 15 (Dixon 5); turnovers — A&M-C 25, A&M-Kingsville 19; total fouls — A&M-C 22, A&M-Kingsville (19 (fouled out: Wagner); attendance — 427.
Records: A&M-C 8-13, 6-10; A&M-Kingsville 5-17, 3-13.
Next game: A&M-Commerce at Midwestern State, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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