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Tennessee-Martin
Owls Bring Skywhawks Down to Earth with 66-57 Win
12/29/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec. 29, 2008
Oxford, Miss. -- In the first game of the Ole Miss Holiday Classsic, the Rice Owls women's basketball team defeated Tennessee-Martin 66-57 behind the clutch outside shooting of Maudess Fulton who poured in a game-high 20 points. Freshman guard D'Frantz Smart tallied 17 points as well for the Owls. The Owls are now 4-6 overall and will face either Ole Miss or Northwestern State on Tuesday at Tad Smith Colisuem. The Skyhawks drop to 1-10 on the season.
The win for Rice snapped a five-game losing streak.
The Owls were behind early at 8-6, but they went on a 16-0 run to forge a 22-8 lead that it would not relinquish. Fulton started the the explosion with a three-point bomb and Brianna Hypolite capped it with another trey against the UTM zone.
Rice made 7 three-pointers on the night, while holding the Skyhawks to just 3 and the Owls shot 45.6 percent from the field, to UTM's 37.7 percent.
The Owls started the second half by making three three-pointers, two by Smart and one by Fulton to give the Owls their biggest lead at 19 (47-28).
But, the Skyhawks switched to a man-to-man defense and countered with a 12-0 run of their own to cut it to 47-40, the closest they would get the rest of the way. Sienna Forney led UTM with 16 points, while Phyllisa Mitchell added 11.
Newspaper Box Score
UT Martin vs Rice
12/29/08 4:30 p.m. at Oxford, Miss. - Tad Smith Coliseum
At Oxford, Miss. - Tad Smith Coliseum
RICE 66, UT MARTIN 57
UT MARTIN (1-10)
FORNEY, Sienna 8-14 0-0 16; MITCHELL, Phyllisha 4-12 3-4 11; WRIGHT, Allison
3-6 0-0 9; MALONE, Whitney 2-6 4-8 8; GLOVER, Alisha 2-7 1-4 5; DAVIS,
Yalonda 2-7 0-0 4; SMITH, Kiara 1-3 0-0 2; HARPER, Samantha 1-6 0-0 2.
Totals 23-61 8-16 57.
RICE (4-6)
Fulton, Maudess 8-17 1-3 20; Smart, D'Frantz 7-17 0-1 17; Carter, Emery 5-9
2-3 12; Hypolite, Brianna 1-1 2-2 5; Wittmayer, Melissa 2-2 0-0 4; MAYSE,
Morgan 1-4 2-2 4; Watts, Tara 2-5 0-0 4; Ashford, Candace 0-0 0-0 0; CARMON,
Memri 0-1 0-0 0; Horne, Shyrelle 0-0 0-0 0; McKinney, Amenemope 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 26-57 7-11 66.
UT Martin..................... 24 33 - 57
Rice.......................... 38 28 - 66
3-point goals--UT Martin 3-7 (WRIGHT, Allison 3-5; MALONE, Whitney 0-1;
FORNEY, Sienna 0-1), Rice 7-19 (Fulton, Maudess 3-8; Smart, D'Frantz 3-7;
Hypolite, Brianna 1-1; Watts, Tara 0-1; Carmon, Memri 0-1; McKINNEY,
Amenemope 0-1). Fouled out--UT Martin-None, Rice-None. Rebounds--UT Martin
47 (MITCHELL, Phyllisha 18), Rice 29 (Carter, Emery 8). Assists--UT Martin 8
(WRIGHT, Allison 4), Rice 16 (Watts, Tara 5). Total fouls--UT Martin 11,
Rice 13. Technical fouls--UT Martin-None, Rice-None. A-202
