Box Score
MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – The Eckerd College women's basketball team had a three-game win streak come to an end on Saturday afternoon, falling against Barry University in a road Sunshine State Conference battle, 53-65.
The Tritons (10-5, 4-3 SSC) had won their previous back-to-back league contests against the University of Tampa and Saint Leo University, but trailed the Buccaneers (10-6, 5-2 SSC) for most of today's game in a bid to move up the SSC standings.
Krystal Charles scored 18 to lead Eckerd while senior guard duo
Kati Rausberg and
Taylor Young played all possible 40 minutes. Rausberg netted nine of her 11 in the first half while Young resumed her torrid shooting streak.
After lighting up the nets for 9-of-10 shooting against Saint Leo, Young was 6-for-8 on Saturday, giving her an 83.3 shooting percentage (15-for-18) in the last two games. She finished with 16 points and had three steals.
Charles was 5-for-11 from the field and converted 7-of-8 attempts from the free-throw line. The Tritons made all 12 of their free throws in the second half.
Barry's Jackie Perez made all five of her shots from beyond the arc as she finished with 16. Collette Eule added 13. While Perez and Eule did their damage off the bench, Yvonne Houston and Alexandria Zamora led the Bucs' starters with eight points apiece.
Perez made a pair of threes in a critical first-half stretch as Barry erased a 9-8 EC lead.
The Tritons outshot the Bucs in the first half and made two more field goals than their opponent, but found themselves trailing by four at halftime. The tables turned in the second half and Barry fired at over a 59-percent clip, while EC managed just seven field goals on 33.3 percent shooting.
After trailing by 11 in the first half at the 7:25 mark, the Tritons closed the half on a 13-6 run. Charles canned a three pointer with four seconds left before halftime following a steal on the other end by freshman
Taylor Bestry.
Charles scored the Tritons' first five points out of the intermission as Eckerd closed to within one, but Barry made its next four consecutive shots, including back-to-back treys by Houston and Shanna Suttington.
The Bucs restored their double-digit lead with just over six minutes to play and the Tritons managed just one field goal from that point on until the final buzzer.
The Tritons remain on the road for their next SSC matchup, traveling to Lynn University in Boca Raton next Wednesday for a 5:30 p.m. showdown.
