Box Score AUGUSTA, Ga. - The Eckerd women's basketball team used a strong third quarter to pull away from Paine (Ga.) in the team's final game of 2015, closing the calendar year with an 81-57 victory.
The Tritons (7-3) took the lead for good just moments into the game on a
Kacie Juday free throw with 8:56 left in the first quarter. However, Paine managed to stay close during the first half, going to the break trailing by just eight points at 37-29.
The third quarter, however, quickly changed things as Eckerd opened on a 9-0 run and later closed the quarter on a 14-5 run to essentially put the game out of reach with a 23-point lead. EC out-scored the Lions in the third quarter, 27-12.
"Overall we shot the ball well with different people chipping in to score," said Eckerd head coach
Paul Honsinger. "We exploded in the third quarter. We executed and took good shots."
The Tritons held on to the 20-point lead for the entire fourth quarter, going ahead by as many as 28 points after a 3-pointer by
Mariam Hannoun.
For the second straight game, Eckerd shot the ball quite well from the perimeter. The Tritons knocked down 10-of-22 from behind the arc with three each from
Margaret Sundberg,
Chelsea Johnson and
Sarah Ammons.
"Chelsea gave us really good minutes again," Honsinger said. "Sarah has provided us a spark off the bench as well, getting steals and knocking down 3-pointers."
Eckerd also got a big game out of
Ashley Folsom, who scored a career-high 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting to go along with seven rebounds.
"We drove the baseline and found her in the 15-foot range a lot," said Honsinger. "She took good shots and is certainly capable of scoring like this."
Sundberg added 14 while Johnson scored 11, her second straight game in double figures after returning from injury. Ammons barely missed reaching double-digits, chipping in nine points.
The performances off the bench by Johnson and Ammons, among others, has been a bright spot for Honsinger.
"The more contributors we have," he said, "the better we are going to be."
The Tritons are off until January, when they resume Sunshine State Conference play against defending conference champion Nova Southeastern in the McArthur Center on January 6.
