Lady Jackets Continue To Roll

Jasmin Thomas scores career high 22 points against Centenary

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SHREVEPORT, LA - Jasmin Thomas scored a career high 22 points to help the Howard Payne University Lady Jackets to a 66-55 win over Centenary College Saturday afternoon.

Howard Payne forced 21 Centenary turnovers allowing HPU to get 14 fastbreak points to Centenary's 4. The HPU bench was a major contributor as usual scoring 31 points to Centenary's 15.

Howard Payne now stands at 11-2 overall. Centenary, though competing in the American Southwest Conference schedule does not count as a conference game, falls to 4-9 overall.

Leading the majority of the first half, Howard Payne led at the break 34-24. The Lady Jackets broke open the game starting the second half with a 10-0 run.

Centenary would pull within eight in the second half only to have the Lady Jackets put together another run to secure the game.

Jasmin Thomas led all scorers with a career high 22 points on 9 of 15 shooting. Thomas also had six rebounds, three assists and three steals. Tresta Donahoo and Roshonda Gayden both added 11 points. Gayden finished with a career high 15 rebounds.

Vashni Sharp-Moore led Centenary with 16 points. Dio Warr and Megan Daniel had 13 and 10 points respectively. Warr had 10 rebounds with Jalena Sanders adding 11 rebounds.

The Lady Jackets will be back at home next week against McMurry on Thursday at 5:30 pm and Hardin-Simmons on Saturday at 1:00 pm.
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