Lady Jackets Rout UMHB

Tresta Donahoo

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BELTON, Texas – Tresta Donahoo scored a career high 27 points to lead the Howard Payne University women's basketball team to a 99-76 victory over the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Thursday evening.

It was a game of runs for Howard Payne as the Lady Jackets outscored UMHB 14-0 midway through the second half to open the game up. HPU led by as much as 24, 89-65 with 5:39 to play.

UMHB had no answer for Tresta Donahoo who scored a career high 27 points and dished out nine assists with just one turnover.

UMHB did outrebound the Lady Jackets 57-45. It was HPU shooting 46% from the field and hitting 10 of 18 three-pointers that UMHB could not match. HPU also forced 26 UMHB turnovers while committing 16 themselves.

Dana Marrs followed Donahoo 27 points with 18 points. Danyel Bradley added 12 points for HPU off the bench. Senae Dillard finished with nine points and a team high seven rebounds.

UMHB was led by Taylor Tucker with 21 points followed by Jovana Miles with 20. Miles also grabbed a game high 14 rebounds. Katelyn Smith added 13 points.

The Lady Jackets improve to 21-3 overall and 16-2 in conference. UMHB falls to 7-16 overall and 6-12 in conference. Howard Payne will finish the regular season at Concordia Texas on Saturday in Austin, Texas at 1:00 pm. Howard Payne will be the host of the 2013 American Southwest Conference women's basketball tournament February 22-24, bracket to be finalized late Monday evening.

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