Box score
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. −
Jalisa Foster (St. Petersburg, Fla./Pinellas Park HS) led a balanced scoring attack with a team-high 13 points to help lead Flagler College to a 69-57 win over Augusta State University in a Peach Belt Conference women’s basketball game Wednesday night at Flagler Gym. The game was also part of the national WBCA Pink Zone® initiative which raises breast cancer awareness though basketball.
Flagler snapped a three-game losing streak an improved to 8-16 overall and 3-12 in the Peach Belt. Augusta State lost its 22nd game in a row and fell to 1-24 overall and 0-16 in the conference.
Arianna Roper (Niceville, Fla./Niceville HS) and
Jen Mitchell (Fort Myers, Fla./Cypress Creek HS) each tallied 11 points coming off the bench and Mitchell registered a team-high seven assists.
Adrienne Donelson (Frederick, Md./Governor Thomas Johnson HS) added 10 points.
Chanti Beckett (South Plainfield, N.J./South Plainfield HS) chipped in with nine points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds for the Saints.
Flagler shot a season-best 53.7% (22-41) from the floor, including a 62.5% (10-16) mark in the first half.
Blaire Egardo scored a game-high 20 points and made six three-pointers to lead the Lady Jaguars. Kirsten Stallings came off the bench to score 12 points and Eboni Davis finished with 10 points and a game-high eight assists.
Augusta State struggled from the field shooting 35.1% (20-57), including 25% (7-28) in the first half. ASU went 9:36 in the first half without scoring a point. The Lady Jags grabbed 13 offensive rebounds which led to 16 second chance points.
Flagler held a double-digit lead for the majority of the second half, but managed to withstand a 10-2 burst by Augusta State to knock its lead to 52-48 with 7:05 left, but the Saints answered with a run of their own, 14-3, to take a commanding 66-51 lead with 3:30 left.
Flagler heads back out on the road to meet seventh-ranked (USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25) Lander University at Greenwood, S.C., on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
Augusta State vs Flagler
02/17/10 5:30 p.m. at St. Augustine, FL
At St. Augustine, FL
FLAGLER 69, AUGUSTA STATE 57
AUGUSTA STATE (1-24, 0-16 PBC)
Egardo, Blaire 7-13 0-0 20; Stallings, Kirsten 5-11 2-4 12; Davis, Eboni 4-9
0-0 10; Brown, Ashley 2-6 4-4 8; Carlisle, Waneta 2-7 3-4 7; Evans, Briyana
0-3 0-0 0; Foster, Candace 0-5 0-0 0; Gwynn, Asha 0-1 0-1 0; Alexander,
Theresa 0-0 0-0 0; Woods, Jarquella 0-1 0-0 0; Harris, Breanna 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 20-57 9-13 57.
FLAGLER (8-16, 3-12 PBC)
Foster, Jalisa 4-5 5-7 13; Mitchell, Jen 4-9 2-2 11; Roper, Arianna 4-7 0-0
11; Donelson, Adrienne 4-6 2-2 10; Beckett, Chanti 1-4 6-8 9; Owen, Charlsea
2-6 0-0 6; Reddish, Karlyn 2-3 0-0 5; Bailie, Lauren 1-1 2-4 4; Brown,
Rachel 0-0 0-0 0; Knurek, Jen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-41 17-23 69.
Augusta State................. 22 35 - 57
Flagler....................... 30 39 - 69
3-point goals--Augusta State 8-20 (Egardo, Blaire 6-10; Davis, Eboni 2-4;
Carlisle, Waneta 0-1; Foster, Candace 0-3; Woods, Jarquella 0-1; Harris,
Breanna 0-1), Flagler 8-17 (Roper, Arianna 3-6; Owen, Charlsea 2-3; Reddish,
Karlyn 1-2; Mitchell, Jen 1-4; Beckett, Chanti 1-2). Fouled out--Augusta
State-None, Flagler-None. Rebounds--Augusta State 27 (Carlisle, Waneta 8),
Flagler 35 (Beckett, Chanti 9). Assists--Augusta State 17 (Davis, Eboni 8),
Flagler 19 (Mitchell, Jen 7). Total fouls--Augusta State 16, Flagler 16.
Technical fouls--Augusta State-None, Flagler-None. A-183