Lady Braves Fall To Lady Jags

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Alcorn State University women's basketball program had an off shooting night and it came back to haunt them as Southern torched the nets in a 72-46 defeat.

The Lady Braves (6-11, 6-7 SWAC) shot relatively well from three-point territory (5-of-15, .333) but went just 14-for-49 (.286) from inside the arc which opened the door for the lopsided result.

Kirdis Clark fronted the Purple and Gold in the scoring department, delivering 14 points while also leading the club in assists (4) and steals (3).
 
Cayla Obillo tied with Clark for the top assist-getter for Alcorn at four while being the only other Lady Brave to score in double-digits with ten.
 
Tyginae Wright showed some defensive prowess on the afternoon, swatting away three Southern shots while Diamond Hall pulled down the most boards for Coach Kilbert's club with five.

Southern (9-10, 9-4 SWAC) was efficient shooting the rock, making nearly half of their three-point attempts (9-of-20, .450) to go along with 27-for-58 (.466) overall inside the Clark Activity Center.

Nakia Kincey was en fuego for the home team, connecting on four triples while going 7-for-11 (.636) from the field to lead all game scorers with 20 as well as dishing out a tied for game-best four assists.
 
Amani McWain (15), Tyneisha Metcalf (11) and Chloe Fleming (10) joined Kincey in scoring ten-plus whereas Genovea Johnson was the contest's top rebounder at eight.

Alcorn finishes up the regular season on Thursday and Saturday with its annual Lone Star State road trip to Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M in hopes to bounce back prior to the SWAC Tournament the following week.
 
NOTES

• Southern swept the season series this year but still trails the Lady Braves by 15 all-time (49-34).
• SU dominated the stat sheet in all of the important categories including turnovers forced (18-11), rebounds (38-33), points off turnovers (21-9) and field-goal percentage (46.6-29.7).

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