Box Score

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville State women's basketball team wrapped up the Hampton Inn Oceanfront Holiday Classic, hosted by North Florida with a 66-53 loss to Campbell on Saturday afternoon at the UNF Arena.

The loss dropped JSU to 0-11 on the season, while the Lady Camels improved to 8-2 on the season.  JSU fell to host-UNF on Friday in the second game of the day.  CU completed the two-day event with a pair of wins.  CU downed Maryland Eastern Shore on Friday.

CU expanded its nine-point halftime lead out to as many as 19 points in the first six minutes of the second half.  The Lady Camels, who led 52-33 at the 14:42 mark of the half, out-scored the Gamecocks 19-5 and limiting JSU to points from the free throw line.  Jax State hit its first basket of the half on a lay up by Peyton Hisel at the 13:28 mark of the half.  Hisel's bucket sparked a 14-0 scoring run by Jax State to trim the deficit down to five points at 52-47 with 8:28 left in the contest.  Hisel scored all eight of her points in the second half. 

JSU held CU without points for a span of over seven minutes before the Lady Camel's hit a three pointer with 7:49 left in the game.  One of the keys to the Jax State run was on the defensive end as it pulled down 22 second half rebounds and claimed the rebounding edge in the game at 43-40.  The Orange and Black extended the lead back out to double figures and went on to post the 13-point win on a neutral court. 

The Gamecocks came out energized by Jacksonville, Fla-native Dashauna Truss, who scored all 12 of her points in the first half.  Truss nailed two three pointers in the first 20 minutes and knocked down one of them at the 14:38 mark to give Jax State its largest lead of the contest at 11-5.  Truss also had six rebounds and three assists in 30 minutes of action.

With the game even at 16-all near the ten-minute mark, CU put together an 8-0 scoring run in a two-minute span to take a 24-16 lead and eventually built its largest lead of 11 points at 37-26 with just over a minute left to play in the half.  The Lady Camels would take a 37-28 advantage into the halftime break.

CU's Tonisha Baker scored nearly half of her squad's points in the first half with 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting.  Baker concluded the contest with a game-high 22 points. 

JSU sophomore Briana Morrow concluded a solid weekend with a team-high 13 points and seven rebounds.  Morrow posted ten points on Friday versus UNF.  Sophomore Gia Banks established a new career high after being inserted into the line up for the first time in her career.  Banks turned in seven points and collected five rebounds.  Sophomore Miranda Cantrell added six points in the setback.

The Gamecocks wrap up their non-conference schedule with a road test against Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State on Thursday, Dec. 20.  Tip off is set for 7 p.m. at MSU's Humphrey Coliseum.  The game will be carried on the Gamecock Sports Network with Mike Parris courtside.