Troy University Athletics
Saturday, February 20
Boone, N.C.
12 p.m.
Troy University
13-12 (8-8SBC)
100
at
89
Appalachian State
8-17 (5-11SBC)
1
2
3
4
OT 1
F
Troy
23
21
25
16
15
100
Appalachian State
11
17
31
26
4
89
Team Stats
TROY
APP
FG%
.438
.446
3FG%
.370
.318
FT%
.714
.667
RB
49
45
TO
21
26
STL
13
8
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
32
FGM
12
3FGM
5
FTM
3
Pts
29
FGM
9
3FGM
0
FTM
11
Pts
14
FGM
6
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Players Mentioned
G
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/ Basketball (W)
G
/ Basketball (W)F
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Photo by: Dave Mayo
Troy Women Dominate in Overtime to Beat Appalachian State
2/20/2016 3:29:00 PM | Basketball (W)
BOONE, North Carolina – The Troy women's basketball team saw a lead slip away, but dominated overtime in a 100-89 win over Appalachian State at the Holmes Center on Saturday.
Troy (13-12, 8-8) held the Mountaineers to 1-of-7 shooting in overtime, outscored them by 11 points, 15-4, and outrebounded them by nine, 12-3. Troy scored 100 points for the sixth time this season, a program record, behind a combined 61 points from Ashley Beverly Kelley and ArJae' Saunders.
Beverly Kelley scored 32 for the 10th 30-point game of her career and also dished out a game-high eight assists. The senior, who leads the Sun Belt in scoring, hit a 3-pointer in the game's first seven seconds, setting the tone for a 5-of-10 effort from deep. She hit 12-of-27 from the floor and moved into second in Troy history and 17th in Sun Belt history with 1,825 career points.
Saunders scored a career-high 29 points, pulled in seven rebounds and recorded five assists. The junior was 11-of-15 from the free throw line as she scored in double figures for the 10th time in the last 12 games.
Beverly Kelley scored 10 in the first quarter and Troy raced out to an early lead, pulling ahead by as many as 22 in the second quarter. The Trojans led by 16 points, 44-28, at halftime, but Appalachian State (8-17, 5-11) didn't go away in the second half.
The Mountaineers shot 10-of-18 in the third quarter, 11-of-17 in the fourth, and eventually chipped away at the lead. App State took its first lead, 84-83, with 1:32 to go on a layup by KeKe Cooper, but Beverly Kelley put Troy right back ahead on the next possession with a baseline jumper to make it 85-84 with 1:16 to go.
App State got two offensive rebounds on the next possession with Bria Carter getting fouled on the last. Carter made one of two free throws, tying the game, 85-85 with 50 seconds left. Troy missed a 3-pointer late in the shot clock on its next possession and App State came away with possession with 4.2 seconds remaining.
The Mountaineers, inbounding in front of their bench, tried to lob the ball to the rim, but the Trojans batted the lob away and forced overtime.
In overtime, Troy scored the first seven points, capped by a Beverly Kelley 3-pointer. The Mountaineers finally scored on a layup by Joi Jones, then got within four, 93-89, on two free throws from Jones with 2:29 to go.
That is when Troy's Ta'Kierra Gibbs scored five straight points for Troy, her only five of the game, to put things out of reach, 98-89, with 1:17 to go. Gibbs and Kristen Emerson were the key players in overtime as Emerson grabbed seven of her 12 rebounds in the extra period.
Caitlyn Ramirez was the third Trojan to score in double figures, adding 14 points, but she fouled out with 5:57 left in the fourth, forcing Emerson to play much of the game's final 10 minutes.
Jones led Appalachian State with 22 points on 10-of-18 shooting. Madi Story scored 19 points, all in the second half as the catalyst for the Mountaineers comeback. The Mountaineers shot 45 percent (33-of-74) for the game overall, 32 percent (7-of-22) from deep and 16-of-24 from the line.
Troy hit 44 percent (35-of-80) overall, 37 percent (10-of-27) from deep and 20-of-28 from the line. Troy forced the Mountaineers into 26 turnovers and scored 25 points off of them.
Troy returns home on Thursday when it will host UL Lafayette at 5:15 p.m. at Trojan Arena. That is Troy's second to last home game as ULM will visit next Saturday on Senior Day.
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