Women's Basketball 3-4-19
50
Shawnee State (Ohio) SSU 24-9
64
Winner Campbellsville (Ky.) CAMP 31-2
Shawnee State (Ohio) SSU
24-9
50
Final
64
Campbellsville (Ky.) CAMP
31-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Shawnee State (Ohio) SSU 12 11 15 12 50
Campbellsville (Ky.) CAMP 21 10 17 16 64

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Jordan Alves

Lady Tigers claim sixth Mid-South Conference Tournament Championship over Shawnee State

PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Top-seeded Lady Tiger Basketball captured the 2018-19 MSC Women's Basketball Tournament with a 64-50 win over two-seeded Shawnee State on Monday afternoon at the East Kentucky Expo Center.

The Lady Tigers avenged last year's 81-79 loss to the Bears to take home its first tournament title since the 2013-14 season.

Jordan Doram led the team with 21 points and pulled down four rebounds as Madison Faulkner joined her in double-digits with 12. Faulkner registered a double-double with 12 rebounds as the duo helped Campbellsville outscore Shawnee State 30-20 in the paint.

The 50 points for Shawnee State is also the lowest since the 2014-15 season - that loss for the Bears was a 77-45 to Campbellsville is the regular season. 

The tournament title is the sixth in program history for the Lady Tigers – 1997, 1998, 2004, 2011, 2014 and 2019. 
 
Faulkner scored the first five points for the Lady Tigers, as Sienna King made a basket and Ashton Lovely hit a three-pointer to knot the game at five with 7:37 left in the first quarter.
 
Madison Stewart would answer with a two-point basket on the other end to give the lead back to the Lady Tigers. The basket would propel Campbellsville to an 8-0 run to give Campbellsville a 13-5 lead with 4:02 remaining in the opening frame.

Campbellsville (31-2) would build the lead up to 10 with a Doram basket as Campbellsville would hold a 21-12 advantage at the end of the first.
 
The lead would hang around 10 for much of the first five minutes as a pair of Doram free throws gave Campbellsville its largest lead at 11, holding a 26-15 advantage with 5:09 remaining in the quarter.
 
Bailey Cummins and Lovely would spark a 6-0 run with threes on consecutive possessions, making it 26-21 with 4:33 left in the first half.
 
Campbellsville would limit the Bears to only two points for the remainder of the half as the Lady Tigers held a 31-23 lead heading into the half.
 
Both teams hovered around 30-percent shooting in the first half as both teams converted on three from long distance in the opening 20 minutes.
 
Campbellsville scored 16 of its 31 points off of 11 Shawnee State turnovers.
 
Bailey Cummins and Sienna King would start off the second-half strong for the Bears, making its first two baskets to make it 31-27 at the eight-minute mark. Shawnee State shot 57-percent in the first four minutes of the quarter to make it 37-32 with 3:54 remaining in the third.
 
Caitlyn Hall would make a three with under a minute left to get the lead back to 10, but Sienna King converted on a layup to make it 46-38 with 40 seconds left in the third.  Doram scored her ninth point of the quarter to give the Lady Tigers a 48-38 lead heading into the fourth.  
 
A Bailey Cummins lay in would cut the lead to 53-46 with 05:49 left, but the Lady Tigers responded with a strong answer. The quick 5-0 spurt gave the Lady Tigers its biggest lead of the game at 58-46 with 03:52 remaining in the game.
 
Campbellsville would hold onto its double-digit lead to capture its sixth MSC Tournament title in school history. The Lady Tigers shot 42-percent from the field and would limit Shawnee State to 15-percent from three, including 0-for-6 in the second half.
 
Shawnee State (24-9) was led by Cummins' 15 points as Sydney King joined her in double figures with 10. The Bears now wait for an at-large bid into the National Tournament.
 
The Lady Tigers earn the conference's automatic bid into the NAIA National Tournament and will head to Billings, Montana from March, 13-19.


Story by the Mid-South Conference
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