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Aliyah Llanusa
52
Northeastern St. NE 2-9,0-5 Mid-America Intercollegiate
69
Winner Central Okla. CentOK 9-5,5-3 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Northeastern St. NE
2-9,0-5 Mid-America Intercollegiate
52
Final
69
Central Okla. CentOK
9-5,5-3 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Northeastern St. NE 9 9 12 22 52
Central Okla. CentOK 12 17 19 21 69

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Chris Brannick

UCO Beats NSU For 11th Time In A Row

Central Oklahoma Has Won Each Meeting Since 2016

EDMOND – The University of Central Oklahoma women's basketball team beat Northeastern State with ease Thursday night at Hamilton Field House and the win was the 11th consecutive for the Bronchos their against longtime rival.
 
Central Oklahoma 69, Northeastern State 52.
 
"We found a way tonight when I don't think we shot the ball very well," UCO head women's basketball coach Guy Hardaker said. "But we played really good defense and we did a good job of creating chances."
 
Central Oklahoma improved to 9-5 overall with the win and is now 5-3 in the MIAA. The Bronchos wrap up a three-game homestand against Rogers State on Saturday.
 
Central did use a strong defensive effort to limit Northeastern to just nine points in each of the first two quarters.
 
The Bronchos forced 22 turnovers Thursday night and half of those came on UCO steals. Brooke Rayner, who leads the team in steals and is among the MIAA leaders in that category, had a season-high four swipes Thursday. Six Bronchos had a steal and three of them had more than one.
 
Kelsey Johnson, Aliyah Llanusa, and Alayzha Knapp led the offensive effort.
 
Johnson scored 20 points on 7 of 12 shooting, including a perfect 6-for-6 night at the free-throw line. She has made 36 of her last 37 shots from the line, going perfect in each of the last three games. She's had eight games this season with a 100 percent mark from the free-throw line and is shooting 86.4 percent (70-for-81) from the line this season. She also had eight rebounds and three blocked shots to go with one assist.
 
Llanusa scored 16 points on 6 of 12 shooting. She went 2-for-3 from behind the 3-point line and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line. Llanusa added six rebounds, two assists, and two steals.
 
Knapp scored 11 points to go with five rebounds and two assists. She was 5-for-10 shooting and went 1-for-1 from the free-throw line.
 
That trio was a combined 18-for-34 overall Thursday night.
 
Clary Donica added 10 points off the bench and she had six rebounds. Rayner added four points to go with her four steals, three assists and two rebounds. Jaci Littell, Taylor Dement, Karly Wadsworth and Rory Geer all scored two points to aid the effort.
 
Central never trailed Thursday.
 
Johnson scored the first six points of the game for the Bronchos, Donica scored the next four, and Dement added her two on a pair of free-throws. But that 12 points was all Central had in the first quarter, holding a 12-9 lead.
 
Northeastern State tied the game, 12-12, to start the second quarter, but after Llanusa scored her first bucket with a driving layup in the paint, Central never looked back. Llanusa scored the first seven points of the second quarter for the Bronchos and gave Central a 19-15 lead.
 
After NSU hit another 3-pointer to make it 19-18 with 7:05 to play in the second quarter, the Bronchos clamped down and held the Riverhawks scoreless for the remainder of the half.
 
Johnson scored eight more in the quarter and Knapp added her first bucket. Central led 29-18 at the half.
 
The Bronchos continued to pull away in the second half, outscoring NSU 19-12 in the third quarter to take a commanding 48-30 lead into the final frame.
 
Northeastern did outscore Central in the last 10 minutes, 22-21, but couldn't close the insurmountable gap.
 
Central finished the night 26 of 71 shooting, a 36.6 percent mark. The Bronchos were only 2-for-11 from behind the arc, but Central did go 15-for-15 from the free-throw line Thursday night.
 
 
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