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FMU player
Charles Bethel Jr.
66
Florida Memorial FMUW 6-7, 6-6
74
Winner Keiser University KUW 10-6, 7-4
Florida Memorial FMUW
6-7, 6-6
66
Final
74
Keiser University KUW
10-6, 7-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Florida Memorial FMUW 16 24 18 8 66
Keiser University KUW 18 11 23 22 74

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | J.T. Wilcox, Sports Information Director

Lions Can’t Overcome Keiser’s Hot Shooting, Fall Thursday

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – There's an idiom used to describe the NBA that calls it a "make or miss league".
 
That saying is actually apt for the sport as a whole at any level.
 
Florida Memorial University's women's basketball team had to deal with the not-so-great part of that truth as it missed more than it would've hoped and saw host Keiser University make half of it shots, as the Lady Lions fell 74-66 Thursday night in the KU Student Life Center.
 
Florida Memorial (6-7, 6-6 The Sun Conference), which led 40-29 at halftime, made just five total field goals in the second half (5-of-23) while Keiser made 60 percent of its shots through the third and fourth quarters and outscored FMU 45-26 over the final 20 minutes of the game.
 
The Lions, who will host Ave Maria University this coming Saturday (Jan. 23), ended up shooting 35 percent from the field and just under 32 percent from three-point range Thursday while the Seahawks knocked down 50 percent of their total shots from the field (25-for-50) and shot 41 percent from long distance.
 
FMU junior guard Keaynna Tolbert led all scorers with 27 points. The Sun Conference's leading scorer was Florida Memorial's most effective and efficient offensive option Thursday, as she shot a team-best 50 percent from the field (9-for-18) while tying Heather Durand for the team-high rebound total with 7.
 
Durand scored 11 points to go along with her 7 boards; Jamari Tillman, who made her return to the Lions' lineup after missing the previous game for an undisclosed reason, also added 11 points in 35 minutes of action. Unfortunately, both Tillman and Durand shot below 30 percent from the field. Also, freshman guard Chantel Barnett, who had begun to emerge as a viable offensive weapon for Lions head coach Gregory Stanback, had her streak of games scoring at least 13 points snapped as she only totaled 7 Thursday.
 
Before the Lions' offensive production waned, they much more resembled the team that's been the Sun Conference's No. 1 scoring team this season. After falling behind 10-0 to start the game and trailing 18-12 late in the first quarter, Florida Memorial went on an elongated 15-0 run that Tolbert capped with a put-back layup to give the Lions a 27-18 lead with 6:21 left in the second quarter.
 
FMU extended its second-quarter lead to double digits right after Tolbert sank a three-pointer just before the halftime buzzer.
 
The Lady Lions did a solid job of containing Keiser's leading scorer and Sun Conference's No. 1 three-point shooter Emily Patton – holding the senior to just 6 points. FMU was hurt most by Keiser's Andressa Nascimento's 23 points and 9 rebounds and 13 points from each Keondra Smith and Antigonie Sanabria. 
 
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