Box Score THE RUNDOWN
AUSTIN, Texas – UAFS used a strong second half to push past the St. Edward's women's basketball team Thursday at the RCC, 72-60. Micayla Haynes scored 24 points off the bench for the Lions (11-6, 4-1) and the visitors outscored SEU (8-8, 2-2) 43-31 in the second half.

The teams were knotted at 29 at halftime, and despite its third-best shooting effort of the season from the floor, SEU could not overcome 22 turnovers in defeat. The Hilltoppers shot 46.3 percent from the floor on 25-of-54 shooting with ISABEL HERNANDEZ leading SEU with a season-high 22 points.

The Lions made the difference by scoring 25 points of SEU's 22 turnovers, and their bench outscored the Hilltoppers reserves 51-17.

BAILEY HILL added 11 points, ABIGAIL WHYTE contributed nine and ABBY HOPPER matched a season-high with 10 rebounds in the losing effort for the Hilltoppers.


HIGHLIGHTS
• ISABEL HERNANDEZ scored a season-high 22 points on 9-of-16 shooting; it marked the 12th time this season she's hit double figures.
• BAILEY HILL's 11 points included three 3-point field goals helping her surpass the 100 career 3-point field goals mark with her first, and she moved to seventh place all-time at 102 passing LEXI FATHEREE (100, 2014-17).
• Hill has scored in double figures 22 times in her career and seven times this season.
• ABBY HOPPER's 10 rebounds tied a season high, and it marked the fifth time in her career (second time this season) that she's grabbed double-digit rebounds.

STAT OF THE GAME I
20 – UAFS earned 20 trips to the free-throw line and converted 16 while SEU reached the foul line just six times.

THEY SAID IT
SEU Head Coach J.J. Riehl on the loss to UAFS …
"A tough one tonight. We were great in the first half, really locked in, really executed the scout. That last play there, Haley [Joly] got her foot stepped on, and I think her injury really sucked some of the wind out of our sails. I think we were really flat out of the locker room and I could tell. You kind of have a feeling with your kids and your team. We challenged them in the huddle right before they went out and we told them they were flat. I mean, it's one of those things. It's tough. I think we felt sorry for ourselves at some moments, and we let the score dictate what we were going to do in the present moment that we were in. But, the kids got out of that moment, and I thought we finished pretty strong. That game could have gotten really, really out of control and ugly really quickly, so hats off to them for getting themselves back together, and fighting, and doing what we do and at least finishing it respectfully."

WHAT'S NEXT
SEU resumes Heartland Conference play at home Saturday vs. Rogers State at 1 p.m.