Women's basketball earns a split on the road
Staff Reports
The Collegian
The Fresno State women’s basketball team needed a split on the
road.
After a rapid slide down the Western Athletic Conference standings through
the first half of the conference schedule dropped the Bulldogs from a
first-place tie to eighth in the WAC, Fresno State opened the second half
of its schedule with a loss to conference-leader Louisiana Tech on Thursday.
So a loss at Southen Methodist on Saturday was out of the question.
The Bulldogs knew it. And they played like it.
Fresno State avenged a 68-59 loss to SMU earlier this season when the
Bulldogs topped the Mustangs 70-62 in Dallas on Saturday.
The win marked Fresno State’s 13 of the year, matching last season’s
win total with eight games to go in the season. The win also bumped Fresno
State (13-7, 5-6 WAC) into sixth place in the conference and dropped SMU
(16-5, 7-4 WAC) into a tie for third with Rice.
Junior forward Amy Parrish led the Bulldogs with 22 points and four assists.
It was Parrish’s 11th double-digit scoring game in a row and the
fourth time in the past five games she has topped 20 points. Parrish is
averaging 16.6 points per game in 2005.
Jasmine Plummer pitched in with 12 points and Tierre Wilson had 11.
Plummer and Wilson also pulled down six rebounds apiece to lead all players
and help Fresno State outrebound SMU 40-28, the Bulldogs’ biggest
rebounding margin since they pulled down 49 boards to San Jose State’s
37 on Jan. 1.
Fresno State controlled the game inside early on, outscoring the Mustangs
18-4 in the paint in the first half, and taking a 29-27 halftime lead.
The Bulldogs then opened the second half on an 11-4 run to secure the
win.
Fresno State shot 48.2 percent for the game and limited SMU to 35.7 percent.
Janeille Dodds, who put up 22 points on the Bulldogs in January, again
led the Mustangs, with 14 points.
Kendall Shead and Katie Gross scored 13 and 12 points, respectively,
for SMU.
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