Women's Basketball

January 5, 2008

Tiger Women Finish SCAC Weekend Sweep Saturday

Jackson, Mississippi - The Tiger women's basketball team finished off a weekend sweep in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play with an 85-71 win over Millsaps College on Saturday night.

Trinity (9-2, 4-0) led 42-32 at the half, and never trailed in the game.  The Tigers scored the first eight points of the game, and held a 22-9 lead less than eight minutes into the game.  Millsaps got no closer than seven points the rest of the period.

Several minutes into the second half, Millsaps did mount a comeback with an 8-0 run that made it a 50-46 Trinity lead.  The Tigers responded with a 14-3 spurt that pushed the lead back to 15 points with 9:38 remaining, essentially sealing the win.

Meghan Scholbe and Krista Prato Matthews scored 16 points each for Trinity, combining to hit 14-21 shots from the field.  Neither played more than 25 minutes in the game.  Scholbe added five rebounds and three assists, while Prato Matthews finished with seven boards.

Scholbe also became the 49th player in SCAC history to reach 500 rebounds in a career.  She came into the game with 496 career rebounds, and is the 13th player in Trinity history to reach the milestone. 

Tierney Hughes scored 12 points and added six assists, hitting 4-7 from three-point range.  Martha King came off the bench to hit 5-5 from the field for 10 points, as well as recording four blocked shots. 

Ronda Webb led all players with 29 points for Millsaps, while Tiffany Whitmore finished with 19 points and six assists.  Both players also had eight rebounds.

Trinity will return home on Saturday to face Southwestern University at 3:00 p.m.  The following Monday (January 14), the team will host East Texas Baptist University.