Box Score (Crestview Hills, KY) - Thomas More University's womens basketball team took on Wheeling at home on Tuesday (November, 19th) afternoon. The Saints defeated the Cardinals by a final score of 77 to 48. Thomas More pick's up their first win of the season, and the first win of head coach
Brian Neal's second stint with the Saints. The Saints move to an overall record of 1-3 on the season.
- Sophomore Morgan Hunt (Hollansburg, OH / Tri-Village) got the Saints started with a basket off an assist from junior Rylee Turner (Newport, KY / Newport Central Catholic) to give the Saints the early 2-0 lead.
- On back to back possessions, Rylee Turner finds junior transfer Sereniti Webb (Covington, KY / Simon Kenton) for three pointers to make it an 8 to 3 game.
- With 3:58 to go in the opening quarter, first year Anna Drakeford (Harrodsburg, KY / Mercer County) makes a layup and gets fouled. After the free throw the Saints took a six point lead.
- With 1:01 to go, Rylee Turner knocks down a triple off an assist from junior Alaina Keeney (Wheelersburg, OH / Wheelersburg) to put the Saints in front 20 to 11.
- Anna Drakeford makes a driving layup, and Thomas More takes a 22 to 11 lead into the second quarter.
- Anna Drakeford picked up where she left off the first quarter, with a layup off an assist from Morgan Hunt.
- A triple from sophomore Laney Baker (West Harrison, OH / East Central) off an assist from Morgan Hunt gave Thomas More a 31 to 13 lead with 6:29 to go in the half.
- Thomas More continued a hot stretch of shooting thanks to back to back threes from first year Kendall Sterling (Seymour, IN / Seymour) and Laney Baker to make it a 24 point lead.
- Thomas More would go into the half with a 43 to 22 lead.
- TMU shot 18-37 from the field in the first half, and 6-19 from beyond the three point line.
- Rylee Turner got the Saints started again in the second half with a layup to make it a 23 point lead.
- Three straight three pointers from Rylee Turner, Alaina Keeney and Kendall Sterling gave the Saints a 54 to 24 point lead with 6:07 to go in the third.
- At the buzzer, Anna Drakeford makes a jumper in the lane to send us to the final quarter with the score 58 to 32 in favor of the Saints.
- Drakeford got the Saints started in the final quarter by converting an and-one to make it a 61 to 32 score.
- Junior Natalie Noel (Salem, IN / Salem) knocks down her first three pointer of the season off a pass from Laney Baker to put the lead back to 30.
- Sophomore Desiree Tandy (Danville, KY / Danville) hits a triple off a pass from Alaina Keeney with 3:04 to go to make the score 69 to 40.
- First year Amara Jackson (Huntington, WV / Huntington) gets an offensive rebound and puts it back up for two to make it a 32 point lead.
- Senior Paige Ledford (Osgood, IN / Jac-Cen-Del) takes the ball inside for a layup and gets fouled for the old fashion three point play. Making the score 77 to 44.
- Thomas More wins by a final score of 77 to 48.
- Saints shot 30-61 from the field (49.2%), 11-33 from beyond the arc (33.3%) and 6-7 (85.7%) from the free throw line.
- Anna Drakeford led the Saints in points with 16. She also recorded a steal and a rebound.
- Rylee Turner posted a team high 8 rebounds, and team high 6 assists to go with 10 points.
- Laney Baker recorded 10 points off the bench along with 3 rebounds and 3 assists.
- Morgan Hunt filled the stat sheet with 6 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals in the game.
- Eleven different Saints scored in the contest.
- Thomas More travels to Nashville, TN on Saturday (November, 23rd) to take on ex-conference opponent Trevecca Nazarene. That game is set to begin at 1:00 ET.
