Shreveport– The Centenary women's basketball team lost a heartbreaker, 57-55, to the St. Thomas Celts in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference game on Friday evening at the Gold Dome.
The Ladies (0-9) and Celts (4-3) will play again on Saturday at 1 p.m. in what will be the final game of the season for Centenary as the Maroon and White will honor its 2021 senior class after the game.
Live stats and live video will be available for the game at the following links:
Live stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2020-21/boxscores/20210227_vkj0.xml
Live Video: https://collegetvticket.com/portal/centenary
Centenary played its best game of the season as it led from the start, racing out to an 11-0 lead midway through the first quarter and led 15-9 at the end of the period. The Ladies led 31-25 at halftime. The Celts finally tied the game at the 5:47 mark of the third quarter at 31-31 but the Ladies went on a 15-5 run over the final five minutes of the third period to lead 46-36 entering the fourth.
The Celts chipped away at the Ladies' lead for the first seven and a half minutes of the final quarter and finally took the lead at 53-52 with 2:22 remaining on a layup by Ce'Briaya Bell. A basket by Ladies' sophomore forward Jazzmyn Jones (Normangee, Texas) tied the game at 54-54 with 1:40 left and after a made free throw at the 1:03 mark by junior guard Alex Williams (Shreveport) tied the game at 55-55 the score remained deadlocked until St. Thomas' Zariah McInnis made a layup with one second remaining for a 57-55 lead.
St. Thomas stole the ball following a Centenary turnover with nine seconds left and after grabbing an offensive rebound following a missed layup the Celts called timeout with four seconds left before McInnis' winning basket.
Freshman guard Addy Tremie (Sulphur, La.) scored a career-high 21 points in 38 minutes on 8-21 shooting and connected on two of her five three-point attempts. She made all three of her free throws and grabbed nine rebounds. Tremie, one of the top freshmen in the conference, reached double figures for the sixth-straight game and seventh time this season. She entered Friday's play third in the SCAC in scoring (14.7 PPG), third in three-point FG's made, 14th in defensive rebounds, and 17th in overall rebounding.
Jones scored 13 points off the bench as she made 5-8 shots from the floor in 19 minutes. She also grabbed nine rebounds and had two steals and a block. She has scored 30 points in her last two games after scoring a career-high 17 on Feb. 6 versus Colorado College. Senior guard Jennae Mayberry (Clovis, Calif.) scored nine points in 36 minutes, making 2-5 shots from the field and went 5-6 from the free-throw line. She added eight rebounds, two assists, two steals, and a block.
Centenary shot 32.7 % from the floor for the night while the Celts shot 31.3 %. The Ladies outrebounded St. Thomas, 50-41, recording a new season-high single-game total for rebounds. Centenary dished out 10 assists and had eight steals and a pair of blocks. McInnis led the Celts with 19 points while Micayla Hamilton added 13. Bell contributed seven points off the bench while Jade Evans scored six with a game-high 11 rebounds.
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