The Austin College women’s basketball team split its two games last week, falling 72-68 to the University of Texas-Dallas before topping Hendrix 70-66. Brittany Stepanski averaged 16.5 points and 6.5 rebounds while hitting 14-of-26 shots for the week, while Erin Riley recorded two double-doubles, averaging 11.5 points and 11.0 points while hitting 5-of-12 three pointers. Christina Kime also had a strong week, scoring 15 against UTD and 13 against Hendrix while averaging 3.5 assists per game. Brooke Melton had a double-double against Hendrix with 11 points and 11 boards, and averaged 11.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game during the week. 

Centenary dropped a 98-47 decision at Mississippi College on Saturday afternoon to fall to 0-5 on the season. The Choctaws improve to 2-1 on the campaign. Freshmen Haley Deshautelle and Lizzie Moran paced the Ladies in scoring. Deshautelle posted her second straight contest with double figures leading the way with 17 points – a point shy of tying her career-high. Moran added 11 points for the Maroon and White – a career-high for the Toledo Bend, La., native. Kayla Ruth grabbed a team-best and season-high eight rebounds. Centenary, which never led in the contest, shot 27.3-percent from the field in the contest and were 2-for-14 from behind the arc. MC connected on 56-percent of its shots and 2-of-6 from three-point land. Centenary returns to action on Friday, Dec. 6 as the Ladies open Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference action against Austin College. Tip-off at the Gold Dome is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Colorado College began its Thanksgiving Classic with an 85-62 loss to Carleton College on Friday at Reid Arena. The Tigers were unable to overcome the Knights’ exceptional shooting from long range, hitting 13-of-33 shots from beyond the arc for a 39.4 three-point field-goal percentage. CC held a 4-3 lead after junior Courtney Tyus scored with 17:54 remaining in the opening half, but that proved to be the Tigers’ only lead as Carleton went on an 11-0 run to build a 14-4 cushion at the 16:03 mark. Colorado College pulled to with five points late in the half when sophomore Danielle Davis made a pair of free throws with 3:20 left, but the Knights finished with a 12-5 run to head into intermission up 48-36. Tyus paced the Tigers with a team-best 14 points and five steals, while Davis added 13 points. Freshman Esra Siddeek also scored in double figures with 10 points. Despite career-high performances from Tyus and Davis, CC came out on the wrong end of an 88-80 decision against Otterbein University on Saturday. Tyus scored a career-best 21 points and tied her season high of nine assists. Davis contributed a career-high 19 points. The Tigers sank a season-best 27 of 59 shots from the field, good for a 45.8 field-goal percentage, but the charity stripe was the determining factor as Colorado College gave up 33 extra points from the free-throw line. CC plays host Johnson & Wales University on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Dallas was idle over the Thanksgiving holiday, but will play three games this week -- vs. Dallas Christian College (Tuesday, 5 p.m.); at Arlington Baptist College (Thursday, 5 p.m.); vs. Millsaps College (Saturday, 1 p.m.).

Schreiner went 1-1 on the weekend with a win over Hardin-Simmons early in the week before falling to Howard Payne on the weekend. The Mountaineers will take on Hutson-Tillotson on the road on Monday and will take the rest of the week off.

Southwestern traveled to San Antonio for a pair of neutral-site contests after the holiday and found themselves in two tight games. Saturday, Audrey Garcia sparked a rally with nine straight points in the second half to give SU their first lead since five minutes into the game, setting the Pirates up for the 81-70 win. Sunday, fortunes fell against Southwestern as they struggled to hit the shot they needed in the final 1:37 as Southern Arkansas snuck in to steal the win 73-71. Annie Bourne had a huge game with 26 points and 10 rebounds. The Pirates fall to 2-4 on the year and open SCAC conference action against rival Trinity in San Antonio on December 4th. 

Texas Lutheran rolled to an 84-61 non-conference win over Northwood (Texas) in Memorial Gymnasium. TLU, playing out of the NCAA Divison III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, improved to 3-2 overall. The Bulldogs have won two in a row. Northwood, a member of the NAIA and the Sooner Athletic Conference, dropped to 5-3 overall. The Bulldogs’ bench produced three double-digit scorers and out-scored the Northwood bench 57-30. First-year players Kristen Lye and Savannah Height combined for 29 points and 19 rebounds. Lye scored a team-high 15 and grabbed a team-best 10 rebounds (eight on the offensive glass). She also finished with five assists. Height scored 14, collected nine rebounds and hit three of her six three-point attempts. Lye and Height were joined in bench production by junior point guard Karisa Cantu, who scored 14 points, delivered five assists and grabbed four rebounds. Cantu, Lye and Height were a combined 17 of 32 from the floor (53.1 percent). Taylor Dydalewicz and Bianca Casas each scored nine for TLU. Dydalewicz chipped in four rebounds, and Casas added two rebounds, two assists and two steals. TLU out-rebounded Northwood 55-38 and held the Knights to 34.4 percent shooting from the field and to 19 percent from the three-point line. Northwood made just four of its 21 three-point attempts. TLU opened a 44-25 lead at the half and led by as many as 26 in the second half.

No. 25 Trinity went 3-0 over the past week, improving the team’s record to 6-1 on the season.  The Tigers won a pair of games at the Trinity Thanksgiving Tournament, beating Division II Southern Arkansas University and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on consecutive days.  Trinity downed another D-II team to start the week on a positive note, winning at Angelo State University on Monday night. Up next for the Tigers will be the team’s SCAC opener against Southwestern University on Wednesday night.  Trinity will then travel to St. Louis, Missouri, for a pair of games at the McWilliams Classic Tournament, hosted by Washington (MO) University.  The Tigers begin with a game against UC-Santa Cruz on Friday, with the winner playing in the Championship game on Saturday afternoon.