If you didn't have the chance to watch the Lady Highlanders take on UNC Asheville last night, you missed a great game. The matchup between RU and UNCA is always a hard fought battle at home and on the road. Asheville is known to be a very hard working team who never gives up and our challenge to the team in practice as well as Coach Porter's thoughts before the game were "Don't get outworked." Coach talked in the locker room about goals for things that we could do to show that we would not get outworked like taking charges, getting on the floor, and getting tips on defense. When the first half ended, we had already met all of those goals. We worked hard on both ends of the floor and came out with a 72-67 victory to put us at 5-2 in the Big South and in 3rd place one game behind Liberty and High Point. Our two starting post players played excellent games last night and have become a nightmare matchup for all of our opponents. Kelli ended the game with 18 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 blocks. Corrie had 17 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals. She gets my vote for player of the week in the conference (if I actually got a vote!). J Dub had 14 points, 4 rebounds, and 6 assists which is definitely worth mentioning. These ladies had a great game and made some big plays down the stretch for us. The plan is to pack all of that scoring and rebounding in our travel bags and head down to Rock Hill, SC tomorrow afternoon to grab another road win against Winthrop on Saturday afternoon. Wish us luck!
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