Box Score ATHENS, W.Va. – Junior forward
Andrea Bertrand scored 26 points and grabbed 13 rebounds pushing her over the 1,000-point, 500-rebounds plateaus for her career in a 90-77 defeat for the Concord University women's basketball team against Shepherd University Saturday afternoon at the Carter Center in Mountain East Conference action.
Coming into the contest, Bertrand needed one point and six rebounds to reach the career milestones. With a layup at the 16:14 mark of the first half, Bertrand became the 15th CU player to score 1,000 points in a career.
Bertrand became the sixth player in Mountain Lion history to reach 1,000 points and 500 rebounds despite being called for her fifth foul with six minutes to play.
Junior guard
Melea Smith came off the bench to post career-highs in points and rebounds with 20 points and eight boards. Smith also established a career-best in made three-pointers with four.
Through the first four minutes of action, neither team led by more than two points. Shepherd (3-21, 3-17 MEC) held a 10-8 lead at the 15:51 mark before going on a 9-0 run over the next two minutes. Unfazed, Concord answered back with an 18-8 run of its own to trim the deficit to just one point at 27-26 with 7:29 remaining in the first half. During the run, Bertrand and Smith combined for 14 of the 18 points.
SU responded with an 8-0 spurt over the next 69 seconds to push its lead to 35-26. Concord (9-15, 7-13) countered with a charge in the half's final minutes to tie the game at 39-39 with 1:10 left in the period before Shepherd scored the half's final four points to head into the break up four (43-39).
The game of runs continued into the second half as the Rams sprinted out to an 11-point lead, 50-39, in the period's initial three minutes. Concord countered by outscoring Shepherd 21-16 over the next eight minutes and trailed just 66-60 with 10 minutes left in the contest.
However, the six-point deficit was the closest the Mountain Lions could get in the second half as Shepherd managed to fight off several CU comeback attempts on its way to the 90-77 victory.
Junior forward
Jacqueline Kestner recorded her third double-double of the season with a 13-point, 11-rebound effort. Kestner finished the game 6-for-7 from the foul line and passed out four assists. Junior guard
Rachel Artrip just missed out on a double-double with 11 points and eight rebounds in addition to making a team-high three steals.
As part of her 26-point output, Bertrand shot 10-for-13 from the free throw line. It was the most made free throws she has this season. The double-double was her team-leading sixth of the season.
As a team, Concord shot 81.8 percent (18-for-22) from the foul line. The last time Concord shot at least 80 percent from the free throw line was against Shepherd last season, when they made 83.3 percent of their free throw attempts (20-for-24).
