ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University women's basketball finished the first quarter on an 18-0 run and never looked back as it downed Alderson Broaddus, 95-54, Wednesday night in a Mountain East Conference game at the Carter Center.
With CU (5-4) holding a 14-10 advantage just after the first media timeout of the game, Concord begin to pull away from the Battlers (4-5). Senior forward
Riley Fitzwater started the run with back-to-back layups, then sophomore guard
Jazz Blankenship got into the action as she scored 14 straight points for the Mountain Lions including a running bank shot down the right side of the lane as time expired in the first quarter.
Alderson Broaddus was able to get the lead under 20 just once in the second quarter as senior guard
Keely Lundy assured the momentum belonged to CU at halftime, burying a three-pointer to stretch the lead to 51-27 at the break.
After being held to 19 points in the second quarter, the Mountain Lions recorded another 30-point period in the third. Similar to the first period, the Concord bench led the way with 22 of the 30 points.
Freshman guard
Maddie Ratcliff scored all 11 of her points in the third while sophomore guard
Ashton Funderburg chipped in six.
Concord led by as much as 43 points in the fourth quarter before settling for the 41-point win.
As a team, the Mountain Lions shot 46.2 percent (30-for-65) while canning 9-of-20 three-pointers (45 percent). Blankenship and Lundy each hit three three-pointers with Lundy's first-quarter three-pointer being the 100
th of her career.
Defensively, CU held the Battlers to 29.5 percent (23-for-78) and 14.8 percent (4-of-27) from three-point range.
Fitzwater posted game high in both points (18) and rebounds (14) for her seventh double-double of the season. The Glenville, West Virginia native also had seven blocks. Fitzwater and Ratcliff were joined in double figures by Blankenship's career-high 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting.
Three more players—junior guard
Maggie Guynn, Lundy and freshman guard
Jaisah Smith—finished with nine points.
The 95 points were a season best and the 41-point win was the largest margin of victory for Concord since joining Division II in 1994-95.
Concord visits Notre Dame 2:00 p.m. Saturday.
