GREENWOOD, S.C. – Four Pacers finished in double figures and the 17^th-ranked University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team rebounded from its first loss of the year one day earlier by besting national No. 27 Barton, 64-52, in its final game of the Lander Lady Bearcats Tip-Off Classic at Horne Arena.

Barton had upset national No. 10 Lander one day earlier, 74-72.

USC Aiken (2-1) out-shot Barton (1-1) 52 percent to 28 percent from the floor and out-rebounded the Bulldogs, 47-30.

Hannah DeGraffinreed (Raleigh, N.C./Merrimack College) made eight of 11 shots from the floor to lead USC Aiken. Kayla Harris (Raleigh, N.C./Wakefield) added 14 points as well as game highs in rebounds (12) and assists (seven). Twelve of her 14 points came in the second half.

Mia Antoine (Stone Mountain, Ga./Dominion Christian) added 12 points for the Pacers while Daniela Tarailo (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point) scored 10. Lindsay Sundberg (Mansfield, Conn./E.O. Smith) had seven rebounds while DeGraffinreed grabbed six.

Nyeshea Willie led the Bulldogs with 13 points and six steals. Jolanda Mitchell led Barton with eight rebounds.

USC Aiken, which led all but one minute of the game, made 27 of 52 shots from the floor (52 percent), seven of 13 free throws (54 percent) and three of six from 3-point range (50 percent).

Barton hit 18 of 64 shots (28 percent), 14 of 18 free throws (78 percent) and two of nine from behind the arc (22 percent). The Bulldogs' only statistical advantage was in turnovers. They forced 26 USC Aiken turnovers while committing 13.

USC Aiken took an 8-2 lead in the first two minutes of the game, but went almost eight minutes before scoring again. Willie's jumper gave Barton its first lead at 9-8 at the 11:13 mark. It would turn out to be the team's only lead of the game.

DeGraffinreed's inside basket ended the scoring drought, putting the Pacers back on top, 10-9, with 10:13 left. Tarailo hit the game's first 3-pointer, giving USC Aiken a 17-13 lead with 6:35 to go and Antoine's three-point play increased the lead to 22-17.

Porsha Martin (Douglasville, Ga./South Paulding) scored inside on consecutive possessions, handing the Pacers their largest lead of the first half at 26-17 with 3:26 left.

Mitchell's free throws cut Barton's deficit to 28-23 with 59 seconds remaining. But Sundberg's three-point play with 31 seconds left gave USC Aiken a 31-23 halftime lead.

Tarailo's jumper two minutes into the second half gave the Pacers their first double-digit lead at 35-24. But what followed was a long scoreless drought on both ends of the court. Barton's Jannetta Robinson hit one free throw to make it 35-25 at the 17:40 mark, and neither team scored again until 13:09 was left when Mitchell made the Bulldogs' first field goal of the second half.

Faith Hunter's 3-pointer, Barton's first from behind the arc in the game, cut the deficit to 37-30 with 12:46 to go. The Pacers responded by building their lead back into double digits when Harris scored inside and Brittany Hill (Mechanicsville, Va./Quinnipiac) made a back-door layup off a pass from DeGraffinreed for a 41-30 advantage at the 11:34 mark.

The action picked up at around the seven-minute mark when Willie's 3-pointer from the right wing pulled the Bulldogs within 46-39, Tarailo answered with a 3-pointer for USC Aiken, then Barton's Elaine Morgan sliced inside and made a nice pass to Janae Jackson for a lay-up.

Robinson's driving lay-up gave Barton its smallest deficit of the second half at six points, 49-43, with 5:50 to go. But Antoine's 3-pointer bumped USC Aiken's lead back to nine.

Willie hit two free throws to pull the Bulldogs within 52-47 at the 4:23 mark. But Antoine once again responded with a 3-pointer from the same spot on the floor to give USC Aiken a 54-47 advantage with 4:10 left. 

After a scoreless trip for Barton, DeGraffinreed pulled off another back-door assist, this one to Harris, to make it 56-47 with 3:22 to go.

After an exchange of free throws, DeGraffinreed out-jumped a Barton defender for a pass near mid-court and drove in for a layup to restore the Pacers' double-figure lead at 60-50 with two minutes left.

Harris hit a jumper at the 1:29 mark and made a layup with the shot clock winding down with 30 seconds to go to complete the scoring.

USC Aiken will next travel to Salisbury, N.C. to play in the Catawba Comfort Suites Classic. USC Aiken will open the event at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 25 against host Catawba. The very next day the Pacers will hit the hardwood against Barton for the second time in less than a week.