Box Score AIKEN, S.C. – The nationally 15th-ranked
University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team avenged
an earlier loss to UNC Pembroke in a 58-44 Peach Belt Conference
home win over the Braves on Saturday evening at the Convocation
Center.
USC Aiken (19-3, 12-2 PBC) is now a perfect 10-0 at home in the
2011-12 regular season.
Three Pacers finished in double figures in the win over UNC
Pembroke (11-11, 8-6 PBC) with Lindsay
Sundberg (Mansfield, Conn./E.O. Smith HS) tying her career-high
with 17 points. Sundberg finished the first half with 14 points on
4-of-4 shooting from beyond the arc. She was 6-for-9 from the field
in total in the Pacer win.
Kayla
Harris (Raleigh, N.C./Wakefield HS) ended Saturday's win over
UNC Pembroke with 13 points and five rebounds. She also had three
assists.
Daniela
Tarailo (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point HS) was the final Pacer
in double figures in the game with 10 points. Tarailo just missed
on a double-double as she also corralled a team-best eight rebounds
in the contest.
Mia
Antoine (Stone Mountain, Ga./Dominion Christian HS) did not
score in double figures, but she did dish out a team-high seven
assists.
Jazmine Kemp led UNC Pembroke in its loss to the Pacers with 14
points and five rebounds.
USC Aiken concluded the win over UNC Pembroke shooting 36.1
percent (22-for-61) as a team. The Pacer defense held UNC Pembroke
to just 31.3 percent (15-for-48) shooting as a squad.
UNC Pembroke did not reach double-digits in the game until there
was just under three minutes left in the first half.
In fact, USC Aiken held UNC Pembroke scoreless for a 10-minute
stretch in the first half to go up by as many as 17.
The Pacers would lead by as many as 21 in the second half before
emerging with the 14-point victory.
USC Aiken will next face off against rival Augusta State in
Augusta, Ga. on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30
p.m.