Austin Peay Lady Govs Basketball’s slow second half start key in loss to SIU Edwardsville

APSU Sports: Austin Peay Women’s Basketball

Edwardsville, IL – All it took was seven and a half minutes and Austin Peay State University women’s basketball team saw its halftime lead dissolve into a 72-61 Ohio Valley Conference loss to SIU Edwardsville, Monday night, at the Vadalabene Center.

Austin Peay (5-16, 2-6 OVC) led 34-32 at the halftime break. However, the Lady Govs offense stalled out of the gate in the second half, failing to score a basket on its first 14 possessions covering 7:30. Austin Peay committed nine turnovers in that opening span, missed four shots and scored its lone point on Jasmine Rayner’s 1-of-2 trip at the line

 

SIU Edwardsville (11-8, 5-3 OVC) used a 13-1 run over that opening 7:30 to build a 10-point, 45-35 lead. Katie Hempen scored the Cougars’ first five points and was one of four SIUE players to score during the burst.

Whitney Hanley ended Austin Peay’s shooting drought with a basket at the 12:37 mark and Kaitlyn Hill scored the game’s next basket to trim the lead to six points, 47-39, with 12:00 left. But SIUE scored the next four points to start a 11-4 run that gave it a lead APSU would not threaten.

The Cougars scored the game’s first eight points and looked poised to run away early. But Austin Peay responded with  a 17-3 run that included individual six-point bursts by Leslie Martinez and Nicole Olszewski, to take a 17-11 lead with 12:30 left in the first half.

Later in the first, SIUE used another 13-4 run to build a 30-25 advantage with only 3:12 remaining in the period. Austin Peay scored the half’s final seven points, the last five by Hanley, to take a two-point halftime lead.

The second half woes overshadowed an impressive night for Kaitlyn Hill who recorded her first career double-double in front of her family. Hill had a career-high 10 points in the first half alone and finished the game with 14 points and a career-high 13 rebounds.

Hanley snapped out of her recent shooting woes to score a game-high 25 points on 9-of-16 shooting while also grabbing five rebounds. However, no other Lady Govs player had more than 10 points.

Austin Peay tied a season-high with 26 turnovers, including 14 in the second half that SIUE turned into 14 points. The Lady Govs did win the rebounding battle – by a slim 44-43 margin – for the first time in conference play.

Hempen led SIUE with 17 points off the bench. Raven Berry and Michaela Herrod each recorded double-doubles. Berry finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds while Herrod posted 13 points and 17 rebounds.

The Copies in a Flash APSU Player of the Game was Kaitlyn Hill.

Next Game

Lady Govs Host OVC’s Top Scoring Squad

Austin Peay returns home for a visit from UT Martin – the OVC top-scoring squad – in a 5:15pm, Saturday contest at the Dunn Center. The second-place Skyhawks are averaging 87.0 points per game in league action, including an 84-61 victory at Eastern Kentucky, Saturday.

The two squads have split their regular-season series the past two seasons, the home team winning each of the last four games. Austin Peay won a 69-61 decision in Clarksville last season.

Box Score

Austin Peay vs SIU Edwardsville
01/23/12 – 7:00pm at Edwardsville, IL/Vadalabene Center

 Austin Peay 61

			Total	3-point		Rebounds
##	Player	p	fgm-fga	fgm-fga	ftm-fta	off-def	tot	pf	tp	a	to	blk	stl	min
00	RAYNER, Jasmine	*	1-6	0-0	3-4	2-7	9	3	5	1	4	0	1	32
05	OLSZEWSKI, Nicole	*	4-9	0-1	0-0	0-1	1	4	8	5	7	1	2	32
12	HANLEY, Whitney	*	9-16	2-4	5-6	2-5	7	3	25	1	4	0	2	35
14	MARTINEZ, Leslie	*	3-9	0-3	0-1	2-4	6	5	6	1	4	0	1	24
44	OLSZEWSKI, Shelby	*	1-4	1-2	0-1	1-1	2	5	3	4	5	0	1	30
03	BULEY, Shira	–	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
04	STAINBACK, Kristen	–	0-3	0-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	13
33	MCKENNEY, Somalia	–	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
42	HILL, Kaitlyn	–	7-12	0-0	0-4	7-6	13	4	14	0	2	0	1	31
TM	TEAM	–	–	–	–	0-5	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Totals…………..	–	25-59	3-13	8-16	14-30	44	27	61	12	26	1	9	200
			42.4%	23.1%	50.0%
	Team summary:		FG	3FG	FT
	1st Half:		15-34	2-7	2-4
			44.1%	28.6%	50.0%
	2nd Half:		10-25	1-6	6-12
			40.0%	16.7%	50.0%

SIU Edwardsville 72

			Total	3-point		Rebounds
##	Player	p	fgm-fga	fgm-fga	ftm-fta	off-def	tot	pf	tp	a	to	blk	stl	min
01	DUNCAN, Melia	*	1-3	1-2	0-0	1-1	2	4	3	4	0	0	2	22
22	HILL, Jazmin	*	4-10	3-9	1-3	1-0	1	1	12	1	1	0	1	28
24	KENNER, Courtney	*	2-7	1-2	4-12	0-1	1	2	9	2	3	0	2	35
25	HERROD, Michaela	*	6-15	0-0	1-4	7-10	17	2	13	3	0	0	1	31
45	BERRY, Raven	*	6-11	0-0	2-3	3-10	13	2	14	4	2	1	4	33
10	HEMPEN, Katie	–	6-15	1-6	4-4	1-1	2	1	17	2	3	0	2	31
11	CONNER, Kiara	–	1-1	0-0	2-2	1-1	2	2	4	0	3	0	0	7
12	MEADE, Madison	–	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
15	FINNIN, Valerie	–	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
23	AUSTIN, Tierny	–	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-1	1	4	0	1	3	0	0	9
TM	TEAM	–	–	–	–	3-0	3	–	–	–	1	–	–	–
	Totals…………..	–	26-63	6-19	14-28	17-26	43	18	72	17	17	1	12	200
			41.3%	31.6%	50.0%
	Team summary:		FG	3FG	FT
	1st Half:		12-34	3-10	5-7
			35.3%	30.0%	71.4%
	2nd Half:		14-29	3-9	9-21
			48.3%	33.3%	42.9%

Score by Periods	1st	2nd	Total
Austin Peay	34	27	61	Record: (5-16, 2-6 OVC)
SIU Edwardsville	32	40	72	Record: (11-8, 5-3 OVC)

Points in the paint-APSU 22,SIUE 16. Points off turnovers-APSU 16,SIUE 15.

2nd chance points-APSU 10,SIUE 10. Fast break points-APSU 6,SIUE 2.

Bench points-APSU 10,SIUE 6. Score tied-4 times. Lead changed-3 times.

Last FG-APSU 1st-00:49, SIUE 1st-02:18.

Largest lead-APSU by 6 1st-12:30, SIUE by 8 1st-18:42.

 

Officials: Cole Womack, Kelly Dennis, Mike Brasher Technical fouls: Austin Peay-MARTINEZ, Leslie. SIU Edwardsville-BERRY, Raven. Attendance: 822