Edwardsville, IL – Austin Peay State University women’s basketball team built its largest lead of the campaign and then held on for a 77-67 Ohio Valley Conference victory against SIU Edwardsville, Monday night, at the Vadalabene Center.
The Lady Govs put together one of their finest halves of the season and built a 20-point, 42-22, halftime advantage.
Austin Peay then opened the second half with an 11-4 run to build its largest lead of the season – a 27-point, 53-26, advantage with 16:32 remaining.
SIUE (5-14, 2-5 OVC) began chipping away at that deficit, first with an 11-2 run over the game’s next four minutes that cut the deficit to 18 points, 55-37. Austin Peay pushed the lead back to 21 points thanks to junior Kristen Stainback’s three-pointer at the 10:50 mark.
The Cougars then cut the deficit to 13 points with a 14-6 run over the next five minutes, leaving APSU with a 70-57 lead. Sophomore Tiasha Gray hit a three-pointer at the 5:26 mark to give the Lady Govs a brief respite. However, it would be Austin Peay’s final field goal of the contest.
Austin Peay would go 0-for-4 from the floor in the final five minutes and converted 4-of-7 from the free-throw line. However, SIUE could not make inroads into the deficit as it made just 2-of-10 from the floor and 5-of-9 from the free-throw line. The result was a 10-4 SIUE game-ending run that could not close the deficit.
The Lady Govs opened the game with an impressive first-half performance. Austin Peay forced SIUE to commit 17 turnovers thanks to a 12-steal performance that tied APSU’s single-season best.
The Lady Govs then shot 41.7 percent (15-of-36) from the floor while limiting the Cougars to 34.5 percent (10-of-29) shooting. Austin Peay enjoyed a 24-point advantage in the frame before settling on the 20-point lead.Sophomore Tiasha Gray came off the bench and for the third-straight game led APSU, scoring 20 points at SIUE with four assists and four steals. Freshman Tearra Banks added a career-high 19 points to APSU’s winning performance.
Junior Kristen Stainback chipped in 15 points and senior Nicole Olszewski added 12 points.
Tierny Austin posted a 21-point, 11-rebound performance to pace SIUE. Off the bench, Jessie Wendt and Raven Warford supplied 11 and 10 points, respectively.
Austin Peay returns home and will seek to end a 10-game OVC home losing streak when it hosts Tennessee Tech in a 3:00pm, Saturday contest.
Box Score
Austin Peay Lady Govs vs. SIU Edwardsville
Monday, January 20th, 2014 | 7:00pm
Edwardsville, IL | Vadalabene Center
Austin Peay 77
| Total | 3-point | Rebounds | ||||||||||||
| ## | Player | p | fgm-fga | fgm-fga | ftm-fta | off-def | tot | pf | tp | a | to | blk | stl | min |
| 04 | STAINBACK, Kristen | * | 6-15 | 1-7 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 40 |
| 05 | OLSZEWSKI, Nicole | * | 4-8 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 40 |
| 14 | RATES, Beth | * | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 2-5 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 |
| 21 | NWOKOCHA, Jennifer | * | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 27 |
| 44 | SCOTT, Jacey | * | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 01 | GRAY, Tiasha | – | 7-15 | 4-6 | 2-2 | 0-3 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 27 |
| 25 | BANKS, Tearra | – | 8-14 | 0-0 | 3-7 | 4-3 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| TM | TEAM | – | – | – | – | 0-2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Totals………….. | – | 29-63 | 7-19 | 12-20 | 10-27 | 37 | 18 | 77 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 200 | |
| 46.0% | 36.8% | 60.0% | ||||||||||||
| Team summary: | FG | 3FG | FT | |||||||||||
| 1st Half: | 15-36 | 4-12 | 8-11 | |||||||||||
| 41.7% | 33.3% | 72.7% | ||||||||||||
| 2nd Half: | 14-27 | 3-7 | 4-9 | |||||||||||
| 51.9% | 42.9% | 44.4% | ||||||||||||
SIUE 67
| Total | 3-point | Rebounds | ||||||||||||
| ## | Player | p | fgm-fga | fgm-fga | ftm-fta | off-def | tot | pf | tp | a | to | blk | stl | min |
| 01 | MOORE, CoCo | * | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 2-4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| 11 | JONES, Micah | * | 2-4 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 4-4 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| 23 | CHAPPELLE, Alexis | * | 1-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 24 | AUSTIN, Tierny | * | 10-21 | 1-4 | 0-4 | 4-7 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 37 |
| 33 | CAPOTOSTO, Ashley | * | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 |
| 15 | FINNIN, Valerie | – | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 20 | WENDT, Jessie | – | 4-11 | 1-6 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| 22 | HILL, Jazmin | – | 0-4 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 32 | BRANDT, Miranda | – | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 55 | WARFORD, Raven | – | 3-5 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 3-2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| TM | TEAM | – | – | – | – | 2-0 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Totals………….. | – | 26-66 | 2-11 | 13-22 | 20-30 | 50 | 19 | 67 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 8 | 200 | |
| 39.4% | 18.2% | 59.1% | ||||||||||||
| Team summary: | FG | 3FG | FT | |||||||||||
| 1st Half: | 10-29 | 0-3 | 2-2 | |||||||||||
| 34.5% | 0.0% | 100 % | ||||||||||||
| 2nd Half: | 16-37 | 2-8 | 11-20 | |||||||||||
| 43.2% | 25.0% | 55.0% | ||||||||||||
| Score by Periods | 1st | 2nd | Total | |
| Austin Peay | 42 | 35 | 77 | Record: (6-13, 3-3 OVC) |
| SIUE | 22 | 45 | 67 | Record: (5-14, 2-5 OVC) |
| Points in the paint-APSU 42,SIUE 40.Points off turnovers-APSU 26,SIUE 13. |
| 2nd chance points-APSU 10,SIUE 21.Fast break points-APSU 10,SIUE 4. |
| Bench points-APSU 39,SIUE 23. Score tied-3 times. Lead changed-1 time. |
| Last FG-APSU 2nd-05:26, SIUE 2nd-01:57. |
| Largest lead-APSU by 27 2nd-17:13, SIUE by 2 1st-19:02. |
| Officials: Jeff Cross, Erika Herriman, Jason SchmitzTechnical fouls: Austin Peay-None. SIUE-None.
Attendance: 647 |
