December 17, 2005
Box Score
Carson, CA - The Toros would use a balanced scoring attack to keep the Texas A&M-Kingsville defense guessing all night long. Brittney Blankenship (Palmdale, CA/Palmdale HS) recorded her second double-double of the season with 14 points and a game high 11 rebounds to lead the Toros to a 54-43 women's basketball win. With the win the Toros have now won three games in a row, and improve to 5-2 on the season. While the visiting Javelinas fall to 3-6.
What a difference a day makes, the Toro offense that shot 52.1% last night and put up 95 points seemed no where to be found. CSUDH would stumble out the blocks, turning the ball over multiple times and not being able to find the bottom of the net to begin the game. The Javelinas, however, would match the Toros slow start and the two teams would stumble along together over the first nine minutes of play.
The two teams would begin to tighten up their play, trading baskets over the next five minutes, with the Toros only able to build a small lead. With a little less than six minutes to play Blankenship would go to work, scoring five straight points to help the Toros maintain their slight lead.
CSUDH would use a 10-3 run over the last four minutes of the half to go into the locker room with a 27-18 lead.
In the second half the Toros would spread the ball around, using baskets by six different players on six trips down the floor capped off by a layup by Ree Browne (Torrance, CA/South Torrance HS) to extend their lead to 21 with just under 14 minutes left.
From that point on the Toros seemed to put things on cruise control, and would watch TAMKU slowly chip away at the lead. Anglea Trotter would cut the once 21-point Toro lead to just 10 after a free throw with two and a half minutes left in the game. However, the comeback seemed to be too little too late, as game would slowly come to an end with the Toros using every last second on the shot clock in their last few possessions to keep the ball out of the hands of the Javelinas.
For TAMUK, Trotter would garner game high scoring honors with 15 points and six rebounds, while Latasha Davis would also score in double figures with 11 points.
The Toros would not have anyone else in double figures besides Blankenship; however, they would have eight other players contribute scoring to the offense. Tameka Blue (Watsonville, CA/Santa Cruz HS) and Jessica Liang (Alhambra, CA/Mark Keppel HS) lead the rest of the scoring, chipping in nine and eight points respectively.
The Toros will be in action in two weeks, Wednesday, December 28th as they travel to Fullerton, CA to take on Hope International University, tip off scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Then they will return home Friday, January 6th to resume CCAA play against Cal State Bakersfield, tip off at 5:30 p.m.
