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Game Notes

GREENVILLE, N.C. – Eastern Kentucky University’s women’s basketball team will play in the Lady Pirate Invitational beginning Friday against Towson University. The event is being hosted by East Carolina University, where EKU Head Coach Chrissy Roberts spent six seasons as an assistant coach before taking over the Lady Colonel program.

Roberts will not coach against her former team. After facing Towson at 7 p.m. on Friday, Eastern Kentucky will take on Bethune-Cookman on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

In their last game, the Lady Colonels scored a season-best 58 points, shot a season-best 40 percent from the field, and set season-highs for assists and steals, but were done in by a season-high 32 turnovers in a 66-58 loss to Florida Atlantic on Saturday. Newcomer Talisha Davis led Eastern with a game-high 23 points. Junior Cherie White scored 11 and junior Nadia Mossong contributed seven points and a game-high 10 rebounds.

Eastern Kentucky shot 40 percent from the field, including 47.8 percent in the second half. The Lady Colonels had a season-high 10 assists and 11 steals, and out-rebounded FAU 37-30. Florida Atlantic outscored Eastern 29-8 off turnovers. The Owls shot 41.5 percent from the field, but just 23.1 percent from behind the three-point arc, the first time EKU held an opponent under 40 percent shooting from deep this season.

While the Lady Colonels have struggled to protect the basketball, Eastern has out-rebounded each of its first three opponents and has a plus-5.3 rebounding margin.

Towson is 2-2 on the season. The Tigers opened with a 79-42 loss to future EKU opponent West Virginia. TU picked up back-to-back wins over Winthrop and North Carolina A&T before losing on a last second shot to Maryland-Baltimore County on Tuesday.

Towson returns seven letter winners, including four starters, from last season’s 17-13 team. Among the returning starters is senior guard Shanae Baker-Brice. She earned first team All-CAA honors last year after averaging 17 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. This season, Baker-Brice leads the team in scoring (21.0 ppg) and also averages 4.5 boards per game.

Other returning starters include 6-foot-3 senior Katrina Wheeler (2008-09: 9.7 ppg, 8.4 rpg), senior Haliena Snowden (2008-09: 5.5 ppg, 3.4 rpg) and senior Kandace Davis (2008-09: 5.9 ppg, 6.8 rpg).

Bethune-Cookman dropped to 1-3 this season after a 75-57 loss to North Florida on Tuesday. All five starters return for BCU from last season’s 12-17 team. Junior 5-foot-9 guard Demetria Frank is the team’s top returning scorer. She averaged 14.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game a year ago. Junior 6-foot-1 forward Sarah Bolden averaged 11.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game. Point guard Jasmine Daniels contributed 3.4 assists per contest.

Jalisa Isaac, a 5-foot-9 junior guard, led the team with 19 points in the loss to North Florida. Euneshia Proctor had nine points and 12 boards. Frank scored 10 points. As a team, the Wildcats shot just 29 percent while allowing UNF to make nearly 50 percent of its shots.