MIAMI SHORES, Fla. — Florida Southern College's women's basketball team didn't give up, but a late run was not enough as the Mocs fell 61-55 on the road to Barry in the opening Sunshine State Conference game for both teams.
"We will get back to work on Monday to continue to get better," said head coach
Betsy Harris. "When you shoot the way we did and turn the ball over, you can't win many games."
Florida Southern (1-2) was led by redshirt junior
Ashley Shell and redshirt freshman
Sara Wohlgemuth with 13 points apiece.
Whitney Jacob was also in double-digits for the Mocs with 10 points.
HOW IT HAPPENED
1st Quarter
- Marte Moe had the opening basket of the game for Florida Southern putting the Mocs up 2-1 at 7:42.
- Both teams struggled shooting early with Barry going 1-for-6 and Florida Southern 2-for-7 halfway through the quarter
- Barry lived at the free-throw line, going 9-for-12 as the Mocs committed seven fouls in the first 10 minutes.
- Both teams turned the ball over six times apiece.
2nd Quarter
- Marissa Jenike opened the scoring with the Mocs' first 3-pointer of the game to make it 13-9.
- Turnovers continued to plague both teams as the Mocs finished with 13 and the Bucs had 11.
- Barry had 18 points off of turnovers in the half, including 12 in the quarter.
- Jacob found her scoring touch with six points in the quarter to go with a team-high seven rebounds.
- Florida Southern won the rebounding battle 20-17, with 10 of those coming on offense.
- Both teams found their scoring touch with Florida Southern 52.9 percent and Barry.
- Florida Southern had the only 3-pointers of the half with Jenike and Wohlgemuth having one apiece
- Barry finished the half with a dominant advantage at free-throw line, hitting 9 of 12, while Florida Southern went just 1 of 3.
- Barry led by as many as 11 at 33-22 before Florida Southern went on a 5-0 run to close out the half.
3rd Quarter
- Florida Southern cut the Barry lead to three twice early on a 3-pointer by Mackenzie Steele to make it 35-32 with 7:31 left and a lay-up by Jacob to make it 37-34 at 6:54.
- Barry took its largest lead of the game at 52-40 with 2:02 left in the quarter.
4th Quarter
- Barry took its largest lead of the game 61-44 with a 9-0 run with 2:33 left.
- Florida Southern went more than six minutes without scoring, going 0-for-11 from the field during that stretch.
- Wohlgemuth ended the Mocs' scoring drought with a free throw to make it 61-45 with 1:39 left.
- Wohlgemuth's 3-pointer with 1:07 left was the first Mocs basket since Shell made a lay-up with 7:27 left in the quarter.
- The Mocs finished on an 11-0 run to make it close at the end.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
- Jacob finished with a double-double, scoring 10 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
- Florida Southern forced 25 turnovers and scored 26 points off of its opponents' miscues.
- The Mocs finished with 18 offensive rebounds, nearly half of their 37 total boards.
- Florida Southern shot just 32.9 percent from the field.
UP NEXT
Florida Southern will open its portion of the Terrace Hotel Thanksgiving Classic with its first home game of the year at 2 p.m. on Friday against No. 21 Kentucky Wesleyan at Jenkins Field House.
