LAKELAND, Fla. — Florida Southern College women's basketball picked up a win over Davenport at home in their final game of the Terrace Hotel Christmas Classic by a score of 85-57 on Saturday at Jenkins Field House at the Streamline Sale Arena in Lakeland, Florida on Saturday afternoon.
"We got a lot of good experience, we played a lot of good basketball," said head coach
Betsy Harris. "It is just trying to get it together and finish it. The biggest thing is we haven't been showing effort every second of every minute of every quarter. I felt like tonight we finally did that. Everybody was going in for rebounds…whether we win or lose that's all I ask of them, just give effort and I can be happy with that because we can build on that."
Florida Southern improves to 4-6 overall and remains at 2-2 in the Sunshine State.
HOW IT HAPPENED
1st Quarter
- The Mocs opened up the scoring in the game with a layup from freshman Marissa Jenike off an assist from Paula Real.
- Marissa Jenike continued to add to the Moccasin lead followed by a basket by graduate student Whitney Jacob to put Florida Southern up by 4.
- After 2:37 of play, junior Ashley Shell scores her first basket of the game coming off the bench, bringing the Moccasins back to a four-point lead.
- Davenport took the lead for the first time during the game off a 3-pointer from Kenzie Wilkinson. Julia Jenike answered back for the Mocs with a 3-point jumper. Jenike then drew a foul to finish on both free throws.
- After a defensive rebound from Shell, Arielle Dabu was fouled on a fast break, sinking both free throws.
- Madlena Gerke drew a foul in the Mocs defensive end to put the Mocs up by 8 with two free throws with less than a minute left in the half.
- Mackenzie Steele added to Florida Southern's lead to end the quarter with the Mocs up by 10.
- After a quarter of perfect free throws, the Mocs were up by a score of 19-9.
2nd Quarter
- Real started off the quarter with a layup off a high pass from Jacob.
- Aubrey Burke scored a driving layup off a fast break assist from Gerke who had a steal in the Mocs defensive end.
- Real picked off a pass from Davenport's Scout Nelson leading to an offensive opportunity for Jacob to score a layup to put the Mocs up 25-9. Jacob would add to her point run with another layup assisted by Real.
- Dabu sank two consecutive 3-pointers, putting the Mocs up by 24 with 3:20 to go in the half. She added to her point scoring streak with a driving layup.
- Florida Southern ends the half with a 24-point lead, up 45-21.
3rd Quarter
- Florida Southern started off the third quarter strong, with Jacob scoring five points for the Mocs with a layup and a 3-pointer.
- Dabu continued her perfect shooting streak adding two with a pair of free throws off a Davenport technical foul.
- Julia Jenike had a steal in Davenport's defensive end, assisting a layup by Gerke.
- Sara Wohlgemuth had a driving assist to a layup by Julia Jenike to put the Mocs up 62-39 with 1:30 to go in the quarter.
- Steele sinks a free throw to finish the quarter for Florida Southern leading 63-39.
4th Quarter
- Jacob started the scoring for the Mocs for the second consecutive quarter with a layup assisted by the freshman Real.
- Gerke and Jacob both sank a pair of free throws to put the Mocs up 69-44.
- Sisters, Julia and Marissa Jenike both score layups to widen Florida Southern's lead to 27.
- Marte Moe came off the bench to score for the Mocs with a jump shot assisted by Chyna Bullen.
- Moe continued the scoring with a layup off an assist from Domenica Zamora.
- Zamora scored on a fast break off a breakout pass by Arriyanna Bracero.
- Moe scored another fast break layup off another pass from Bullen.
- Zamora finished the game for the Mocs making a pair of free throws.
- Florida Southern defeated Davenport by a score of 85-57.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
- Jacob led the way for the Mocs with 20 points and six rebounds.
- Dabu had 12 points, shooting 75% from the field, 100% on 3-point shots while going 4-for-4 from the line.
- Florida Southern was 15-for-16 on free throws, with Gerke, Jacob, Zamora, Dabu, and Julia Jenike all shooting 100% on free throws.
- The Mocs bench outscored the Panthers bench 40-27.
UP NEXT
Florida Southern will take an extensive break to enjoy the holiday and will return to action in George Jenkins Field House at Streamline Sale Arena on December 31. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m. against Rollins as the team jumps back into Sunshine State Conference action.
